April NPD or Everyone Drinks except Nintendo

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

I'm not gonna disagree with this statement, but how is playing a Nintendo console for Nintendo games any different than people who bought 360s for Halo 3 or people who buy Ps3 for MGS 4 and GTA IV?

The point of me saying that Nintendo fans buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games was simply to establish that, while they'd certainly welcome quality third-party titles, they're generally happy either way... But that this new casual pseudo/non-gamer that's responsible for an unknown (but probably fairly substantial) chunk of it's sales isn't necessarily buying the Wii for either of those.

But I suppose the main difference between buying Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games vs. 360/ps3 for GTAIV is that GTAIV is a third-party title...
I also really don't think it's fair to say that a console with a LOWER game-to-console attach rate is being purchased for Nintendo GAMES (plural), while the console with more robust game sales is being bought for a single title (GTAIV)...

If you look at the top-selling games on each console, GTAIV is just one of many 2+ million sellers from third parties that make up 360's list...

Xbox 360 sales:

2: CoD4
3: Gears of War
6: Assassin's Creed
7: Guitar Hero III
8: Oblivion
10: Madden 08
11: Ghost Recon
12: Rainbow Six Vegas
13: Guitar Hero II
14: CoD3
15: CoD2

And the trend continues with third-party games that sold between 1 and 2 million... Mass Effect, Saints Row, Bioshock, Fight Night, Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Rock Band, Need for Speed games...

PS2's and the original Xbox's lists are similar to that...

Now compare that all to say...

N64
Gamecube
and Wii
*strokes chin*

That is the same feeling Aladuf shares.
And for some reason the creation of Wii Play and Game Party hasn't stopped stuff like Gears 2 or Prototype or hell even Mad World from being announced. Epic isn't all of sudden turning GoW 2 into Gears Party or Halo Play.

Of course not... I was moreso referring to future generations of consoles...
If Wii ultimately dominates the sales charts by these margins when all is said and done this generation, Sony and MS might want to look into ways to tap into this new market Nintendo created... And I'd be curious to see what they come up with, because they're certainly not going to succeed simply by adding a waggle to their next $600 powerhouse of a console...