Okay, first off, nintendo does not have as wide a variety of game genres as the Playstation.
Let's see...Racing? Check. Adventure? Check. Action? Check. Survival Horror? Shmup? Party? Platformer? Fighting? Puzzle? Music? First Person Shooter? Check. Hmm, looks like Nintendo has a "wide variety of game genres" to me.
While they try to make Nintendo more of a game system for everyone, Sony has been there, and is known for it. Nintendo has for many years been branded as a system for younger gamers, many in the range of 7-17. However the PS has a much wider fan base, not only from young gamers but from older veterans, this is where the numbers come in.With a wider variety of gamers you have more people buying your units.
Your point is somewhat valid, but this time around Nintendo is aiming for a much larger base, not just gamers. Take a look at games like Brain Age, Nintendogs, or Tetris. These types of games will get even the non-gamers to play. When you broaden your horizons like that, sales are bound to rise. This has proven true; just look at the DS. It's been selling millions more in Japan than the PSP and here in the US the DS is pretty neck-and-neck with the PSP.
True the Wiimote, however idiotic sounding it is, is a completely unique design, but that is it's major fault. With a new style controller many people are going to have to learn how to play all over again,
Many journalists and reviewers have said that the games shown at E3 weren't that hard to learn at all, save for Red Steel.
and unlike the sensory in the PS controller, which is easily controlled through the shifting of weight between hands, the wiimote is much more awkward to maneuver, and much too small a design for comfort.
Could I borrow your time machine? I wanna see how it works, too.
There is nothing the Wiimote has that the Playstation controller doesn't,
Actually, there is. The PS3's controller can only sense yaw, pitch, and roll. The Wiimote not only does this, but it also detects where it is in 3d space, so the PS3 can't simulate a baseball bat or sword jab as well as the Wiimote. Oh, and the PS3 doesn't have rumble because Sony got sued by another company because they used the exact same technology. The nunchuck attatchment does all the motion sensing the PS3 can do, and the attatchments aren't limited to the Nunchuck. There are many other possibilities for attatchments.
and a unique but clumsy design is only going to discourage many veteran gamers.
I consider myself to be somewhat of a veteran gamer, and I'm pumped about the Wii. Many other veterans (who aren't fanboys...) I know both on and offline are pumped as well.
It's another unnecissary modification Nintendo has made to their systems over the years to boost sales.
...What?
Next is the graphics, I play a video game and rate it on it's overall appeal, not on gameplay or graphics alone. If a Wii is lacking in graphics, I'm going to be disinclined to explore what it has to offer in gameplay, when compared to a 360 or a PS3.
...Yeah. That just screams "contradiction". If something is lacking in graphics, you're gonna move on and assume that the game sucks? That's some good judgement.
Over the years, sales of systems are as so:
1-Playstation 2 (with consistent sales rising)
2-Xbox (steady sales during holidays)
3-Gamecube ( sales linger, but not consistent)
This leads us to believe, following history, that Microsoft and sony will continue to head the industry, with Nintendo holding on thanks to a few popular game series.
Guy from 1995: Guys, there's no way Sony will beat Sega and Nintendo. They've led the industry, and they always will.
However after E3, there is much much more for Sony gamers to look forward to with God of War II, Final Fantasy XII, Fantasy versus XIII, Dirge of Cerberus, SIlent Hill 5, and many others.
Um, did you even SEE E3? People RAN to the Nintendo booth so they wouldn't have to wait in the four hour line that had to be shut down because it began to take up part of Sony's booth.
Nintendo won't die off, but don't expect it to outdo the true leaders of the industy: Sony and Microsoft.
Guy from 1995: Sony won't die off, but don't expect it to outdo the true leaders of the industry: Sega and Nintendo.
