Gameplayer's James Cottee looks into how the current sub-prime dilemma will affect the games industry, suggesting that the family focused Nintendo products could cop the fall out.
"In other words, a US recession could kill the Wii."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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I enjoyed both Rush games, I did think the action was sometimes too fast to see what was coming up in terms of hazards though, which meant replaying the same stage a bunch of times, other than that they were enjoyable, good special stages, 3D sections and bosses for the most part.
DS is one of the best consoles of all time. Such a rich library of software
Zelda were all glorious on it.
i think i read more than enough articles about how the Wii will fail. and i'm positively sure that what ever trend hardware sales will follow for the first 3 months of 2008 it'll keep for the rest of the year. and as far as i know the Wii is still outselling other systems on weekly bases.
what i'm trying to say is that the wii outselling both the 360 and ps3 won't have a drastic effect on any of them. and developers know each hardware's market and wii continue releasing the appropriate game for it.
i don't care if the wii ends up selling 200 million systems. however i do hope ps3 & 360 hit a much larger install base than what they already have so developers can support them with more games.
Not that i'm a Nintendo fanboy or anything but if anyone is going to be affected by the whole subprime mess it will be the higher priced PS3 and 360. The Wii being at $250 and not requiring a new t.v.doesn't have as much to worry about as the other two consoles.
Riiiiiight. Financially hard times will hurt the cheapest console with the most room to make price cuts. Game sales for the Wii are "embarrassing," but sales for the PS3--which has sold half as much software--are just fine. NPD data shows an attach rate of 3.86 for the Wii and 4.01 for the PS3, a 4% difference. Even admittedly weak third party sales on the Wii outpace the PS3 by 33%.
This guy is delusional.
clowns...recession would hurt that ps3 and sony the most.... nothing will stop wii from claiming the top...
The logic behind the short blurb I just read just baffles me.
In short, no, for GOD SAKES no, the subprime market will not hurt the Wii. Everything else in electronics will die off before the Wii ever does.
If anything, economic woes should have killed off the HDTV and blu ray/PC/PS3/iphone/(insert other expensive electronics). But their sales have been just fine.