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But only few people can charge 4500 dollars for it and get paid.Dr_Cogent said:Anyone can make charts. Anyone.
But only few people can charge 4500 dollars for it and get paid.Dr_Cogent said:Anyone can make charts. Anyone.
I didn't shell out the $4,500 to read their report, but I'm guessing their DS vs PSP chart looks something like this:duk said:I'd like to the a PSP and DS Lite chart. :lol
The Faceless Master said:
love that chart
Fusebox said:I can't believe Wii Fits success, where were all these people when Yourself! Fitness came out for Xbox, superior graphics no substitute for novelty controller?
Wolves Evolve said:My Predictions:
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Available Colours for Consoles in 2009:
PS3: Black, Silver, White (Black only in Europe)
360: Black, White, Grey and Green combination
Wii: White, Cerulean Blue, Hot Pink
Funniest Advertising Campaigns:
1. Wii
2. PS3
3. 360
Dumbest Peripheral Add-ons
1. 360/Wii Tie
2. Ps3
3. PSP
4. DS
Fattest, loneliest, Firefly-Lovingest Fans
1. Wii/360/PS3 Tie
if they sell 3 million in december, 2 million in november and 1 million in october, that leaves them 9 months to sell 6 million...Haunted One said:According to this graph, the PS3 will sell over a million units during every month of every year.
Never more apt. :lol
Count Dookkake said:Ultimately, that is the major advantage that Wii Fit has over Yourself! Fitness.
FightyF said:The fact that it will sell more makes it a better product?
:lol
The giggles from the chart wore off and then BAM I read this.
FightyF said:The fact that it will sell more makes it a better product?
:lol
The giggles from the chart wore off and then BAM I read this.
Media fanboyism is only bad if it's Nintendo.Clinton514 said:I love how the game media who so adamantly condemns 'fanboyism', dabbles in the shit every so often.
FightyF said:The fact that it will sell more makes it a better product?
:lol
The giggles from the chart wore off and then BAM I read this.
Count Dookkake said:Luckily the Wii is on track to potentially be the biggest gaming system of all time, so that increases the odds of a diverse and competitive market for innovations in fitness software.
Ultimately, that is the major advantage that Wii Fit has over Yourself! Fitness.
they'd have to do a lot more than correct mistakes to match yourself! fitness as a fitness game.Gaborn said:Reaching a larger userbase makes it increasingly likely that Nintendo will revisit a successful game with a sequel. the same can't necessarily be said for Yourself! Fitness. In other words, Nintendo is potentially more likely to correct mistakes and perceived flaws with Wii Fit in a sequel than are the makers of Yourself! Fitness.
Count Dookkake said:You are not very adept at reading.
Bolded for the reading impaired.
Esteemed poster Gaborn furthers the explanation, but limits it to Nintnendo revisions only. I believe the success of the Board (and of the Wii in general) will cause more competition to take advantage of the board.
Fucking impossible.The Faceless Master said:if they sell 3 million in december, 2 million in november and 1 million in october, that leaves them 9 months to sell 6 million...
of course it's impossible, i'm just saying... IF I DID IT, that's how it would happen!Haunted One said:Fucking impossible.
Not mathematically (although - as others have pointed out - Sony isn't even planning to ship that many consoles this and next year), but the chance of this happening is so astronomically small.... it could just as well be called impossible.
Haunted One said:do share.
Stop It said:Holy sweet mother of Jesus you did not just say that, this combined with your utterly wrong assertion that Wii will be irrelevant by 2009 (Hint, the mass market doesn't care for tech wars) just shows how markedly insane you are, or just delusional, or a SCE worker.
1: Price didn't save the Gamecube, it isn't a factor in the UK (360 is cheaper than Wii, that hasn't stopped Wii from trampling 360 week after week), and PS3 still hasn't a huge margin to play with yet, SCE can't really afford to price cut for a while yet, not in the US anyway.
