Can Xbox 360 take Nintendo Wii market share with Newton motion controller?
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The Nintendo Wii was said to be “just for kids” at first by gamers that did not like the unrealistic graphics, but many months after this games console released we not only have adults and children playing the Nintendo Wii, but there has been lots of press showing the Wii being used for health reasons. The Nintendo Wii gets you up and gives exercise as well as gaming fun, now the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 might have better graphics but they lack that added involvement in the game.
Following the news of a Newton motion controller and the photo above shows what some people feel it will look like, we see that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 wants in on Nintendo’s motion technology success. Even the PS3 has motion on its controller, although its nothing like the Wii’s.
The question here is: Can the Xbox 360 take some of the Wii’s market share with the Newton motion controller?
I personally play my Sony PS3 way more than my Nintendo Wii, but I did buy a Nintendo Wii because it did things the PS3 could not. So will a motion controller for the 360 stop some people buying a Wii?
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No this will fail. Nintendo has created something unique while Sony and mirco haven’t. Everybody will still go with wii,
Come on! were talking about microsoft!! $$$$$$
No Way, what a cop-out on microsoft’s part, I guess it’s a compliment to what Nintendo has done right this time around.
No as although they could probably do some decent games around it the Wii now has the word of mouth momentum.
Everyone knows that this is what the Wii is all about and no me-too controller is going to change that – look at the reaction to Sony announcing 6-axis afterwards to see what people thing for confimation of this.
i like my 360 just the way it is. if i wanted motion controls id just play my wii.but i dont thats why i dont play the wii. i dont like it…goodbye
i guess their trying to find a new reason to buy more EA games. at least we can say they are doing some different (although stolen). so microsoft is the new sony. if there really is anything slowing down the business its piracy like this boycott this “new” device (its okay to still use microsoft). Microsoft has a good thing going, really, sure halo is gone and nothing else is really replacing it, but the one thing they have is connectivity online and (gasp) offline. seems a lot of people forgot about using a lan line and just connecting the systems to avoid lag and what not. but i guess that was last gen. features.
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motion controls on the 360…can’t wait to see the RROD rate after this lol. Either way it would be bad. The 360 is just fine the way it is. A PS2 with great shooters with hyped up graphics that will soon be overcome by the PS3.
The 360 already won regardless of the Newton as is shown by the fact that it sells more games than the Wii and the PS3 combined.
Don’t let people fool you into thinking that number of hardware units sold means anything as there isn’t any real profit selling consoles.
It is all in the number of software units sold, movies downloaded, PAID subscriptions to online service and live games downloaded that prove the winner.
Now you can see that 360 dominates every single category that matters hands down. It’s all about the profitability folks….not who sells more systems.
GAME OVER…WINNER MICROSOFT!!!
When the next version of the wii console comes out (or when nintendo finally adds on a HD component and a HDD), the wii will pwn ps3 and 360. The wii is simply a test platform, and it blew up much larger than they anticipated. I can’t wait to see what Nintendo has up their sleeve in the coming year or so! Way to INNOVATE nintendo…. ever heard of that before Microsoft?
It’s all about cross platform games. It has nothing to do to boost hardware sales. Now the software companies can release their “mini-games” on multiple platforms. I have both systems and for multiplatform games I already choose the xbox 360 version for the better graphics and partly for the achievement system, but this may be the last bit that someone needs to decide. I seem to only buy 1st party titles for my Wii. Now if they could aim to get their price down on Motion games to $50 like Nintendo.