Is the Nintendo Wii Destined for Failure? A good read...

Figured this might be of interest to this forum..... This is a great article from elenrod.com discussing why the Wii may not succeed in the long run.

Here is the link

 Is the Nintendo Wii Destined for Failure

This analysis is flawed, for example his number 5 means little to the nongamer/casual, because they aren't going to plunk down $600 for a Blu-ray player, and have no interest in 360/PS3 games, otherwise they would be gamers already

The Wiimote won't be duplcated this gen, in addition addons usually fail, in addition thanks to Wii sales the Devs are being forced to put resources to Wii game development in order to make money

The Wii has as much chance to fail as the DS did.wok7

dont act like because the ds is doing well now that it wasnt seen as an underdog to the psp, with no chance of winning. just because the ds pulled it out doesnt mean the wii is a lock. 

Lots of "may"s and "could"s, as usual.

Really, it's an argument I heard right after E3.  Apparently, people are still hanging on to it. 

[QUOTE="wok7"]The Wii has as much chance to fail as the DS did.shadow_lord_11

dont act like because the ds is doing well now that it wasnt seen as an underdog to the psp, with no chance of winning. just because the ds pulled it out doesnt mean the wii is a lock. 

It's kind of like he picked out the most negative scenarios he could think of for the Wii. In reality, Nintendo has tried something completely different and it's working like a charm. At the very least, it looks set to sell a lot more than the Gamecube, which is some kind of success. I can't say it's my favourite console, but you have to admit, Nintendo has made a smart move.

The way I see it, there are three logical ways of looking at the Wii's future based on its situation.

1. Like the article says, the Wii could be doomed due to those reasons.
2. The Wii could endure great success when developers support it after its great sales. There could be a lot of exclusive games made for the Wii because of its hardware both simple and deep.
3. The Wii could be a dumping grounds for simplistic party games and fun sports games due to motion control and still sell, but to a lesser extent in the future.

Based on what I've seen and researched in upcoming news and games, I tend to think number two, but you never know...ShakeNBake1491

The wii is on fire right now I have a feeling that they will fizzle out with lack of third party support because third partys will put out crappy games for the wii just to make a quick buck .

[QUOTE="wok7"]The Wii has as much chance to fail as the DS did.shadow_lord_11

dont act like because the ds is doing well now that it wasnt seen as an underdog to the psp, with no chance of winning. just because the ds pulled it out doesnt mean the wii is a lock. 

sherlock same can be said for all systems :| :roll:

If NIN wants to win this consol war they have to make some deals with 3 party DEV so the can get some exlusive great games

 for the consol, look what happend to the gamecube.

If NIN wants to win this consol war they have to make some deals with 3 party DEV so the can get some exlusive great games

 for the consol, look what happend to the gamecube.

 

Rip870

what happen is

they have smaller disc and werent seen as a big company but now its change,

and online did hurt them.

look 1 2 3 -exclvisve ressident evil 4- should of been (its not_

geist - great game

etc....

The PS3 has the lowest sales but its third party content has sold more then Wii third party content.

 Funny eh?

[QUOTE="Rip870"]

If NIN wants to win this consol war they have to make some deals with 3 party DEV so the can get some exlusive great games

 for the consol, look what happend to the gamecube.

 

wavebrid

what happen is

they have smaller disc and werent seen as a big company but now its change,

and online did hurt them.

look 1 2 3 -exclvisve ressident evil 4- should of been (its not_

geist - great game

etc....

But is the same thing all over again this gen wii have less power so it seems alot of dev doesent care to port games to the wii 

and if they do port the games they make a bad job . Look how many games that are coming to both PS3 and xbox360 but not to the wii. That will hurt the wii sales in the future.

The PS3 has the lowest sales but its third party content has sold more then Wii third party content.

Funny eh?

Bread_or_Decide

The PS3 has the lowest sales but its third party content has sold more then Wii third party content.

Funny eh?

Bread_or_Decide

[QUOTE="wok7"]The Wii has as much chance to fail as the DS did.shadow_lord_11

dont act like because the ds is doing well now that it wasnt seen as an underdog to the psp, with no chance of winning. just because the ds pulled it out doesnt mean the wii is a lock. 

Now if this was a nice rosey  article about the Wii then his comments by the sheep would have been true, but when someone brings up pretty valid points then it is FLAWED..................interesting how that works.

[QUOTE="wavebrid"][QUOTE="Rip870"]

If NIN wants to win this consol war they have to make some deals with 3 party DEV so the can get some exlusive great games

 for the consol, look what happend to the gamecube.

 

Rip870

what happen is

they have smaller disc and werent seen as a big company but now its change,

and online did hurt them.

look 1 2 3 -exclvisve ressident evil 4- should of been (its not_

geist - great game

etc....

But is the same thing all over again this gen wii have less power so it seems alot of dev doesent care to port games to the wii 

and if they do port the games they make a bad job . Look how many games that are coming to both PS3 and xbox360 but not to the wii. That will hurt the wii sales in the future.

wii has smaller game disc than cube :O

ps2 had less power than  cube and xbox

port a game over that look fimlair sells.

what mulitports you guess enjoy more?

your logic is flawd

online, browser, wii music, mii , vc channel   vote channel are all free...

:roll: if you cube had them. you bashing it off other games which dosent make any damm sense at all

[QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"]

The PS3 has the lowest sales but its third party content has sold more then Wii third party content.

Funny eh?

 

Ontain

either out of sony *** or out his own on ***