Nintendo announces 4.5 million Wii consoles sold worldwide

[Rangers]

I really think the Wii sells on this paradigm: It sounds really fun in concept. A concept laypeople, and women, can easily understand.

I just dont think it probably delivers on that promise. The thing is it doesn't need to, people buy it because the concept sounds really neat in the abstract, even though what I hear is that it doesn't really deliver (aka, accurate motion sensing).

 

[TheChefO]

(aka, accurate motion sensing).

That's the frustrating thing. It CAN be accurate. In fact in the menu setup it is perfect. Tracking movement in the baseball game(wiisports) is 100% as you can see the character wave the bat mirroring your movement. But for some odd reason not everything is as accurate as this, even in Wii sports. Hopefully it is just a hickup which will get fixed soon. Good thing is by having it online enabled they may be able to patch past games with more acurate tracking.

 

[Teasy]

I'm still a doubter. I admit it. I don't think the Wii can possibly be the meat and potatoes console for the 18-30 year old males that buy most of the games. I just don't see it. No driving sims, no deep RPGs, no stellar action titles, no online offerings, no big FPS titles, no sandbox games, etc... There just isn't enough there IMO.

Its really silly to base an opinion like that on the game catalog of a console that's only been out for 3 months. Did 360 have great games in all those genre's at launch? (or even any of them), does PS3?, of course not.

Right now Wii has games in most of the genre's you mentioned (racing, action,fps ect and other stuff like RPG's and online covered in the near future). Those games aren't "stellar" but you can hardly expect lots of great games in many genre's this close to launch.

Oh and BTW, what does sandbox refer to?.. multi player games? If so Wii had that well covered at launch.

Maybe I'm wrong and people don't care about GTAIV, Halo, GT, MGS, FF, etc... but I wouldn't bet on it.

Again you seem to be assuming that things never change, if Wii sells that number of systems it will get the GTA's, MGS and FF ect

It is a difeerent animal, though.

Yeah of course, its very deliberately different, but that doesn't mean its sales can't be compared to other consoles.

 

[max-pain]

WOW
VG Charts number = Nintendo Announcement

 

[Flux]

That should do it!

beta testing?

 

[Flux]

Wii will take Japan by storm, it has been designed by Nintendo for that, looking at the demographic trends and interest of the japanese population. That alones guarantee it better sales than GC.

I'm not sure that the West is ready to ignore the other consoles to the point of letting Wii rule the market.

Of course, Wii can become the 2nd console of everybody, but even i doubt that, most people do not have more than one console, and of course a lot of people are interested by the Wii, but a lot of people have yet to sit and try it. So interest is just hype, IMO.

As a long time Nintendo fan (boy), I'm quite puzzled by the Wii. I had to have it just to play Zelda or Mario, but for the first time, I really think my Nintendo console will not be my primary console.

Its been out for less than 3 months cut nintendo some slack. They are still pulling themselves out of the hole that n64 was...

GC didn't succeed because developers hated nintendo for n64 and Playstation was were the money was at.

I think with Wii and DS nintendo has gain back some credibility that they lost with n64.

Wii will be my primarily console + a Xbox1(Marvel vs Capcom 2,Capcom vs SNK2,Streetfighter Anniversary,Guilty Gear XX,Bloody Roar Extreme, collection on Xbox live) and PC.(Unreal Tournament,Gunz,various mmos)

Xbox360 and PS3 don't have the games I want so I won't buy them.

 

[jandar]

While nothing to do with the industry, I was a hardcore gamer until a couple of years ago, till after Unreal, UT, H-L and Q4 hype. Very, very few interesting things happened since. And Wii is the first totally new experience in years, so for me it was a clear thing I'll be getting one. And I really love it.

I love the Wii.
I was a hardcore gamer from the NES days (stayed up 3 straight days to complete FF3 on the SNES) and onto Quake, Quake 2,etc....

I stopped right before Quake 4.

I have a 2 year old son, goto business school 2 nights a week, have a wife and work full time with some occasional overnight traveling.

The Wii is the perfect game system for people like me, as well as the non gamers, etc.
For those that still knock it, keep laughing, you are not the reason games are made, you are but a small % of a companies overall revenues......

 

[Flux]

I love the Wii.
I was a hardcore gamer from the NES days (stayed up 3 straight days to complete FF3 on the SNES) and onto Quake, Quake 2,etc....

I stopped right before Quake 4.

I have a 2 year old son, goto business school 2 nights a week, have a wife and work full time with some occasional overnight traveling.

The Wii is the perfect game system for people like me, as well as the non gamers, etc.
For those that still knock it, keep laughing, you are not the reason games are made, you are but a small % of a companies overall revenues......

Yeah I had my first NES back in 89 it was great.The SNES and Genesis were the best consoles ever made(followed by N64 and PS2).

Well I think that Xbox360 will be popular and sell very well to the hardcore gamers. Playstation 3 will flop because of lack of games,poor developers support,(like PS2 and PS1),expensive BR-R($50? come on 2 DVD9's cost $3 and compression isn't a bad idea) and high price.

The Hardcore fans will still think Wii is a fluke until it outsells 360. Then they will see why the DS and Wii are selling well. While all the hardcore gamers are playing thier 360 and some of them playing PS3 everyone else thats not a hardcore gamer will be buying and playing the Wii. Most normal people can't memorize combo chains,strats,techniques and resets(MvC2,GGXX) much less play with 15 button controllers and having 1-8 frame timing(streetfighter 3 parry) or know the right counters in the right situation(Soul Caliber).

Let everyone else in the action we have ignored them too long.

 

[Fu3lFr3nzy]

Playstation 3 will flop because of lack of games,poor developers support,(like PS2 and PS1),expensive BR-R($50? come on 2 DVD9's cost $3 and compression isn't a bad idea) and high price.

Hooray for premature conclusions

Do we have to go through this crap again?

 

[Flux]

Hooray for premature conclusions

Do we have to go through this crap again?

I am going off what is happening now.

 

[Rangers]

Uh, are we aware that clicking through the Digg link leads to vgcharts.org, and no official statement from Nintendo exists?

vgcharts, I grudgingly admit, is usually fairly conservative though, and probably close to correct.

 

[inefficient]

Uh, are we aware that clicking through the Digg link leads to vgcharts.org, and no official statement from Nintendo exists?

vgcharts, I grudgingly admit, is usually fairly conservative though, and probably close to correct.

It was mentioned in the 4th post here. But who needs facts when your gut tells you it is right!

Vgcharts ranks very high on the internet truthiness scale.

 

[Rangers]

It was mentioned in the 4th post here. But who needs facts when your gut tells you it is right!

Vgcharts ranks very high on the internet truthiness scale.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but their numbers are fairly conservative and reasonably accurate estimations..compared to some of these sites floating around (cough nexgenwars cough)

I dont like using them in place of hard numbers either though. They are not the same as real numbers..