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I mean the way I see it

Everyone who bought a Wii (including myself) has one and that's that; there's not really any replay value unless you got friends never getting tired of Wii Sports :laugh:

Nintendo makes a AAA game everyone stays happy that's their strategy and it works for many. NOT FOR ME :p

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It's not opinion, I'm merely looking at how much it has sold, and sells per week.

That directly attributes to how large a household name the console currently has, nothing to do with opinion.

But I and others don't think that direct sales correlates with it being a household name. All it correlates with is it being a household item. The 360 actually seems to have some sort of pop culture around it. People cling to it. The Wii is more disposable (per se, I'm not saying people actually trash the things :p). I mean, the 360 has an 8 game attach rate. The Wii is at what, 4, maybe? People don't care about the Wii as much as they do about the 360 even if more people own a Wii.

-Spenser

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But I and others don't think that direct sales correlates with it being a household name. All it correlates with is it being a household item. The 360 actually seems to have some sort of pop culture around it. People cling to it. The Wii is more disposable (per se, I'm not saying people actually trash the things :p). I mean, the 360 has an 8 game attach rate. The Wii is at what, 4, maybe? People don't care about the Wii as much as they do about the 360 even if more people own a Wii.

-Spenser

Household name and item now? :laugh:

I know what you guys are trying to say, but it just sounds like your like for the console makes you say it has a more powerful household name.

I mean

People don't care about the Wii as much as they do about the 360 even if more people own a Wii.

Who are these people you talk about?

Me and you?

Yeah maybe so, but the reason the Wii is 15 million ahead of the 360 isn't because of me and you per se, it's because of the casuals who DO care about their Wii's.

The Wii has captured many people who just don't want a PS3 or 360. Like parents/grandparents/young children, etc.

Every single month it's sold 2-3x more than the PS3 and 360, and most months outsold them both put together.

But yeah the attach rate for the console probably is quite low, but many of those who have a Wii just play WiiSports/WiiFit and what not. They aren't after gaming collections spanning 20-30 games like we are.

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Whatever dude. Agree to disagree :p

-Spenser

I done that a long time ago, was just giving you the courtesy of a reply seeing as you replied to me :p

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audio is right, i think wii is the biggest name, i still think nintendo itself is the biggest name to people who really don't know video games. All my friends, parents, grandparents, other family members all refer to video games as "nintendo". Even when i had a sega... nintendo. Xbox... nintendo. Maybe as generations pass it'll change, but nintendo is on top again...

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this must be a holiday thing then?

my take is sales don't matter, word on the street does. the Wii is not synonymous with gaming, all the antipathy for the 360 in the world won't change that. both it and the PS3 are by far more "cred" and people think of them when talking about games. in NA it's certainly the 360.

as for mr. tomorrow up there, thanks to the economy being what it is i spend much of my time living in Asia now, and the 360 is by far more respected than the PS3, sorry to say. it's also selling more games and has the outsider's allure of being different and exotic. people see the PS3 as a good machine but more of the same, effectively. all this talk of the 360 failing in Asia is only believed by people who've never lived there. of course at the end of the day it's all very trivial coz they're all good - how can they be bad, we're not talking torture devices here.

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