Nintendo Wii surpasses 9 million in sales

[waggy]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
This means the PS3 has actually made more profit than the Wii, assuming Sony wasnt loosing money with each of them in the first place of course

hahahahahahah holly shit. hahahahhahahah

 

[FoBoT]

i would buy a second wii for the house if i could get it past the wife, she think we have "too many game machines" , just wii, gamecube and xbox 🙁

 

[Beev]

vgchartz > nexgenwars imo

 

[TallBill]

We have already had this discussion 11teen times in the CONSOLE forum. Wii isn't in the same class anymore.

Great fucking job putting out a $250 system where the best games were made 10 years ago.

 

[mugs]

The Wii is great and all, but don't use nexgenwars.com or vgchartz.com as a source. Neither collects data, they're just sites run by kids that use data from other sources (like NPD) and try to project sales beyond what actual data is available and (in the case of vgchartz at least) offer their own sub-par, poorly written armchair analysis.


Edit: vgchartz DOES collect data, but by their own admission their sample size is very small compared to REAL companies that collect this data.

 

[Yongsta]

Originally posted by: TallBill
We have already had this discussion 11teen times in the CONSOLE forum. Wii isn't in the same class anymore.

Great fucking job putting out a $250 system where the best games were made 10 years ago.

Yeah great job making a killing in profits while Microsoft (lost billions on original xbox, losing billions w/ current xbox & RROD issues) & Sony losing billions (although they made a lot of money/profit on PSone and PS2). But Nintendo business model makes them a ton of money, at the end of the day it's all about profits.

 

[dbk]

I :heart: Mario Strikers

 

[Ackmed]

Too bad they're playing the "sold out" bs for so long. Just put out enough consoles, and stop trying to milk it out.

 

[TallBill]

Yongsta, I don't give a fuck who makes the most money or sells the most. I'm a "hardcore" gamer, not a video game company investor. Nokia has "snake" on their cell phones, so I guess thats a good handheld console? Pft..

 

[Fingolfin269]

This explains why I still cannot find one on a store shelf.

 

[ViviTheMage]

love my wii wii

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: TallBill
We have already had this discussion 11teen times in the CONSOLE forum. Wii isn't in the same class anymore.

Great fucking job putting out a $250 system where the best games were made 10 years ago.

Sour grapes from a person who has failed to realize the 'hardcore/traditional' gaming market is incredibly small compared to the 'casual' gaming market.

 

[TallBill]

Its not sour grapes, its just my personal opinion. And really there's nothing to be sour about because Hardcore Gamers still get the best games. Now if they stopped making high quality games just to please the masses, then yes I'd be very sour.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: CKDragon

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
This means the PS3 has actually made more profit than the Wii, assuming Sony wasnt loosing money with each of them in the first place of course

I've kept this tab open in my browser for the last two hours just for this quote. I keep periodically returning to read it in an attempt to figure out how one could come to that conclusion.

A few minutes ago blood started coming out of my ears.

When from behind me, a woman of 25 uttered the dumbest thing I'd ever heard in my life ... She said, 'If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college.' I'll repeat that. I'll repeat that because that's the kind of sentence that when you hear it, your brain comes to a screeching halt. And the left hand side of the brain looks at the right hand side and goes, 'It's dark in here, and we may die.' She said, 'If it weren't for my horse...' as in, giddy up, giddy up, let's go - 'I wouldn't have spent that year in college,' a degree-granting institution. Don't! Don't think about that sentence for more than three minutes, or blood'll shoot out your nose. The American medical profession doesn't know why we get an aneurysm. It's when a blood vessel bursts in our head for no apparent reason. There's a reason. You're at the mall one day, and somebody over there says the dumbest thing you've ever heard and it goes in your ear. So you turn around to see if your friends heard it, cause if your friends heard it, and you can talk about what the jackass said, then it'll be gone. But your friends are over here, pretending they're gonna buy a cellular phone, and they're not gonna buy a cellular phone, because they don't even understand how the rate structure works. So you turn back, to find the person who said it, because if you can ask 'em a question like, 'WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT?!' then it'll go away. But they're gone. And now those words are in your head. And those words don't go away. Cause the way I see it, 7% of our brains functions all the time, because 99% of everything that happens is the same old stuff. We get it. All right. Move on. Get it. Right. But every so often, somethin' like that happens: 'If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.' So your brain goes, 'LET'S FIGURE IT OUT! Son of a bitch! I wonder what that's about!' I wonder, was she riding the horse to school? No, she wouldn't be riding the horse to school. Maybe it was a polo pony; she had a polo pony scholarship. Maybe she sold the horse and that's how she - she was betting on the horse! WHAT THE FUCK?!! And then you realize that anybody who went to college would never say anything that stupid in public. And as soon as you have that thought, your eyes close and the next morning they find you dead in your bathroom.

-- Lewis Black

hahah awesome. I should watch that clip again

 

[Firebot]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: CKDragon

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
This means the PS3 has actually made more profit than the Wii, assuming Sony wasnt loosing money with each of them in the first place of course

I've kept this tab open in my browser for the last two hours just for this quote. I keep periodically returning to read it in an attempt to figure out how one could come to that conclusion.

A few minutes ago blood started coming out of my ears.

