Looking back on the past year everyone will agree with me: it was a great year for gamers. No sooner was the offer is so overwhelming and never before were there so many Triple A titles. What nobody, however, at the beginning of 2007 could have foreseen the triumph that the Nintendo Wii last year has made. Initially, there was still a little bit in order to gegrinnikt – that sway and swing in front of the television – but it wasn’t long before the whole world is the Wii under or next to their monitor.
However, who last Christmas, a Wii on his wish list neerkrabbelde, received the member in the nose. And who secretly hopes for a rectangular package under the christmas Tree with a shiny white machine, is probably also cheated out of. The Wii is and remains everywhere sold out. Nintendo can simply not asking.
In America they have now as an emergency, Wii-cheques in the life called. This coupon guarantees the owner that he is in January on a game console can count. The paper sop may, however, only at a specific retailer are purchased. In England are gamers so desperate that they flock to travel to the French Calais. Here are the consoles still called little trickle, and they cost a lot less than the £ 1000 sometimes on eBay prompted. Also in the Netherlands, on ebay, Wii’s offered for a hefty price. The cheapest copies start at 450 vnom 500 euro. And that while the machine is still as the suggested retail price 249,95 euros.
The Wii is hot and gives the much more advanced PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 the review. And that will in 2008 continue to do so. Stronger still: the Wii in 2008 will reset all records to succumb; there are several arguments to think of.
While Sony and Microsoft are the consumer is overwhelmed with terms like HD, multimedia, entertainment device, blu-ray and next-gen, Nintendo has gameplay, you just made more accessible. Literally. Those who look at the average Wii game will agree with me that there is graphically no difference with GameCube titles. Super Mario Galaxy aside, know most of the Wii games is technically not really impress. That however is no’t one bit. The Wii owner play Wii Sports and is happy, because it’s all so darn easy. Whether it’s your nephew, of six, or you father of sixty, anyone can work with the Wii-mote.
‘Nintendo have to be careful, playing with fire.” “It alienates herself from her faithful supporters by the mainstream approach.’ The are frequently heard expressions. But it is precisely because the Nintendo supporters are so loyal, it remains the success to continue. Who ever a E3 trade show has visited, and in the audience sat in the Nintendo press conference, knows that such an event was almost religious forms. I sat once next to a young man who, with every new announcement of a ‘oh yeah, this is great’ left and lost. And he was not the only one. Standing ovations were the rule rather than the exception, and or Mario now played, golfte, danced, or his head went, it was fantastic. Nintendo fans are hondstrouw. Not so strange, because with series like Zelda, Super Mario, Metroid Prime and Mario Kart knows the Japanese company every time superior games for the lovers of the first hour. With ‘real’ gamestitels as Mario Kart Wii , Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Battalion Wars 2 in the pipeline for 2008 continues to be that fan base to bind. The new user group, on the other hand is in a very different way to operate.
With titles like Nintendogs and Braintraining on the DS and Wii Sports on the Wii has a broad audience is able to speak, which were previously not or hardly games played. That group will, as Nintendo is, in 2008 only bigger. With the impending Wii Balance Board in the first half of the new year, gyms, retirement homes, community centres and day care centres taken aback by Nintendo’s console. In a playful manner, fitness, and yoga exercises to do in a simple, aaivriendelijke environment? It can be done with Wii Fit (the program with the Balance Board is provided) and it will massively catch on, I predict. We can now just so giggly all over, as it is about the slap in the vacuum during tennis in Wii Sports, but it is a success.
And then of course there’s the price. The Wii currently costs officially 249,95 euro, but you can see what happens when Nintendo, a price cut make to, for example 199,95 euro. It is not a question lwa f this reduction is to come, but when. As long as the demand for Wii’s towering remains, could the Japanese giant be crazy in the short term to do so. Nintendo has a big trump-card behind hand, and can at any time played out.
Curious what Sony and Microsoft in 2008 at this Nintendo advance know. The ‘Console War’ was in any case never so much fun and next year will only be even more interesting to follow.