Skaw said:Banking on exlusives that are upto a year away is an awful idea. You have to hope your product survives that long in the first place.
chpal said:Well, the Wii is also banking on its first party games, mainly Metroid and SSB and Galaxies. As far as i know, one list of games coming out this summer for the wii looks very bleak.
Actually, Nintendo makes a profit off every console sold, so they'll be in the black significantly faster than Microsoft or Sony could every dream.Alyada said:While they are banking on those games as system movers, the Wii already has a solid line-up of games as is. Of course, the big system seller for launch was Zelda, and it went like hotcakes. Financially, Nintendo doesn't loose very much for every Wii produced, so their profits are so much higher than anything Sony or Microsoft can produce.
Not to bash Sony or Microsoft, how long did it take for Gears of War to come out for the 360 after launch? If anything is an indication, the last system war parrallels this one pretty tightly. There just aren't any games for these systems yet. In terms of advantage, the 360 has the biggest so far, considering it's been out for a little while.
In terms of Wii vs Ps3, while the Ps3 is a hardware giant, the Wii has shown us that gamers are looking for innovation and fun rather than pretty graphics and 1080p resolution.
I mean, I could've bought a PS3 about a month ago. In fact, I still have the funds to buy one now. Will I? No. It'll collect dust and I can't play Guitar Hero II on it. >_>;
Skaw said:And Alyada, The 360 has had a lot of great games leading up to Gears. Gears was just a smash hit, which is why it's clamoured about so much. It sold a million units pretty swiftly.
I've seen PS3's advertised in a few newspaper ads already(in a major US city no less), if they were really moving they wouldn't need to waste money on an advertisement.
Elemmire said:mocking the PS3 is the new "cool thing" to do for gamersand people are sheep, even people I know who bought a PS3 and enjoy it (at least resistance.. lol.. since honestly, no other good game for it right now) I've heard mock it. It's sad. Hell, it's not just the PS3 but sony in general, there are SO MANY here that mock sony even though they own a sony system of some sorts and have tons of games for it and play it often.