Kaplan: Neighbours do pot, Wii is not a fad look online

In a recent interview Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan revealed she was tired after her neighbours were up 'til 4am, smoking pot, and 'doing it' she even went on to refer to them as 'f**kers'. This woman sure has got heaps of class - NOT! Moving on she conducted the interview in her typical 'lazy' style and said the Wii is certainly not a fad, look online and you will see how much the Wii is becoming a part of people's lives whether it be to become fit or a focal point in a party. The following video also has small interviews from Sony and MS too!

[True Gamer]

There is no way the Wii can continue selling this much every day.

It is definitely a fad.

You can quote me on that in a couple of years once the sales slow down and it becomes just like the gamecube. ;)

[TheMART]

For the first time in a long long time I can agree with you on that one.

I think we'll even see the decline of sales in some months and at least this year. Although only 5% of all people own HDTV's so in that view, there is 95% of them out there, attracting to a larger group then the original gamers that could do with a Wii on 480p...

[Maddens Raiders]

being much more than a quiet niche machine that people (casuals) break out every now and again to fire up some party fun. I know it has sold quite a bit in its first offering, but this could be a foreboding sign akin to the Teddy Ginn, Jr. opening kickoff return for a touchdown for Ohio State and who can forget Devin Hester of the Bears doing the EXACT same thing - only for both of those teams to totally flame out at the end when it counted most. Yeah, I know it's an unorthodox metaphor, but the wii is not / and can not be / an 'everyday' game machine like the PS3 or Xbox360.

[ChickeyCantor]

o look the 360 and ps3 fans are talking!!!
noticed that the DS is still selling?
well thats going to happen to the Wii!

and dont even bother to call me an n-fanboy, soon i will own all 3 systems.

[TheMART]

One small difference between a handheld with tiny screens and a home entertainment gameconsole that uses big screens, doesn't it???

When HDTV's are being sold more and more, people want to display HD graphics.

Otherwise people would have sticked with 640 x 480 VGA screens on their PC's also... Content says a lot, but the difference between handhelds and playing at your bigass TV differs a lot.

Noticed that the Gamecube was also suffering being the weakest console around? And some other consoles of Nintendo... The gimmick with the controller is selling now, but won't hold the complete life cycle for sure

[TheExodus]

It might take some of us a while to move past the denial stage, but Nintendo no longer has any competition left in the console market & the Wii's sales reflect this. Were Libby's to stop canning corn tomorrow people wouldn't mysteriously start buying less corn at the grocery, they'd just buy more from Green Giant. With a $399 pricetag, 1 year headstart & bottemless coffers of Microsoft at its disposal the Xbox 360 has matured into little more than a Halo station for 10 million people who would have otherwise spent their money on a videocard upgrade for their PCs. Sony has painted themselves into an extremely precarious corner with the PS3, because at $599 it's going to require a 50% pricecut before rational consumers even begin to consider it as an option provided someone else (Atari, Sega?) doesn't swoop back in to reclaim what was once theirs.

But at the end of the day seek comfort in knowing that the Wii isn't a fad, it's just all that's left.

[hhuete]

NINTENDO IS FOR casual gamers,
I LIKE PS3 AND XBOX360
i am not amused by pointing a controller at a screen reminds me when i first got my game console, and my parents tried playing and they moved with the controller LOL
Although I cannot deny that Nintendo is selling like crazy !!!!!!!!!

xbox had had a year advantage and ps3 is struggling
this is far from over...

lets face it though, this is a family console, its not for hardcore gamers, i would buy this console for a little kid for a present and they would prob get sad because they wanted a ps3 or xbox360 lol

i cannot see real gamers playing with their mom and dad and having a good ol time

fi they do they are the same ones that still live with them and dont pay rent

hahahaha

[anthonsh]

You hardcores sure think a lot of yourself. If you're willing to buy that console that is twice the price and the label yourself as a hardcore gamer that is for some reason "better" than the people that are buying the nintendo systems, you better be ready to buy three times the number of games to prove it. Im a casual gamer and I own 5, plus 5 VC games. Have fun.

When you price your system so high that it rivals the price of a PC that can play the same / better games, you better be willing to compete with it.

[JHFKDFNFGJKFHDKF]

the Wii isnt competing with the 360 and the PS3.... its competing with the PS2 - so lets leave it in the last gen and focus on the important issues

[ChickeyCantor]

"Noticed that the Gamecube was also suffering being the weakest console around?"

o really?
how come they had to downgrade some things in RE4 for the PS2 port?
gcn was stronger then the PS2.
allot of people still dont even know what HD is!
if Casual gamer "X" got a DS it wont think any different about the Wii.
like if a casual GAMER could care about pretty images.
there is a difference in movies and gaming. A casual gamer would care more about how fun and easy a game is then how Pretty it looks.

360 needed a year to sell so many consoles, while the nintendo sold almost halve of the amounts that MS sold.
it just shows that the HARDCORE market isnt that big ;).
i wonder what you people be claiming if nintendo is still selling like this over a few years from now!

[TheMART]

RE4... that's about the only game that looked well on the Gamecube, can you name another game?

