mysticstylez said:
Dude its a new Nintendo system launching, of course there is gonna be mega hype for it. It happens everytime.
Don't jump the gun here, give it a year and see if they take the same route with the Gamecube when it comes to third party games, and spreading out 1st party games over the year.
Then talk about sales.
i could be wrong, but i don't believe the cube sold out at launch in japan, and if it did, it certainly did it much slower than the wii has done here.
the thing is, that while i agree with you that the ps3 would have sold out with the same supply, and while i agree with you that both would probably have sold out with two million units world wide, that doesn't mean that there aren't already signs that tell us more one way or another right now.
getting systems in peoples homes is half the battle. if nintendo get 6 million systems in peoples homes worldwide by the end of march, that's a sizeable user base in a very short time that won't be ignored by publishers.
the wii has had a more succesful launch than it's predecessor, and a more succesful launch the the ps3 and xbox 360. that much we know. we don't know what happens from here other than it may take a while before we get a clear picture (DS vs PSP took a year to shake out).
we do know that nintendo had the best launch, and i don't think it's crazy to applaud that. it's certainly not going to hurt nintendo at this stage, and i think it's pretty hard to argue that it isn't an advantage even at this point.