choc_cake said:
yeah, and they all play on Nintendo DS systems. A wii is just too involved to be seriously hooked up for non gamers. Playing the wii for thanksgiving is one thing, but buying one is another thing altogether.
Dude, the point of the Wii is that it's not "involved" at all, you pick up the controller and you just
know how to play without much of that learning nonsense.
Plus most people are in social activities, and the Wii truly is a
social console, it's meant to be brought to a party or a friend's house (small form factor, light, ...), hooked in and then the fun just starts.
Handheld is all very good, but it's an extremely solitary activity, the kind of things you do when you're bored and pretty much alone, the situations where people used to read books to pass time.
Not so with the Wii, because one of the Wii's goal -- and it seems to be running with the ball so far -- is to enjoy playing with your friends, family, colleagues, whatever. And that's extremely important for "non-gamers" crowd, they
are going to be interested once they try the system (remember, playing is believing), and they're going to be interested because some guys are going to start bringing Wiis at parties.
No the DS success doesn't mean the Wii will be successful, but the DS success created a brand new awareness of nintendo systems. And the DS showed Nintendo "The Path". If anything, I think the Wii has an even greater potential for success than the DS ever had, in and out of Japan.
Now I don't know if the Wii will be that successful, but I pray it will, and I do think it will. It's generating a lot of buzz in europe, it's just started setting Japan ablaze, and it seems to be doing well in the US. In the "mainstream, non-gaming press/markets", I mean. For hell's sake, pretty much every "news" outlet (including the Colbert Report) mentioned the Wii, even in Yurop!