Wii is not going to be as sucsessful as PLAYSTATION 2

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#1 Suliman-Uchia
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Nintendo is trying to hit many gamers as possible. There trying to get as many casuals as possible. But they are doing a mistake they are not for the hardcore gaming. They are finishing the hardcore to get all the casuals. That is o give them problems.

PLAY-STATION 2 was not all about hardcore gamers it had many casuals too. Games like Barbie and many movie games sold alot. The eye toy it was a big success it had many casual interests. Dance Dance Revolution, Eye Toy, Guitar Hero, Movie games, these were for alot of casuals. This is why the PS2 had 120 million sales and more,

Hardcore is the main part of gaming. The best selling games were hard core GTA: SA sold 15 million now that was a hard core game. Halo, Metal Gear Solid, those games are hardcore also the best selling games are hard core. If Nintendo finishes out their hardcore they will lose alot of there consumers. They are trying to make gaming different. Gaming is where something you can do anything, not be yourself and do what ever you want. Nintendo is making gaming what you do in real life, Wii sports I can do all of those things. It is like some kids hate reading so some company takes out books with pictures, music, crazy things the main readers lose their interest.

Not everyone likes gaming. Not every single casual is going to buy Wii. Alot of them are Nintendo lovers. If they all were casuals there wouldn't be VC bought or games like Redsteel, or Zelda. Some people don't like gaming. And not all use the Wii's motion sensors. If the casual market was so big than Brainage or Nintendogs should have sold more than GTA or Halo but they didn't.

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San Andreas was mostly bought by casuals.
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#3 goblaa
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Traditional gamers will still buy a wii as a secondary console. Nintneod hardcores will still buy one for all the marios and zeldas. Casuals will still buy one because it's hip and will prolly use it as a secondary console as well. Non-gamers will buy it as well for the wii series games.

I think you forget just how large the non-gamer market is. If 95% of non-gamers never buy a wii, than N still sold 10's of millions of wiis to them.

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San Andreas was mostly bought by casuals.m_machine024

Ok if it was bought so much by casuals are there any games like SA on Wii. NO ok get my point. :x

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With the direction Wii and DS are heading I'd be willing to bet the Wii outsells the PS2. The Wii is still effectively sold out worldwide and as soon as sales start to drop Nintendo is already in a position to make a significant price drop. Plus with casual and non-gamer oriented games they've increased their potential userbase by millions. Your arguement about hardcore games selling the best don't hold any water in relation to the Wii, because the Wii's userbase is fundamentally different from that of a PS2 or 360.
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#6 IXftw
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Look at my sig, i'm tired of ppl saying the only games on the Wii are games like Wii fit and Warioware.
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The DS disagrees.
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[QUOTE="m_machine024"]San Andreas was mostly bought by casuals.Suliman-Uchia

Ok if it was bought so much by casuals are there any games like SA on Wii. NO ok get my point. :x

Nintendo wants to get non gamers with the Wii. Casuals =/= non gamers.

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The beauty of PS2 is that appealed to casuals with the price tag and hardcore gamers with their library, Wii on the other hand has the price but will never, ever, ever come close to touching the PS2's library.
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#10 Ontain
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I don't know if it'll match the ps2 in sales but i do believe that it'll get closer to the ps2 than either the 360 or the ps3.
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#11 Ontain
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The beauty of PS2 is that appealed to casuals with the price tag and hardcore gamers with their library, Wii on the other hand has the price but will never, ever, ever come close to touching the PS2's library.0bscurity

we don't know about the library. if the wii controls 50% of the market a year from now i could see that change very quickly. much like what happened to the ds.

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Nintendo is trying to hit many gamers as possible. There trying to get as many casuals as possible. But they are doing a mistake they are not for the hardcore gaming. They are finishing the hardcore to get all the casuals. That is o give them problems.

PLAY-STATION 2 was not all about hardcore gamers it had many casuals too. Games like Barbie and many movie games sold alot. The eye toy it was a big success it had many casual interests. Dance Dance Revolution, Eye Toy, Guitar Hero, Movie games, these were for alot of casuals. This is why the PS2 had 120 million sales and more,

Hardcore is the main part of gaming. The best selling games were hard core GTA: SA sold 15 million now that was a hard core game. Halo, Metal Gear Solid, those games are hardcore also the best selling games are hard core. If Nintendo finishes out their hardcore they will lose alot of there consumers. They are trying to make gaming different. Gaming is where something you can do anything, not be yourself and do what ever you want. Nintendo is making gaming what you do in real life, Wii sports I can do all of those things. It is like some kids hate reading so some company takes out books with pictures, music, crazy things the main readers lose their interest.

Not everyone likes gaming. Not every single casual is going to buy Wii. Alot of them are Nintendo lovers. If they all were casuals there wouldn't be VC bought or games like Redsteel, or Zelda. Some people don't like gaming. And not all use the Wii's motion sensors. If the casual market was so big than Brainage or Nintendogs should have sold more than GTA or Halo but they didn't.

Suliman-Uchia

Somebody needs a visit from the grammar police. So you're telling me that in gaming I can do anything, but I can't be myself OR do whatever I want, contradicting yourself in all of one sentence.

Dude, I don't think you even know what you're talking about! San Andreas was the biggest mainstream game for the PS2 in 2004, and you seriously can't get much more mainstream or casual than Halo! I think you're getting the definition of "hardcore" mixed up. You seem to think a game's "hardcore" or for "hardcore" gamers if it's rated M and contains alot of blood or (in the case of SA) glorified gang violence, wherein actual "hardcore" games are ones made by devs like Atlus, or games like Shenmue, Shadow of the Colossus, the Dragon Quest games, the "Tales of" series.

Sure, you could go out and do all the things you could do with Wii Sports, but that's been the case with sports games for years! It's not like Wii Sports is THE FIRST sports video game ever. Alot of people could ge outside and play football, or soccer, hockey, and alot of people do, and yet still like playing Madden, Fifa, and NHL.

In closing, you fail at the Internets, and pay more attention in Language Arts!

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#13 hoola
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Wii could be more sucsessful at bringing non gamers to the market.