Wii: Great for babies, the mentally deficient.
It seems that Sony’s games division lost 54.2 billion yen ($445 million dollars) after the release of the PS3 this year. The company attributes the loss to problems during the launch including a general inability to make any units available to anyone. They also had some kind of problem with exploding batteries.
In related news, the Times is saying that the Wii is so great and so fun that you’re a damn fool for not liking it and that it’s great for kids and it’s fun and really great and they have Zelda and there’s like a remote that’s good fun for the whole family and if you don’t like it you’re a dumb head.
Of course I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the general consensus.
Profit Slips at Sony on Losses for PlayStation 3 [NYTimes]
Nintendo’s Wii, Radiating Fun, Is Eclipsing Sony Machine [NYTimes]
You guys should caption your pictures more often. They’re pretty funny.
As for profits, give it time, like you guys said in your own articles. The really sweet games haven’t come out yet.
::dodges hellfire and brimstone that is thrown by angry mob::
I’m willing to live with the “it’s too early to tell” stance taken by many people “in the know” of gaming. Personally, I think it’s pretty clear that the PS3 has a lot of ground to make up… as far as I’m concerned, the Xbox 360 and the PS3 are replaceable goods. Exclusive titles will be more and more rare as developers struggle with increasing costs. The Wii gets a bonus here as any game developed on the Wii will be exclusive in its own way.
As far as your own article regarding the Wii, I think you’re making an incredible mistake calling all future innovations in gaming as “mini-evolutions.” If you think about almost any great company you’ll find that their rise to dominance was created by innovations in stagnant industries. What I find most disturbuing though, is that you first announce the death of innovation/revolution in gaming and then call the Wiimote a “baby step.” Which is it?
Finally, the piece that I believe most game review sites have missed. The Wii has genuinely been able to expand the “gaming market.” In the short two months that I’ve owned my Wii, I’ve been requested by many people to play the Wii. These people aren’t gamers, they’ve never owned a console, and they are often women. By expanding upon the philosophy of making gaming a social activity (think 4 controlers vs. 2) gaming has taken another step towards “social acceptability.”
Maybe the Wiimote will be a fad lost to the ages or maybe it’ll change the face of gaming, but if the holodeck is the eventual goal for gaming (it certainly is for me) then the Wiimote takes a far more significant step forward then HD graphics. My money (literally) is on Nintendo.
P.S. That really is an excellent caption.
I can’t believe people are still hanging on to their contempt toward the GameCube-and its running into the Wii. The truth is Wii is doing better than the 360 and PS3 and some people still can’t accept that.