| buzzard said: Releasing a console to the market that can't compete graphically with the other two is a much bigger risk than any other taken in any console generation considering that the first thing that you perceive about a game is the graphics. Motion controls of course were another big risk, a portable with two screens and a touch screen was another big risk. Sony may have sold at a loss even with a very high price but they were an already established name that lead the market for two generations with a console that is filled with features, If N's idea didn't ring with the general public it would have been a complete disaster, cheap components or no. |
I really don't know if I should say that Nitendo took a risk, I honestly think that they were pretty clever. When I heard about Wii, I already knew that I would not buy one and I am still not buying one.By the way I am a playstation Fan. But let us think about it, anyone of us that was around in the SNES era who are now PS fan there is no way we will get back to Nintendo, maybe XBOX, but no Nintendo cause most of the PS fans I know think that Nintendo is for kids. So Nintendo did not have to focus that much on graphics because he had already lost most of his followers. They had to conenctrate their products for the new generation to come. I honestly think that they outsmarted both Microsoft and SONY who keept on making console and games for that same 2000 generation when Nintendo concentrate on the 2006 generation. They oustsmarted both Microsoft and SONY in my opinion
