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Forums - Nintendo - How will Wii counter Natal, 360+, MS Moneyhatting Ways and Press Bias?

Stefan.De.Machtige on 05 June 2009

This is the wii generation and was already so a year ago. What MS and Sony do or don't do matters either little or nothing to Nintendo.



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Showertea on 05 June 2009

When was XBox+ announced? Or are you just pulling things out of your... moneyhat?

About the press, remember that before the Wii and PS3 was released, the press everywhere was saying "Wii's going to kill Nintendo and sell at most 15 million, PS3's gonna kill the 360 and sell 200 million at least." The press doesn't mean anything. People are gonna buy the games that are more fun, not the games that the games media adores.



Wii has more 20 million sellers than PS3 has 5 million sellers.

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Keep_the_change on 05 June 2009
leo-j said:
Brainslug said:
They don't have to - they have a 30 million user lead - probably 40 million by the time Natal comes out.

They have less than a 20 million user lead.

We cant really predict the future

But we can predict sales. Do you expect the Wii not to largely widden the gap even more?



txrattlesnake on 05 June 2009
Showertea said:
When was XBox+ announced? Or are you just pulling things out of your... moneyhat?

About the press, remember that before the Wii and PS3 was released, the press everywhere was saying "Wii's going to kill Nintendo and sell at most 15 million, PS3's gonna kill the 360 and sell 200 million at least." The press doesn't mean anything. People are gonna buy the games that are more fun, not the games that the games media adores.


http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=75469

 

The way I'm reading th opening post is that 360+ will be out in 2010 probably with Natal as its primary control scheme and then the next nextbox will be out in 2013 or 2014.



Sardauk on 05 June 2009
Showertea said:
When was XBox+ announced? Or are you just pulling things out of your... moneyhat?

About the press, remember that before the Wii and PS3 was released, the press everywhere was saying "Wii's going to kill Nintendo and sell at most 15 million, PS3's gonna kill the 360 and sell 200 million at least." The press doesn't mean anything. People are gonna buy the games that are more fun, not the games that the games media adores.

This.



 

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the_bloodwalker on 05 June 2009

All nintendo has to do is to keep making great motion controlled games



Arius Dion on 05 June 2009

Lets see who wins the holiday season.



Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:


If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.

Xen on 05 June 2009

Nintendo.

Let's see who will be second.



txrattlesnake on 05 June 2009
Sardauk said:
Showertea said:
When was XBox+ announced? Or are you just pulling things out of your... moneyhat?

About the press, remember that before the Wii and PS3 was released, the press everywhere was saying "Wii's going to kill Nintendo and sell at most 15 million, PS3's gonna kill the 360 and sell 200 million at least." The press doesn't mean anything. People are gonna buy the games that are more fun, not the games that the games media adores.

This.

 

     Actually, that's not the way it was.  If you opened up any newspaper prior to the release of Wii and PS3 (especially after the PS3's $599.99 price point was announced), there were many articles saying the PS3 was doomed to be the next Dreamcast and that Wii was really set to take off.



Dante G on 05 June 2009

Until they have compelling software for natal it won't be a threat at all. If they manage to pull something like wii sports and sell it bundled with the console including natal for less than $250 then they'd have a chance at being threatening. If something like that happened I think a Wii price drop to $200 and new colors would be enough to counter microsoft.