Curmeo

to zujik: you are incorrect son.

your reply contains two-thirds incorrect information and one-third statements that i did not contradict. i will give you one example to chew on.

"Your whole cute rant coupled with the DS as proof is plain wrong though. The DS, worldwide (which, really, is all that matters) has sold, continues to sell and propbably will always outsell the PSP. Yes, there was a sharp rise after the DS Lite launced but not so with the PSP Slim, maybe Sony should look in to that OR your point has no value. If your comparing week to week sales then who cares, the DS has still sold more (three times more) but this isn't a pissing contest."


"Your whole cute rant coupled with the DS as proof is plain wrong though."

we'll see in a few minutes.


"The DS, worldwide (which, really, is all that matters) has sold, continues to sell and propbably will always outsell the PSP."

umm, so?


"Yes, there was a sharp rise after the DS Lite launced but not so with the PSP Slim, maybe Sony should look in to that OR your point has no value."

1) what did my point have to do with Sony's PSP redesign again? did i even mention my views on Sony's redesigned PSP in my original post? my views on the DS Lite redesign do not equal my views on the Sony PSP redesign, the latter of which i didnt even address in my original post.

2) DS Lite gave much more than merely a sharp rise in sales. the redesign let the DS platform consistently outsell PSP worldwide for the first time.

"If your comparing week to week sales then who cares, the DS has still sold more (three times more) but this isn't a pissing contest."

i didnt vaguely compare "week to week sales". i compared week to week sales *of the period in between PSP's launch and the launch of DS Lite* to explain my "cuteness" point. the fact is, PSP outsold DS Phat within the above mentioned time frame consistently worldwide. only when DS Lite launched did the DS platform finally consistently outsell PSP worldwide. you should also know (if you werent able to conclude from my original post) that PSP's market penetration was faster than DS Phat's market penetration since the relative launches of both systems. also bear in mind there's no ceteris paribus here: PSP hardware and software has always been significantly more expensive. despite this, and despite having a delayed European launch, i recap:

PSP relative market penetration > DS Phat relative market penetration

PSP relative worldwide sales > DS relative worldwide sales

once DS Phat was redesigned into the cute Apple-esque DS Lite, sales skyrocketed.

*insert lame post-ending line over here*

Halo doesnt suck but it is overrated. honestly the only reason Halo is popular is because Halo 1 had an awesome story (which the sequels dont unfortunately) and Xbox 1 hardly had any good games so Halo stuck out.

to the retard Vegeta: funny you couldnt think of any counterarguements in you reply to my post. ha ha. oh wow.

to Curtis: do i need to remind you that the DS is based on the N64 hardware? or that the GameCube was released 8 years ago?

Nintendonald's you are no more the respectable Nintendo of the past. overcharging on decade old hardware. dumbing down gameplay for your precious non-gamer/casual audience. not providing proper online funtionality with the excuse of keeping it "safe, friendly, and easy" when we all know you really are just maximizing your profits. fooling people into thinking Wii Fit will make them slimmer or Brain Age will make them smarter.

Nintendonald's has become the plague of the game industry similar to how McDonald's is the plague of the food industry.

when Reggie said Nintendonald's is now a "and" company as opposed to an "or" company, he really meant Nintendonald's will focus 75 percent on the non-gamers/casuals and 25 percent on the hardcore gamers who kept them from going bankrupt during the N64 and GameCube days.

to hardcore Nintendonald's lovers: keep supporting your beloved company. one day you will realise your company is ruining the entire industry when more and more publishers and developers shift focus from hardcore games to casual games, as we are seeing happening now with Nintendonald's, Ubisoft, EA, and others.

Jeff Engel,

"Sony, in a seemingly obvious attempt to blunt the impact of Nintendo's newly styled controller, added motion sensitivity to their controllers before the PS3 launched."

false. Sony would have added SIXAXIS motion sensing irrespective of Nintendonald's decisions this gen. they needed many reasons to convince people to buy a $600 system and motion sensing was definitely one of them. they even patented the idea of a motion sensing controller long before Nintendonald's did.


