Now that we see that with just a price cut (not even a redesign or a cut that finally made it affordable, just more affordable than before) the Wii has had quite a boost from that. Not as big as the PS3, but see the aforementioned points.

Now we have to wait to see the sales after this, but I think I can say that IGN guy was wrong when he claimed the price cut would not help the Wii.

First of all, this is NOT trying to ressurect that other thread. That was focusing on his claim of no worthwhile games. This is about his conclusion, which that other thing was merely used to support it.

But I will say that since it is just his opinion and not somethig objectively true (the main arguments there were about the appropriateness of the comment), it means that his conclusion of the Wii being doomed is faulty. It's just his opinion of the games, and even its tech.

Yet the real reason he is wrong is he refuses to see what made the Wii appealing. This comes from most of the "hardcore" dismissing the Wii. They likely didn't even see why it was a hit in the first place. So they just see how they look at the Wii, and assume they speak for the mainstream.

The mainstream does not wear baseball caps backwards. That isn't a snark. That kind of style is an urban thing, so people like him imitating it shows a desparate need to be "cool". Thus they can't see the value in the Wii because it doesn't make them feel important (thus having more gamers not like them dimishes their importance).

The mainstream doesn't need to have their egos stroked for a game. They just want to have fun. They don't feel any dimished because they have round people playing tennis, not highly detailed space marine shooting bad guys into blood splatters.

People do care about this new price. In this economy, it's just simple sense. Perhaps if Nintendo hadn't stumbled with their big games last holiday season (the mainsteam didn't care about Wii Music because they didn't see a value in it, not because of the E3 presentation), they wouldn't need this, but the point is that people are going for the Wii again. That guy's opinions won't change that. He doesn't speak for the mainstream.

I'm laughing at the Invisible Walls guys myself.

Why? What did they say about this?

LOL I forgot about that idiot on IGN.

Hope he's enjoying that crow...

i honestly didnt expect much from the price cut. i didnt really see it advertised much, being the main reason.

After the PS3 slim and price drop were officially announced, The Invisible Walls Sony douche basically went on a rant against the Wii and said that he hopes that every Wii owner will now pick up a "real" gaming system, aka the PS3.  But it wasn't just him... that Invisible Walls episode was basically a 30 minute PS3 infomercial... every commentator was having orgasms about the PS3 slim and Uncharted 2 lol!

Well, Reggie gave that interview on CBC.  That's kind of a big deal  

Something tells me he'll only care about this week's Wii sales not matching up to the PS3 Slim's launch sales, and think it proves his point.

To make a long story short - Wii is doomed this holiday season, and regular crap like that.

x2 bump WW is nice for Wii, I was kinda expecting it will be close or a little over DS first week following price cut. But at this point I'd like to see how sales are going to hold up before claiming that price cut had a singificant effect.

Linkage please.