When from behind me, a woman of 25 uttered the dumbest thing I'd ever heard in my life ... She said, 'If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college.' I'll repeat that. I'll repeat that because that's the kind of sentence that when you hear it, your brain comes to a screeching halt. And the left hand side of the brain looks at the right hand side and goes, 'It's dark in here, and we may die.' She said, 'If it weren't for my horse...' as in, giddy up, giddy up, let's go - 'I wouldn't have spent that year in college,' a degree-granting institution. Don't! Don't think about that sentence for more than three minutes, or blood'll shoot out your nose. The American medical profession doesn't know why we get an aneurysm. It's when a blood vessel bursts in our head for no apparent reason. There's a reason. You're at the mall one day, and somebody over there says the dumbest thing you've ever heard and it goes in your ear. So you turn around to see if your friends heard it, cause if your friends heard it, and you can talk about what the jackass said, then it'll be gone. But your friends are over here, pretending they're gonna buy a cellular phone, and they're not gonna buy a cellular phone, because they don't even understand how the rate structure works. So you turn back, to find the person who said it, because if you can ask 'em a question like, 'WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT?!' then it'll go away. But they're gone. And now those words are in your head. And those words don't go away. Cause the way I see it, 7% of our brains functions all the time, because 99% of everything that happens is the same old stuff. We get it. All right. Move on. Get it. Right. But every so often, somethin' like that happens: 'If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.' So your brain goes, 'LET'S FIGURE IT OUT! Son of a bitch! I wonder what that's about!' I wonder, was she riding the horse to school? No, she wouldn't be riding the horse to school. Maybe it was a polo pony; she had a polo pony scholarship. Maybe she sold the horse and that's how she - she was betting on the horse! WHAT THE FUCK?!! And then you realize that anybody who went to college would never say anything that stupid in public. And as soon as you have that thought, your eyes close and the next morning they find you dead in your bathroom.

-- Lewis Black

+1

I think this universe just collapsed and merged with another alternate universe when those words were written😕 The cosmic balance was thrown in chaos.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Too bad they're playing the "sold out" bs for so long. Just put out enough consoles, and stop trying to milk it out.

I don't think any system has ever sold this fast for this long. On top of that, they're selling even more DSes than Wiis. They're building them as fast as they can.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: TallBill
We have already had this discussion 11teen times in the CONSOLE forum. Wii isn't in the same class anymore.

Great fucking job putting out a $250 system where the best games were made 10 years ago.

Sour grapes from a person who has failed to realize the 'hardcore/traditional' gaming market is incredibly small compared to the 'casual' gaming market.

Yeah, since the biggest release in entertainment history was on the hardcore/traditional market. 🙄

 

[Yongsta]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Yongsta, I don't give a fuck who makes the most money or sells the most. I'm a "hardcore" gamer, not a video game company investor. Nokia has "snake" on their cell phones, so I guess thats a good handheld console? Pft..

As a small niche group I guess they dont give a crap about you neither. If you don't like them that's fine but don't need to cut them down because they don't cater to you. From their perspective it's still a business and it's about making money.

 

[Ns1]

anybody know how availability is locally?

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
This means the PS3 has actually made more profit than the Wii, assuming Sony wasnt loosing money with each of them in the first place of course

So I was at a bar last weekend. I was surrounded by dumb broads. When I mean dumb, I don't mean mute. They sure said a lot of nonsense.
As I was getting ready to leave they started to play some hit song over the loud speakers. I don't remember what it was. But for the sake of the story, let's just say it's a Green Day song.
She tilted her head a bit sideways, like a bird listening to something intently, and asked:
"Are they playing this right now"?

You are the perfect match for this great, intelligent lady.

 

[Firebot]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Yongsta, I don't give a fuck who makes the most money or sells the most. I'm a "hardcore" gamer, not a video game company investor. Nokia has "snake" on their cell phones, so I guess thats a good handheld console? Pft..

I'm a hardcore gamer too, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that mainstream drives the market, and the Wii caters to mainstream users while the PS3 completly missed the mark. A true hardcore gamer also values gameplay over graphics. I far prefer the DS over the PSP, and once the Wii gets some strong games, will be much better then what both Xbox360 and PS3 can offer.

 

[intogamer]

The thing about Wii it is suited for anybody to play it.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
anybody know how availability is locally?

Wouldn't that depend on where "local" is? 😉 It ranges from difficult to find to impossible to find, and then occasionally someone claims that everyone who says they can't find one is lying or stupid, because they see piles of them every day selling for $9.99 at the checkout counter at 7-Eleven.

 

[Ramma2]

Too bad my 360 gets 20x the amount of play time compared to my Wii Sports Machine.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Firebot

Originally posted by: TallBill
Yongsta, I don't give a fuck who makes the most money or sells the most. I'm a "hardcore" gamer, not a video game company investor. Nokia has "snake" on their cell phones, so I guess thats a good handheld console? Pft..

I'm a hardcore gamer too, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that mainstream drives the market, and the Wii caters to mainstream users while the PS3 completly missed the mark. A true hardcore gamer also values gameplay over graphics. I far prefer the DS over the PSP, and once the Wii gets some strong games, will be much better then what both Xbox360 and PS3 can offer.

Yes, but the wii wont ever get that many strong games. Bioshock/Halo 3/Call of Duty 4 type games just wont ever exist on the wii. Not saying that graphics make the game either. I can still have plenty of fun playing Tetris.