“The Wii is officially a monster”
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 at 1:29pm by Jack
N’Gai Croal’s Monday Morning Quarterback email conversations are always enlightening, so it was with some chagrin that I noticed they had not been filtering into the Infendo mailbox for the past three months.
Today, however, we get a megaton update that covers basically every base in the video game industry notebook. As is to be expected of me, I gravitated towards the paragraphs that prominently featured Nintendo news, opinion and criticism.
Highlights: 400,000+ Wii’s sold in July… Wii accessory purchased bely the console’s success… DS continues to sell… Sell yes, but it’s top 10 list is lacking original IP… inept 3rd party players could stifle the Wii’s growth… or could they? Maybe at first, but then they’ll just go away… the list of achievements and areas of improvement goes on and on.
The biggest thing to come out of the discussion, I think, is how precarious the waters are right now for 3rd party developers. Either they “get” the Wii soon, or they get left behind. The numbers this system is putting up month after month are too large now to simply ignore or throw schlock against the wall to see what fits (EA’s Family Controls are *barely* a start).
I encourage you all to read the entire post, as it’s not all Wii love and 3rd party angst. Hell, you might even learn something. A rarity for this Internet thing in this day and age.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Personally i dont like the Wii. but i de enjoy most other nintendo consoles.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
sorry about the spelling error
September 5th, 2007 at 5:23 am
At least he isn’t pulling figures out of his ass, That chat seems to be the most accurate picture any of the media outlets that cover video games. You might not feel it from the sites, but the podcasts reflect how angry the are at Nintendo, not because they hate the Wii, but because Nintendo is ignoring them, THEM, some of the Egm were saying how bad Nintendo was handling the marketing campaign for the games since they weren’t buying not even one page in the monthly magazine, “do they even care to sell the game?” they are advertising but not in the trade magazines… They are in Vogue, Maxim, Time, Life, Enquirer, Beat, Rolling Stone, etc. etc. open a magazine in any store that doesn’t say video game in the cover and it will probably have an ad for the Wii and Ds. If you keep talking to the hardcore, you really are missing the big new business, Soccer Moms, American Dad, and kids. Hardcore now is a market that handles the 14 to 30 year old gamer, that might have access to big income of money with no real purpose for it.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Jobo: Personally, I think you’re gay.