Wii Pummels PS2, 360 at Xmas

[Guest]

When it came to holiday sales, both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony came out strong.

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[kyeana]

someone screwed up on the title, it should be ps3 not ps2

 

[fulle]

Its funny to watch a machine like the PS3 get DOMINATED by a glorified Gamecube with a gimmick controller.

 

[captaincharisma]

how about its funny to watch both powerhouse consoles get dominated all year by the wii. guess its back to the drawing Bord for the MS crew with the crashbox a $199 price tag still can't put them on top.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]fulle[/nom]Its funny to watch a machine like the PS3 get DOMINATED by a glorified Gamecube with a gimmick controller.[/citation]
Yup.

 

[Tindytim]

Increasing Wii sales isn't good in any way shape or form.

The Wii is just dumbing down gaming. Sure there will be a bigger market for games, but does that matter when most of them will only be entertaining when you're drunk with a bunch of friends?

[citation][nom]fulle[/nom]Its funny to watch a machine like the PS3 get DOMINATED by a glorified Gamecube with a gimmick controller.[/citation]
It's funny you mention that, the Wii achieves Backwards compatibility with the Gamecube because it's the exact same parts just at a higher clock speed.

 

[kyeana]

It's funny you mention that, the Wii achieves Backwards compatibility with the Gamecube because it's the exact same parts just at a higher clock speed.

wii = overclocked gamecube!!!

 

[nekatreven]

The 'dumbing down' effect is likely very small.

Most of the people who's gaming could be dumbed down, feel like you do, and won't buy the wii in the fist place.

The wii is mostly new, simpler gamers.

There may be some real, hard core gamers who go wii and may have their gaming dumbed down like some have said. There is also a slight transfer of this to other consoles, for example the viva pinata, movie trivia, and other family games that might have otherwise not made it to x360. Many of those are there so the x360 gets a slice of the dumbing down.

I still stand by the idea though that the vast majority of gamers that are hard core enough to be dumbed down are, by the same logic, too hard core to allow that to happen.

Just look at the numbers after all. x360 has sold more than the original xbox now. That would have been hard to do if very many of those 45 million wii's were bought by original xbox owners; despite some people having both.