Wii Failure, How Apple Beats CES, HD DVD Winner, Product of the Week

Had Nintendo been able to meet demand, it would have ended the year so far ahead of the other players that it could have dominated the console and handheld game player market. However, by missing, everyone stays in the game. This is going to hurt in 2008 as the other folks bring their prices in line with the market.

[destroyah]

sorry but with Warner/New Line Cinema now Blu-ray exclusive, HD-DVD will only continue to fail. Blu-ray is absolutely murdering it.

[RIPHDDVD]

lol

[Auron]

I can play both so I'm ready for anything

[ravinash]

I think he was trying to drive at DVD still doing so well compared to the HD formats. But I think he's a little out of the lop as he made no comments on Warner going exclusive and the ratios between Blueray and HD-DVD sales.
basically he’s someone trying to make comments about stuff he hasn't researched.

[actas123]

It seems like the writer wrote this article a year ago, he however lost it, and found it today morning...

[MK_Red]

lol, good one.
Bubbles for you. But seriously, even last year Wii was doing really good. Even though shortages seem bad, they are actually making the market more hungry for Wii and in long term, it might be much more usefull than harmfull. And really, selling out is never failure. It's success as far as I know.

[pcz]

its funny how even when the wii is the obvious winner of this generation (so far,) people try to take credit away from nintendo and call them a failure. people say (and probably wish) that the wii will die a miserable death this year, just like they said and thought last year... the wii is a winner not a failure

[GodsHand]

No Nitendo Wii's around yet everyone(almost everyone) wants one. If thats failing then, I dont want to be succesful.

[bootsielon]

The Twilight Zone

[bootsielon]

It's written by Ron Enderle. Not only has this guy supported HDDVD before (he said it'll win), but he worked for Microsoft once. We should move on. That's like making stories of Zhuk's posts.

[pcz]

"This is going to hurt in 2008 as the other folks bring their prices in line with the market."

does that mean i'll be able to get a ps3 for £179?

[Iceman100x]

It is already dominating you idiot.

[Lmann]

Is a moron!!

[Fighter]

Rob Enderle is a big joke. He's clearly delusional and losing his mind because Warner broke his itty bitty heart. He also shows up in the dictionary under the word 'Douche'.

[Fighter]

double post

[Fighter]

triple post *yells at PC*

[Bonsai1214]

last year, when apple held a press conference or something during CES or some other trade show, all the press left to go see apple's presentation.

anyways, Wii failure kinda detracts from the article.. so i stopped reading.

oh, and macworld expo is right around the corner.. i can't wait!

[tk]

This guy never ceases to amaze people with his amazingly bluntly wrong analysis.

Wii a failure? Even the most die hard fanboys agree that the Wii is a success. OK, well, maybe Rob Enderle and five other trolls here on the forums... but still... any clown claiming the Wii failed must be from some other planet...

HD-DVD winning? Wow!!! Even the most die hard fans here are licking their wounds - and admit to it. Yet Rob boy sees a victory? Maybe he is the Iraqi Information Minister in disguise. Tanks rolling in (beaten in every category, losing support), and still claiming to be repelling the enemy (winning the war)... just absolutely wow...

But then... check this guy's history. He is a MS fan disguised as an "analyst". With a market breakdown of only 0.1% market share for HD-DVD he will still be claiming victory...

[wiizy]

most analyst are blind idiots for 2008 they receive so much garbage sony fanboys emails that they actually think ps3 somehow will get great numbers in 08.. listen to me. its not going to happen... wii will destroy the competition in 08.. with sony coming last as usual behind 360..

[forum_crawler]

This guy is funny...

[pwnsause]

What The F*&*!?!?!?!?!?!?! what was this guy getting high on while watching CES?????

[name]

The Wii: The only console that generates doubt by achieving success.

[_Jedge]

if this guy (Rob Enderle) writes for a tech site, he better do way more research and a better job

1.Nintendo is dominating
2.Blu Ray will be the winner
3.Addonics Zebra HD Combo Drive, I personally think its a bad deal.

@2 you made me laugh man. Bubbles for you!

[HardcoreGamer]

after playin the wii for about a month then packing it away all together (not literaly) i only put ti on when friends came round, heck this xmas i went to my friends n played his as he just got one over xmas, its a great thing, but its less of a gaming console and more of a toy, its geared towards something else other than just your usual home console entertaiment, console entertainment started trend from theh days of having Arcade gaming at home, for its relative generation, i am 23 years old so im not going to be too much into the kids stuff, n zelda and mario really isnt my thing, but i will be playin next gen stuff like on ps3, n dont get me started about 360 it recently frucked up on me.

[smashballs]

Sad attempt at making the Wii look like anything less than complete and utter pwnership. All right, so it's not THAT great, but still. They fail to see that Nintendo could have made as many as they want and they didn't "miss out," they are engineering the demand. When you make something scarce, people just want it more. Ask any of those idiots that bought a PS3 for $3000 and I bet they'll tell you that poop tastes good and it was worth getting one at lauch.

[ITR]

The Wii sold almost 20 mil this yr...how is thia bad?
They make mucho money off the DS and Wii..so what is the money issue.

This guys seemed to have forgotten about Macworld coming up next week for Apple.

Apple just released new Mac Pro's today, but no Blu Ray option.
If it's not on the big machine then it won't be on any of the laptops either coming out at Macworld.
Like I said before, BD got rumored last yr and it fell through and it did the same so far for this yr too.