You're right, a lot of people only have CRT TV's. But HDTV's are sold now so fast, Philips just closed the CRT devision COMPLETELY. Try to find CRT TV's in shops, LCD's etc. are replacing them fast.

And why is the Wii selling? Because it's price is low, almost @ 200 dollars/Euro where the mass buys them. Wait till the 360 hits that price mate. Wii = just a supercharged Gamecube. Actually it's a Gamecube with a new controller.

You're all getting ripped by Nintendo over a motion controller... Nice that won't last selling at these numbers

[TheExodus]

Picked up the GC's entire Resident Evil library at EB Games & Game Stop this afternoon, along with Eternal Darkness. Every now & then you gotta feed the Wii some kiddy games ;)

[TheExodus]

The Wii is the only next-generation console on the market. MS skipped a generation with the Xbox 360 & set a premium price accordingly. Sony is leap-frogging three generations & hoping the consumer will be naive enough to swallow a $599 price tag up front with another $300 due over the next ten years. It really seems simple: 1. Market is willing to pay $250 during the early adoption of a new console & 2. Market embraces a new console with open-arms when it's price falls below $150. Problem for Sony is that they can't get anywhere near the market with the collection of bleeding-edge hardware that just had to be packed into the PS3's case. Futureproof? Please, there isn't a computer system that you could buy today at any price that isn't going to be collecting dust under a pile of shoe boxes in 5 years. I know I am about to repeat myself, but the Wii isn't competing with Xbox 360 or PS3 because Nintendo owns the market.

[ChickeyCantor]

"Wii = just a supercharged Gamecube. Actually it's a Gamecube with a new controller."

thats only what gamers know, but do casual gamers know that?
and RE is just a game to show that the GCN was stronger then the PS2.
if 360 hits that price the Wii will be lower 2, so people will be buying for sure along with there down priced 360.
and that would still keep the sailes high!

people wont be buying a new tv cozz there is HD on the market, they still use CRT's and will be using it untill it doesnt work anymore or they feel like they want a new TV.
maybe over 5 years HD will be standard but for now its a young market that still needs to get bigger.
and untill that time MS and nintendo already came with something new, sony is going for the 10 year plan so let them do that.

and so what ? if the Wii is an overcharged gcn? how the hell am i supose to play the exclusives like legend of zelda? metroid? mario bros etc etc ?
it the same reason im getting xbox360( halo3) and PS3( really dont know what it has to offer but untill 2008 i think ill have a better overview)

mart i know you like the 360 and i know you want evryone to get one so they can play live together, but realize that HD is still young and not this year and not the year after that evryone will have a HD.

if the xbox360 was an overcharged xbox1 i still would get it, how am i supose to play halo 3 if i dont get the system that has exclusives that other consoles are not getting?........
so no i dont feel screwed, i feel pleased with my purches.
Zelda to me was a nother masterpiece, and im sure ill be saying the same about halo3.

if the gcn was supported like the PS2, it would have sure killed the ps2 when it came to gfx :P

[TheExodus]

It's not the hardware inside the box that kept the Gamecube from selling, it's the box that kept the Gamecube from selling. Same thing with the original DS. I'm not sure how Nintendo managed to kidnap one of Apple's industrial engineers, but with the DS lite looking like an iPod & the Wii looking like a Mac Mini standing upright & proud... well, both of Nintendo's systems are now selling like iPods.

[ChickeyCantor]

that really wasnt my point, the mart said the GCN was the weakest console, but in fact the GCN was stronger than the PS2.
it was just a pitty it didnt got supported.

and its not selling cozz it looks like an apple product, its selling cozz the controller is different and its at a lower price. maybe hardcore gamers want a normal controller, because they are using a gamepad for years, but the same controller hardcore gamers use also scared casual gamers away. its a fact the new controller( wii-remote) is easy to use.....its like "point and click" in most cases and since people who dont game often move their whole body when trying to move the character in a moment where it goes fast( ever seen it in a race game how they start moving the game pad to the left and the right?...)
and thats where the motion tech comes in handy.
alot of people find it a gimmick, but do realize this gimmick can make the gaming market bigger.

[ALItheWISE]

Did the PS3 not rip off the is so called gimmick and put it in there rumble less controller????? Was the analog stick not weird at first??? and wasnt the rumble a gimmick too??? Do we not use all these things in gaming??? If you a true gamer you play all game consoles cuz they all have great games. Stop the hate cuz good ole nintendo is revolutionizing gaming once again as they always do and since there shiny black box is the best dust collector in the market all they can do is hate rather then try it out. Sony is still mad that the psp is getting P!ssed on by the DS which is alot weaker. O yeah wasnt the DS supposed to ge gimmicky too??????????????????? Stop the console hate!!!!!!!

[ChickeyCantor]

the gamers of today are all spoiled, they think high tech is equal to fun gaming.
alot have the urge to put their d*ck up their PS3 or 360, simply becozz they symbolize that as the only gaming machines.
they just dont realize that all systems are getting exclusives and if they just get all systems the more games you can play.
unless you dont have any money...... XD