I agree, the percentage markup is bad argument weak, I should never have made it in the first place and we'll leave it at that.
I've been gaming a looooong time, (since coleco and intellivision), and I've never seen the response as positive for the Wii except for maybe the original nintendo. While much of the statements are anecdotal, I don't think you have to be a genius to see that the DS and now the Wii have turned the eye of the nongamer. In clinic I'll walk into a patients room and see a 60 year old woman playing on her DS. There is no denying the DS has gone beyond the traditional gamers. Thus far(while a small population) I know of 3 girls that bought a Wii at launch for themselves to play. I know small population sample. I'm not trying to come up w/ percentages, my point is that Nintendo is expanding the market beyond traditional gamers. The fact that not even one person out of 300 in a video game heavy dorm kept a ps3 at launch is disconcerting. I'm just stating that market penetration due to a number of factors is slow, and you cannot deny that. The lack of launch systems largely contributed to that.
I just got back from a Residency interview and the director of the program noted that I liked video games in my interests box along with science fiction. He further went to comment.... "What systems do you play?" I stated "I just got a ps3 but sold it, but I have the new nintendo system. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it, The Nintendo wii." Right after I said Wii, his eyes lit up. "NO WAY, you got a WII!! I normally don't play video games, my son has an xbox, but I Was thinking about getting him a Wii, and Kinda wanted to play myself." I then went on to talk about the controls etc. and how it was a lot of fun. This is a guy who is in his mid 40's, has more then enough money as he is a the Director pediatric residency so getting a ps3 off ebay would not be a problem, but when I said ps3, he didn't even blink, but I Was in shock at his reaction to the wii. So here I am in the middle of an interview that could shape where I live for the next 3 years, and we're talking about the new nintendo system. It's just a continual onslaught of people interested in the wii, people you would never have expected. This isn't just me either, I can give examples for days of whom I've interacted with and heard other people interact with that would traditionally not play a game, but will play the wii, but that's for another time and place.
It's just highly accessible. I really hope the ps3 wins thw ar, as I love my ps2, and want to see the same calliber of exclusive games, the Wii just has the momentum right now. While standing around target, eb, and walmart's game sections is also not a good representative portion of the population, Mom's, gamers, and kid's all are amazed at the Wii. The number of times I've heard from a kid or parent, or gamer "The ps3 has nice graphics, but I want a wii." Is actually really scary.
Furthermore, for a larger representative base, THAT IS STILL NOT SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE BUT 50,000-100,000 LARGE, hop over to gamefaqs.com. polls. The wii is trumping all in virtually all polls, at least from an interest stand point.
Also the Wii has the positive press momentum. It's being featured on GMA and other morning news shows w/ how user friendly, etc. and on toys r' us hot list for the year. The ps3 only received the Launch hype and nothing after that. Plus all the negative hype about how it shipped halfbaked.
You go into any gaming store, like eb, and all the employees are pushing the 360 or wii for xmas, and you've got an uphill battle for sony onthe store front as well.
I agree these arguments have holes left and right in them. I'm just stating my general feel. I myself am mindboggled at the what I am beginning to consider the Wii phenomenon. I believe the ps3 will win, just in a much closer race then anticipated, and sony has overestimated the general populations willingness to pay for a game system. Many rich families will buy it for their kids, but most of america ain't rich, and many parent just tell their kids no. The DS took the world by storm w/ it's user friendly interface, and many DS u sers that are non traditional gamers are going to the Wii next.
Here's the Sony, and that they hopefully know what they're doing. I think Nintendo really had the right idea by launching after sony. They have a lot more fight in them than I gave them credit for.
Now if only MGS4, heavenly sword, and lair, FFXIII were out..... Then it'd be a whole nother ball game....... Cuz that's when the ps3 will truly shine, and wake up from it's slumber.
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. Yes, this is very isolated and probably the opposite of most people's stories, but it just chapped me a bit as it reminded me of all the times I had been in TRU or EB or wherever and saw people talked out of getting Gamecubes by the staff (in favor of either PS2 or Xbox). Of course it was not like they had either in stock (though, anecdotally speaking, I can find PS3 controllers just about anywhere but not any for the Wii).
When did you sell your ps3?