"Wii Sports and Wii Play, ironically, probably attracted the same people that bought a PS2 just to play around with GTA."

false. the casual fan segment of GTA call the Wii kiddy and for kids and soccer moms. they wouldnt be caught dead with a Wii remote.


many of your reasons are wrong. the following are the real reasons Nintendonald's is succeeding:

1) they created a cute console with a cute name and cute remote that people, especially females, are attracted to. funny enough, the reason DS started to sell better than/outsell PSP is when Nintendo introduced the redesigned DS Lite. it is a fact that the DS Phat sold at a much slower rate worldwide than PSP until the DS Lite was introduced. even their "market expanding, disruptive" software such as Nintendogs couldnt help DS Phat outsell PSP. the early headstart of the DS Phat along with the Lite redesign helped DS outsell PSP. again, a cute-looking handheld system that females like. the same reason iPods are so popular. image and advertisement-effectiveness is everything in todays super shallow and fake world.

2) priced the DS and Wii significantly below the competition, as well as software prices.

3) launched effective ad-compaigns targeted firstly at non-gamers, secondly at casual gamers, and lastly at hardcore gamers.

4) Nintendonald's impressive software sales are a result of creating dumbed-down gameplay for their cute-looking systems that have the cute-looking Remote and Stylus (what you refer to as mature, innovative and intuitive software) for party games such as Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario Party etc. then u have "self-improvement" DS games which dont actually improve you (as doctors have confirmed) but rather give you a sense that you arent waisting your time playing "meaningless" games. these are Brain Age, Cooking Mamma, Wii Fit etc.

lastly, M$ doesnt care one bit about Nintendo. since Nintendo deals with only games, they are not a threat to M$. even the typical Nintendo game genres arent the typical PC game genres.

M$ doesnt want to replace Xbox 360, Windows Mobile, or Zune with the PC. they just want to make sure their OS customers dont switch to PlayStations and Macs and PSPs and iPods and iTunes and PlayStation Store. their only concern is making sure Sony's PlayStation Empire doesnt affect their OS business. two big reasons people buy PCs is for work and entertainment. PS3 already lets you install Linux legally on the system and use it as a full-fledged PC with a blu-ray drive at only $400. M$ felt threatened when they realised two Sony systems(PS1 and PS2) sold over 100 million units each in hardware. this was potentially a huge threat to the M$ empire.

M$ didnt want Sony to have similar success with PS3, meaning PS3 outselling the 125 million PS2 units which outsold the 100 million PS1 units. more and more people would switch from PCs to PS3s for entertainment(games, movies, tv shows, music etc.) and even work via PS3 Linux. if Sony included Linux preinstalled on PS3, M$ would seriously flip out. they'd prolly do something crazier than what they're doing right now with Yahoo!.

the great Michael Jordan said it best himself: "I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish."

you are incorrect son.

first off, Nintendo deals with more than just videogames, albeit on a smaller scale. just that fanboys like you dont know better.

second, SCE(Sony Computer Entertainment) is a seperate company from Sony as is Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division from the greater Microsoft.

the relationships between SCE and MS Entertainment division end at subsidies and collaborations. both companies are expected to perform like seperate entitites and show results (read profits).

from a business standpoint, Nintendonald's is genius thanks to Iwata. but from a moral and ethical standpoint, Nintendonald's is milking people worse than a farmer with a herd of Swiss cows. wake up and smell the dairy.

damnit Sega what happened to you? 2D Sonic used to OWN 2D Mario. bring back Sonic X-treme from the dead.

Nintendonald's decided they'd rather sell Wii at a healthy profit from day 1 then include an HDD and give value to the customer. shame on them. even "Big Brother" M$ and the "Big Evil Empire" Sony sold their systems at a substantial loss. but no, Nintendonald's is the "good guy"!

who wants to bet this "Xmote" will suffer from hardware problems?