Topic: Wii Life Span

[Spak-Spang]

Adrock:  He was being sarcastic.

However, Nintendo could be lying to itself with this expand the market business strategy.  We are going to move into the future and see if we can truly turn non gamers into at least casual gamers, buying 3-4 games a year.  If they don't buy games then it is a waste sell of a Wii.

[Ceric]

Well not a total waste.  They still made like 50 bucks.

[Ian Sane]

"I could see us moving back to that in two generations...if we haven't moved to straight download by then."

I personally don't see downloads as the future, at least not as the only option.  There is a certain security involved with owning a physical copy.  You own it.  These days companies are trying to get it so we just rent everything.  That's a scary idea so at least until those who were alive before the internet became mainstream have died I think physical copies will exist.  Plus removing the physical copy removes the collector's nature of it all.  And a download only model is more technical and doesn't appeal as much to the older generations that have lived the majority of their life in a world without the internet.  With Nintendo targeting non-gamers a download only model seems too hardcore, or at least it is in the time frame we're talking about.

[Ceric]

Agree.  I doubt we'll see full download until are parents generation is mostly dead or Super High Speed Wireless Internet is free and covers the world.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

With Manhunt 2 being bann-hammered in the UK, it's set to make a big splash in AMERIKA.

Wii's life spam is secured.

[Adrock]

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Adrock: He was being sarcastic.

I considered that, but the PS2 comment certainly threw me off.

[Chozo Ghost]

If games were downloadable only then expect to start seeing games with various sorts of restrictions imposed on them. The digital game may expire after so many plays, or after a certain period of time and no longer be usable, requiring you to pay again if you want to play more.

Plus, even with broadband it would take a very long time to download games that are the size of a DVD or (heaven forbid) Blu-ray!

[Kairon]

Yeah, I'm lazy and half-luddite. I also like me my physical copies IF AT ALL possible... just ignore my Wii so chock full of VC downloads that I'm out of memory. Just ignore it.

[UERD]

Graphics wars == irrelevant.

The console market isn't self-correcting. It's a vicious cycle. The console that pulls ahead gets more developers, which means more people buy the console, which means more developers develop for that console....et cetera. Nobody's going to spend the GDP of Kenya's worth of money on a lavishly-FMVed PS3 game in two years if the Wii's userbase is so much larger than the PS3's, for example.

I mean, you could tell the end was near once Sony's reps started saying stuff like 'people aren't comparing it to computers or consoles, they're comparing it to PLAYSTATION' and 'the name is capitalized because PLAYSTATION is so fundamentally different from everything else'.

[that Baby guy]

UERD, I agree, except, you forget, Publishers are idiots a lot of the time.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

"PLAYSTATION is so fundamentally different from everything else'"

yeah, nothing before PS3 was such an astronomical embarrassment to industry and lifestyle.