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**Damien** · 27-04-2007, 01:05

Good as well. While Microsoft, at least in public, have shown support for Nintendo (or at least respect) Sony have continued their attempts to try and demean and destory Nintendo. They were quite pleased with the demise of Sega but this cost them a lot of goodwill and their snipes at the Wii and DS have been childish.

But Nintendo have recovered more than anyone expected. Its excellent. I was really worried a while back with the release of the PSP, All the press where pointing to the success of the Playstation and saying how Sony would destory the Game Boy, but the DS blew it away. Its incredible that the PSP hardly features in the mind of the public compared with the DS and with good reason. Its an amazing console, one of the best ever in my view.

Now they are doing the same with the Wii, while we need to wait and see if the sales will actually relate to more software sales as the consoles matures is the big issue now. Without a lot of software the console will fall and in turn the software support will dry up. Thankfully the Wii is cheap and easy to develop for and the amazing sales of the units means that developers are going crazy to develop for it. Cheap to produce, large market. The only question will be that if a 'new' audience is whats causing the Wii sales will this mean they will buy software at a rate the 360/ps3 owners will? I think the sales will be less but made up for by the high number of Wii consoles out there and that developers can actually make a profit on a Wii game.

Time will tell but developers love it, the public seem to love it. And its heading for 1st place. (anyone got sales figures?)

Nintendo is a resounding victory for gameplay over graphics. Yay!

27-04-2007, 01:05	#3
Damien Remoaner Cable Forum Team Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 32,751	Re: Nintendo Makes Mega Bucks Good as well. While Microsoft, at least in public, have shown support for Nintendo (or at least respect) Sony have continued their attempts to try and demean and destory Nintendo. They were quite pleased with the demise of Sega but this cost them a lot of goodwill and their snipes at the Wii and DS have been childish. But Nintendo have recovered more than anyone expected. Its excellent. I was really worried a while back with the release of the PSP, All the press where pointing to the success of the Playstation and saying how Sony would destory the Game Boy, but the DS blew it away. Its incredible that the PSP hardly features in the mind of the public compared with the DS and with good reason. Its an amazing console, one of the best ever in my view. Now they are doing the same with the Wii, while we need to wait and see if the sales will actually relate to more software sales as the consoles matures is the big issue now. Without a lot of software the console will fall and in turn the software support will dry up. Thankfully the Wii is cheap and easy to develop for and the amazing sales of the units means that developers are going crazy to develop for it. Cheap to produce, large market. The only question will be that if a 'new' audience is whats causing the Wii sales will this mean they will buy software at a rate the 360/ps3 owners will? I think the sales will be less but made up for by the high number of Wii consoles out there and that developers can actually make a profit on a Wii game. Time will tell but developers love it, the public seem to love it. And its heading for 1st place. (anyone got sales figures?) Nintendo is a resounding victory for gameplay over graphics. Yay!