Fortune: How Wii Won

funkysolo - 935 days 10 hours ago

I'm sick of hearing about the wii, where do these people live in a remote island, I can go to any store and find the wii. I think is stupid fanboys editors that keep hyping the system more that what it really is a last gen system

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hfaze - 935 days 9 hours ago

Let's face it, they got some big hits with Wii Sports and Wii Play, but how long are they going to be able to keep the "casual gamer" locked in?

Hardcore gamers are the ones that will jump on the latest game title, generate the most sales per user, and basically be the bread and butter keeping the money flowing in to the companies putting out the games that appeal to the hardcore gamer crowd...

The casual gamer crowd is a bit more fickle... They aren't as likely to keep buying games for it (especially when you historically get a boatload of crappy games on Nintendo's systems), and they're not the type that will lookup reviews on games before they buy. How many times of buying an absolute craptastic games for $50 a pop will it take to turn off the casual gamer from the Wii?

I've always complained about Nintendo holding back technology. The last truly advanced system they put out was the N64 (a SGI Indigo workstation, sans hard disk and optical drive, in a funny looking casing). They may have hit it off big at first, but how long is this crazy momentum going to carry on without AAA titles?

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Babylonian - 935 days 9 hours ago

"While game consoles typically attract youngish males with an antisocial streak............"

Fvck you asshole, we gamers all have our social lives. I't not like we play games all day long. And videogames became mainstream in early 2000s, it's not like Nintendo opened a whole new area. The gamescene began in the 70s and actually got mainstream in the 90s, but the real big mainstream is in 2000s. What a monkeyfvck this guy is.

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funkysolo - 935 days 8 hours ago

Don't you have to out sell your competitors before you can be crown king? Wii may be selling well but there games are not. The wii has a 2 to 1 attach rate and the xbox has a 6 to 1, so who's doing better, I would go with the one selling the most games as that would make me as a developer want to makes games for a system that sells games. The wii can sell 50 million units and still end up losing if the only games people play on it are wii sports and wii play. So to the morons out there defending nintendo for offering you a gamecube with a gadget and overcharging you for it, buy a real next gen system.

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Maddens Raiders - 935 days 8 hours ago

from Sidar and ITR, but I think this is akin to George W. Bush declaring "Mission Accomplished" to major combat in Iraq on deck of the U.S.S. Nimitz no less.

I.E. - good job Nintendo early on, but what about the long run?

Cheers

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Dr Pepper - 935 days 4 hours ago

"Videogame controllers generally feature a bewildering array of buttons"

"While game consoles typically attract youngish males with an antisocial streak"

This guy really doesn't know what he's talking about. I wasn't aware that the wii "won" (we are just getting started in this console war), I also heard the average age of a gamer was around 30-35 (What age did he imply by "youngish males"?). Antisocial streak? Real stereotypical and unprofessional.

Also, the wii isn't that hard to find. All I would have to do is drive 45 min. to an hour outside of the city to a small town and there will be plenty (there were three wii consoles and two playstation 3s...two months (or so) after launch).

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Uganda64 - 935 days 3 hours ago

Funny, Gamecube had an issue with this, same with N64, but Dualshocks were just fine for the amount they had. Nintendo f***ed up and Nintendo had to fix it.

Also, its very common knowledge that in most cases, once something in a small market gets on a lot of mainstream magazines, its reached the peak of popularity, and will decline. (Apple & iPod made it but they were in the huge music market, not the smaller gaming market - in terms of numbers of people)
Hopefully we see this Wii fad end soon.
Also, they are available in stores. In Oceania, they're so unwanted, people have to bundle them with games and sell them for <250. Guess they caught on.

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-_-_-_-_-_-_- - 935 days ago

I think Wii is not a competition to PS3 and X360 at all. It's more likely a competition to PS2.

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PS360WII - 934 days 19 hours ago

This artical is NOT about the "war" it's about how a piece of electronics that is can't really be compaired to the PS3 or 360 made money from day one and posted a hugh profit of money. Wii won in that regards. MS still is in the red and will be for years, sony just posted a loss* (I put an * in there cuz it wasn't really a loss just not as big of a profit as last year) So if you would make a few billion off a new console in 6 months would you say you won or would you say you lost?

Once again this artical has nothing to do with the 'war' but it has everything to do with; money you invested - cost of production = profit and lots of it.

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