NY Times on Wii’s unexpected success
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 at 6:17pm by Staff
From the article: “Some of the video game industry’s smartest minds thought that couch potatoes wanted richer graphics and more challenging virtual worlds. It turns out that a lot of potatoes simply wanted to get off the couch… [But] is the Wii expanding the video game market, or is it stealing customers from Sony and Microsoft?”
Read on for some excellent discussion on how Wii is changing the game. It features claims that Wii is both stealing PS3/360 business and/or merely supplementing it.
January 31st, 2007 at 6:25 pm
It’s doing both. Pissed off Sony fans, curious Xbox 360 owners, as well as older gamers and women. Just look at the Thanksgiving test. I can say my dad is actively searching for one for my parent’s house and my younger sister because I brought the system home for the holiday. Is it sustainable though? That’s the question.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I think is more expanding the market that steal the competition’s customers.
The reason of what I think this, is for the amount of people acquiring a Nintendo Wii, people that haven’t touched a videogame console for a long, long time or even never in their lives.
Obviously that there are people that bought consoles of the Nintendo’s competition in the past, but the new approach made change their mind and seek for another way to play, but not the same quantity of those that never have played a videogame console.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I agree… I seriously doubt there were any “couch potatoes” out there that really wanted to get off the couch. Those couch potatoes did buy a 360 (and some even bought a PS3!).