2:the transition from DVD to BR will not be like that of VHS to DVD, it will be more gradual, and by the time BR becomes as mainstream as DVD became thanks in part to PS2, standalone players will be far cheaper than PS3, destroying any advantage BR gives the console sales wise.
:lol: No, but if it isn't its known as a GUESS, predictions are generally based off research and yes, actual facts.
WiiFit does something Yourself Fitness did not and could not, monitoring exercise and giving appropriate feedback.Fusebox said:I can't believe Wii Fits success, where were all these people when Yourself! Fitness came out for Xbox, superior graphics no substitute for novelty controller?
wii fit's system can be gamed just like yourself! fitnessSafe Bet said:WiiFit does something Yourself Fitness did not and could not, monitoring exercise and giving appropriate feedback.
Yourself Fitness really isn't much more interactive than an exercise video.
No, the biggest difference is the fact that Nintendo puts as much marketing and development behind Wii Sports as they do with the Mario games perhaps even more. Microsoft didn't even give PGR4 a proper marketing campaign and they left RARE in the cold with Viva Pinata.Vinci said:Isn't the biggest difference that one has Wii in the title and the other has Yourself? Arguing about the technical or other differences seems unnecessary.
[Nintex] said:No, the biggest difference is the fact that Nintendo puts as much marketing and development behind Wii Sports as they do with the Mario games perhaps even more. Microsoft didn't even give PGR4 a proper marketing campaign and they left RARE in the cold with Viva Pinata.
I thought about this too, but Wii Chess for example bombed in Wii crazy Europe land so there's more to it than that. It really comes down to their marketing approach, they have titles for each audience. With Viva Pinata Microsoft and RARE tried to create some kind of hybrid for both the casual and hardcore players and it didn't work out. Nintendo has a seperate line-up of touch-generations(Wii Sports, Wii Play, Endless Ocean, Wii Fit, Brain Training) that people will enjoy and a "gamers" line-up of Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii, Metroid Prime 3 and others.Vinci said:I'm not disagreeing. All I'm commenting on is that Wii Fit would've outsold Yourself Fitness without Nintendo even taking such a strong marketing approach to it, IMO. It has Wii in the title, which will automatically get people to at least look at it, particularly those that have been brought into the Wii with Wii Sports. I'm not saying it would sell as well as it is with the marketing, just that having Wii in the title is a pretty strong lure in and of itself. The brand has reached a level of complete mainstream hegemony, at least when it comes to video games.
Skiptastic said:My response is summarized by the author's last name.
Deku said:You know what's so great about these is that the authors are almost always never called to account.
Here's a projection for NA market share released in January 2007. Post PS3/Wii launch but apparently, SFG didn't have the proper market intelligence so they just fell inline with the fanboy consesus of the day. Might as well have blind monkeys do projections for us instead of paying a pretty penny for these studies.
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4498&Itemid=2
kame-sennin said:Someone should take some of the most famous predictions (like this one and the one from screendigest) and make a deviation graph every year. That way we'll have a visual representation of how horrible these predictions are.
kame-sennin said:Someone should take some of the most famous predictions (like this one and the one from screendigest) and make a deviation graph every year. That way we'll have a visual representation of how horrible these predictions are.
Kuramu said:Then we can have a yearly thread where we discuss those deviation graphs. Gaffers can make their own predictions as to future trends in analyst prediction deviation. We can average Gaf predictions together and make graphs predicting future deviations in analyst predictions. If we do it just right, the universe will fall in on itself.
Opiate said:In all seriousness, I actually believe Pachter harnesses the phenomenon we're discussing to his advantage. I think he makes some outlandish claims, and I think he knows these claims are outlandish when he makes them. Because they are outlandish, people talk about them.
If he's wrong, no one remembers. If he's right, then he's the guy who predicted the truth, even though it seemed so crazy, so unlikely, at the time he proclaimed it. When you make a crazy prediction and end up being right, people are much more likely to remember.
And regardless of the outcome, he gets more press -- as does Wedbush Morgan, a company I knew almost nothing about until I read the umpteenth article about "Michael Pachter from Wedbush Morgan."