Slashdot Comments and Nintendo

A anon comment I made on slashdot about Nintendo:

I think that in total numbers sold the Wii could end up being the most popular console ever.

There I fixed your sentence for you.

:) If Nintendo can keep up their momentum till launch they will be breaking sales figures all over the place. Nintendo finally has the right idea. Stop targeting the super small hardcore gamer market. Lets look at some recent system sales numbers coming out of japan [onnintendo.com]:

PSP: 24,457

DS+lite: 177,049

(5/15- 5/21)

With the release of such games like Brain Age and Nintendogs, Nintendo's sale figures have been going through the roof. There is a huge void out there of games for non gamers and Nintendo is being and will continue to be rewarded for filling it.

MS and Sony are welcome to throw a bunch of tech into their machines so they can churn out a couple million more polys per second, so the new GTA game can have more realistic gore. I am sure there are still people out there that are looking for exactly that. But if you are looking to drastically increase sales numbers... that is not the route to take. The people who bought your console/games last time may buy them again, but the people who passed your product up last gen will pass it again for the same reasons.