Nintendo Wii on Winning Spree, beats Xbox 360 and PS3 again

There are at least 10 xbox 360 games for the next 6 months that i'm going to buy... i have a Wii too, and there's not even one Wii game that deserves my attention.... so... Wii for casuals, 360 for hardcores.

PS3? what's that... lol

Its hard to say that the Wii is in the lead of the next gen console war. I still consider it to be a 6th generation console, running at less then a 3rd of the processing power of both the ps3 and 360. A next generation console isnt simply one that is released after the generation before it. The Wii was launced alongside the 7th generation consoles 360 and PS3 but is in fact still a 6th generation console.

Im amazed at the great job the guys at Nintendo have done. I wonder if they aimed for the elderly crowd before hand or if that just happend. They have managed to make a console that is really cheap, well priced, with good enough games. The buzz and sales of the Wii consoles are attracting alot of attention from game studios, not only because its alot cheaper to make games for the Wii, but their user base is expanding rapidly, leaving the more expensive and time consuming game development for both the 360 and PS3 a bit behind.

Im not a Microsoft fan but I am an xbox fan, mostly because of Halo and xbox live. I have been rooting for the 360 and thought they would have an easier time against the competition, but their are sort of getting caught in the middle of two camps. The PS3 is more powerful, came with 1080p capability at launch, a next gen Blu-Ray player, and their sixaxes controler, not too mention their huge user base (PS2) crossing the 100 million mark now. It would have been nice if they would have launched a machine similar to the Elite. I think they have to start pushing a bit more info on their platform integration to pull a larger market share. That being said, Vista needs to get its driver integration together, and help pull all microsofts products and services together.

I wasn't even aware that the Wii was a direct competitor with the 360 and PS3. The 360 and PS3 don't appear concerned with the 8- to 40+ year old category and the Wii doesn't seem to be interested in the hardcore gamer demographic. Nintendo has done a great job hyping their system though and you still can't find units on store shelves. However once I got past the 5min thrill of waving my hands at the screen and played through the only decent game for the system, Zelda, I realized there aren't any other games for the system that weren't extremely shallow and beatable in 30min to 2hrs. Nintendo still does not have much 3rd party game support or online multiplay but it doesn't seem to matter if Nintendo can make sure everyone, including news articles, keeps talking about the "innovative controller" and how amazing the system is despite not having any games or features. As long as Nintendo keeps trickling units to the market they will continue to create a fake marketing craze but the craze will have to fade sometime and N will have to start backing up their system with some solid titles. It will be interesting to see how the Wii does down the long stretch without gaining a significant chunk of the big money spending hardcore gamer demographic. I am skeptical that after an initial system purchase that the Wii's demographic will continue spending money on many games down the road. As of right now the 360 has one of the most impressive games purchased to system averages and the ever growing 3rd party support reflects that.

Finally, Sony is no longer the dominant one in the video game market. I had predicted before the PS3 and Wii came out that Nintendo's system would prevail. Sony has been dominant for several, several years. Its nice to see Nintendo finally back at number one. I think this trend will continue as long as nintendo releases a lot of killer apps, i think they will lead all year and into the holiday season