Dave Snowdon

I came across this blog entry entitled "Woe is Wii" a couple of days ago and can’t resist commenting any longer.

Apparently the Wii is still the best selling console and supposedly, unlike Sony or Microsoft, Nintendo makes a profit on hardware sales so you’d think there would be nothing to complain about, right?

Newsflash: Casual gamers spend less time playing games!

Yes, that’s right the Wii is doomed because people spend less time playing it than the other next gen consoles. Surely the point about casual gamers is that they are, well, casual, and so probably spend less time obsessively trying to complete a game (not that there’s anything wrong about playing a game obsessively) - so information from Nielsen showing that people tend to play the Wii less than any other console shouldn’t really be a surprise should it?

Links:

• Count Pixel’s Games Blog