Comments on: Wii: how Nintendo got its groove back

By: Olivier

Olivier — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:19:27 +0000

They weren’t “lucky”. They worked hard. Wii is an extremely clever and well designed product.

It looks like you think that the Wii success is due to the sony shipment problems. Shipment is one thing and selling is something else. Simply visit any store and you will notice that there are shortages of Wii not of PS3.

Sony has a huge problem with their price. It is simply too expensive.

Nobody clearly understands the gain you may expect from it. They claim that PS3 will become the media center. So what? I can have a DVD player and a gaming console for half of their price. Blue-Ray? I will consider this technology once it will become mainstream.

By: The Tanooki

The Tanooki — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:09:23 +0000

How Nintendo got its groove back

Tech.Blorge.com’s John Pospisil has written an article on how Nintendo seems to have rebounded from its decline ever since their NES heyday times. Excerpt and link below:
Nintendo sold just 21 million Game Cubes, compared to 33 million Nintendo …

By: Largestill

Largestill — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:06:01 +0000

It wasn’t a matter of luck in regards to how many Wiis were sold.
For example you can walk into any game store or big box store and pick up a ps3, but you still can’t pick up a wii.

I think that Sony, not been able to produce as many units at launch as expected, was their lucky break. Imagine if they had enough at launch, say 2.5 million, and before the end of the holidays there were still PS3s lined up on the shelves with no buyers, kinda like it is now.

Otherwise, good article.