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Will the Wii Work?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-a-charm-or-an-anvil dept.

Today BusinessWeek is running an article asking Will Nintendo's Wii Strategy Score? With the Tokyo Game Show this week, they run down the trials facing Nintendo's little-box-that-could both here in the States, and in Japan. From the article: "Few expect truly dedicated gamers to choose the Wii over the PS3 or Xbox. And ultimately, the advantage may go to Sony. Yuta Sakurai, an analyst at Nomura Securities in Tokyo, expects the PS3 to sell 71 million units by 2011, compared with 40 million units for the Wii. Microsoft, meanwhile, is planning a stripped-down version of the Xbox without a hard-disk drive and other accessories that will cost about $250 in Japan, where the U.S. software maker has endured disappointing results."

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  1. Re:I'd say yes.. by jimstapleton · · Score: 1, Troll

    I plan on getting a couple of those PS3s when a variant of BSD runs on them.

    Don't actually plan on getting any games, I just want a cheap and powerful computer, subsidized by a company known for being anti-consumer.

    I plan on getting a Wii too, and some games.

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  2. Will the Wii work? by piratePenguin · · Score: -1, Troll

    No. The Will will not work at all.

  3. This isn't news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Will the Wii Work?

    What kind of stupid, suggestive question is that? We f***ed the PS3 already, now the Wii is next?

    Damn... You really make me sorry for spending time on this "News" site...

  4. Re:Bogus by Golias · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks to the sensor bar, the Wii has what's missing from the PS3: absolute positioning in space.

    Yeah, like I said, you can move it or tilt it. BFD.

    And the nunchuk also sports a set of accelerometers & gyroscopes

    An add-on controller which not all gamers will have, meaning developers can't make cames which completely depend on it, any more than they can for "alternative" PlayStation controllers.

    Again, how is this so much better than a third-party hardware maker sellinng similar controllers for the old PS2?

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  5. Re:Bogus by Das+Modell · · Score: 0, Troll

    I also like the fact that I get modded flamebait if I point out that a bunch of anonymous fucktards are falsely modding people just because they have a different opinion.

    Assholes.