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Could the days of the $400 Playstation 3 be numbered?
So says financial analyst Michael Pachter, who predicted this week that Sony will trim the price of its cheapest Playstation 3 pack to a "more affordable" $299 in April, and that an Xbox 360 price cut will follow by June.
Sony forgot the cardinal rule of gaming; it’s not about how powerful your console is, it’s about what exceptional games are exclusive to it.
Proof: The Nintendo Wii has sold nearly as many units worldwide as the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined on the strength of Nintendo’s excellent and exclusive first party software.
Sony forgot the cardinal rule of gaming; it’s not about how powerful your console is, it’s about what exceptional games are exclusive to it.
Proof: The Nintendo Wii has sold nearly as many units worldwide as the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined on the strength of Nintendo’s excellent and exclusive first party software.
Not really. The success of WII is due to the particularly niche they carved out - cheap machine for the casual gamer. Exclusive games is beside the point. Actually WII software is approaching "shovelware" content.
Worldwide sales of Wii exclusives to date: Wii Fit: 14.5 million Mario Kart Wii: 14.1 million Super Smash Bros. Brawl: 8.5 Million The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: 5.1 million not counting the additional 1.6 million it’s sold on the GameCube. I don't think anyone would call this game "shovelware".
Even more amazing is the fact that Nintendo has sold ¾ as many copies of Wii Fit as Sony has sold PS3 consoles and that game has only been out a little more than 12 months!
Worldwide sales of Wii exclusives to date: Wii Fit: 14.5 million Mario Kart Wii: 14.1 million Super Smash Bros. Brawl: 8.5 Million The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: 5.1 million not counting the additional 1.6 million it’s sold on the GameCube. I don't think anyone would call this game "shovelware".
no of course not, you are listing best sellers. But this does not disprove nor debate the points of my comment - WII is succesful not because they have exclusive software (although that's an "effect" of the WII "cause") but because they sell games geared to the casual gamers. WII fits and Super Smash Brothers didn't fit the gamer profile of an Xbox or PS3, they weren't designed or marketed that way.
Enter "wii" and "shovelware" into a search engine. You will see it's becoming an issue to Nintendo.
Nintendo consoles have always been geared towards “casual gamers”. Since when has a plump mustached plumber, giant gorilla and a menagerie of other zany characters been considered hardcore? Not in my lifetime.
Yes, sadly the Wii has become home to some mindless shovelware but Nintendo’s first party exclusives are generally top quality and that’s why people love and keep buying the Wii.
Sony’s problem and the reason why they may lower the price of the PS3 is because there isn’t any software that strongly compels people to buy the system. The best thing that I hear people ever say about it is, “it sure is a nice Blu Ray player”.
Well, I think at this point Sony has plenty of games. Exclusives will help but really the issue is it's a complex multi-media machine with features that people are not willing to pay for. Nintendo consumers are not interested in the latest hightech machine with built in blue-ray, DVD upscaler, built in wifi, internet capability, 1080p video, and true HD sound cabilities. Sony's competitor is not really Nintendo, but XBOX, and even then their machine makes Xbox look like a Activision box from the 70's. They haven't designed the machine to compete with a simple device like the WII, either hardware wise or software wise. No one buys a Sony to play a WII type game, they want the epic multimillion dollars and years in the making God of War or Killzone or Metal Gear. But I think they've learned that the video game market is more than killing zombies and multiplayer fragging in high-definition dolby 5.1
I would be really suprised that they cut the game price in April. Maybe that's meant to be in conjunction with the release of Killzone 2? or Gods of War 3? Otherwise I wouldn't expect it to be until E3 in the fall or for the next xmas season.
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