How Grand Theft Auto IV Threatens The wii

Analysts are predicting that Take-Two Interactive Software (nasdaq: TTWO - news - people ) will make $400 million this week on sales of 6 million copies of the crime-drenched videogame. Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is eager to exploit the game, paying $50 million in advance royalties for the right to release exclusive content online. The title also promises to revive interest in the Playstation 3 gaming console, with game critics saying the game looks sharper on Sony's (nyse: SNE - news - people ) console. But the game is a bust for Nintendo (other-otc: NTDOY.PK - news - people ): not a single copy of the game will be played on the Nintendo Wii.

[Zhuk]

GTA IV is only the first nail in the coffin for the Wii as the Xbox 360 continues to gain traction against its inferior rivals. Consumers want the highest quality gaming experience possible and that's only possible on the Xbox 360

Sell your ductaped Gamecubes and Jump In

[DarkSniper]

Grand Theft Auto III finally gives gamers the immersive experience they need with the superior motion controls of the SIXAXIS. With PLAYSTATION® 3 slaughtering Xbox 360 in worldwide sales and capturing the casual audience with unique, quality games. Sony has given a dire gaming market fresh air and will continue to march foward with superior GTA sales. Only PLAYSTATION® 3 gives consumers what they truly want and need in a platform.

Sell your ductaped Gamecubes and P L A Y B 3 Y O N D

$niper

[kosha]

All right they might have the same graphics but the way you play the games is completly diifferent. Its motion sensing for gods sake. You cant get much more different than that

[MrBii]

But in what way have they been truly utilized. Its been 1 year and a half and not one game can truly say to have taken full advantage of its controls. Not even NINTENDO games have truly taken advantage of its control. Aiming Links bow? So all that gimmick is used to aim a bow that you use once in a while?

Bro, when Nintendos biggest flagship title, Smash Brawl, is best played on a Nintendo Gamecube controller, I think thats enough said.

The wiimote is too inaccurate for mature FPS like COD4 and is only best used for mini games like wiisports. Its just not advanced enough (yet) to really take videogaming into that next step. Unfortunately for Nintendo, by the time the technology is there, Microsoft and Sony both have jumped on it. See the news about MS and Sony's motion sensing technology.

So Nintendo is running out of time. And I believe the wii is on a bubble that is going to burst by the later Q3 - Q4 of 2008.

There is simply not enough mature triple A games on the wii to keep the people interested.

[kosha]

ok i agree with the fact that the games on the wii havent taken full advantage of its cappabilities but at the end of your comment you said that its not keeping the people interested. If you hadnt noticed the wii is the best selling console at the moment. People dont want mature games anymore they want a game that you can have a quick blast with and then its over. They dont want deep story telling and inutive gameplay which is a real shame tbh

[ItisI]

Wasn't Halo 3 meant to be the Wii killer. And Lair. And the "fact" that the year 2007 was meant to be the Year of the PS3. I haven't seen any of this come true yet and cannot see it in the near future.

[wolfehound22]

Well first off they said "The title also promises to revive interest in the Playstation 3 gaming console" um pretty sure the past few months there was a ton of consols selling. Now these article are completely stupid. Now there are hardcore gamers that buy the Wii I have one, but most of the people that only have them aren't in anyway interested in GTA4. First a lot of kids own a Wii so they aren't even old enough, and on top of that older people own them and they have no interest. GTA4 is meant for men 18 - 40 and most of those guys if they own a Wii more than likely own one of the other systems or will be picking one up, so this article is completely stupid.

[green]

GTA4 does not pose a treat to the wii in anyway what so ever

[Denzelio]

mmmm 'treat'

Er yes well there is a tiny little negative for the Wii, unlike 360 and PS3 - Nintendo can't say they sold any additional hardware as a result of GTA 4's release.

[MrBii]

Dont ever say we didnt told you so. We told you so from the beginning.

No God of War, No GRAND THEFT AUTO, No Final Fantasy main series, No Metal Gear main series, no Tekken main series, no Resident Evil main series, no Gran turismo main series, no SOCOM, no resistance, no bioshock, no unreal tournament, no gears of war, no Call of Duty, no mature JRPG, no Streetfighter etc.

Games that you took for granted. But they will never appear on Nintendo wii. You get a wii. And all you get to play is Zelda remake, Mario remake, Brawl remake and Kart remake.

It is a given that major 3rd party franchises are not going to appear on the wii. So dont ever say we didnt told you so.

[Jack Bauer]

the kind of people that buy a wii dont play GTA... the kind of people that do play GTA with Wiis, own a 360 or ps3 too, i dont see it threatening the wii... different markets.

[xhi4]

did he really just write that?

you must be kidding, that was the most bs article i've read in a long time!

[DR-IVO]

I dont consider the Wii a threat to 360 or PS3. The only reason the wii is so popular is the price, the unique style of playing and most buyers are people who barely play video games, those that never played before and children.

many of the game releases are just completly boring and horrible, many are children related and its the same games coming out each time.

i own a wii myself and dont play it, I want to sell the thing but no one wants to buy it because everyone says the samething I do about it.

[jones smokey]

yeah more ps3 and 360 will be sold because of gta4 and some wii players will want gta4 but it will not do so much damage, i thinnk what will do damage to the wii is a ps3 price cut to £150 or £200, which will never happen until a few years, il say next year summer or winter.

[uie4rhig]

i don't think GTA IV threatens the wii, tho i've always said the wii will be incomplete without GTA IV!!

[cheetorb]

The Wii is for moms, grandparents, and rehabilitation patients. PS3 and 360 are for people who like video games like GTA.

[IzKyD1331]

a friend of mines is actually quite upset that he doesnt have a 360 or PS3(he has a Wii)

[Knightofelemia]

The wii poses a threat to itself. The console is hard to find here in north america. people can only wait for so long then they loose intrest in a console.

[jinn]

the wii cannot handle the sweet graphics

[Lionsguard]

The only thing the Wii has got going for it is it's price. If the PS3 and the 360 were as inexpensive or just 50 bucks more than the Wii, no one know wtf a Wii is.

[Axelay]

Should i remind you that the x360 cost less than a wii (in japan and Europe)? And it doesn't seem to have change anything.

[TunakTunakTun]

Metal Gear Solid 4, God of War 3, Final Fantasy 13, Final Fantasy Versus 13, Killzone 2, Resistance 2, Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank Future, LittleBigPlanet, inFAMOUS, HAZE, Tekken 6, The Agency, LA Noire, GTA V, ICO 3, Motorstorm 2, Twisted Metal, SOCOM, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword, Gran Turismo 5, Crysis, Linger in Shadows, The Protector, Tears of Blood, Wardevil, Heavy Rain, Eight Days, The Getaway 3...

Threatens the 3fixme

[IzKyD1331]

im a PS3 fanboy, but that was kind of unnecessary

[599 US Dollars]

LMFAO. really? Go watch an HD comparison video, moron. PS3 is BLURRY and not even HD.

Way to spread lies, Forbes, you stupid f*cks.

[miganda]

people need to stop trying to link the wii with ps3 or 360.the wii is just moving along doing its own thing barely even knowing what hard core gamers want to play. nintendo believes you either do it their way or get the other systems. if they cared for 1 minute what gamers wanted, then the N64 wouldn't have been cartridge. not to mention the monopoly they had in the late 80's early 90's dealing with 3rd parties harshly. maybe thats why they get craped on buy 3rd parties now. i'll be the 1st to start this and hope others will follow. let ninty be what they are and stop trying to fit then into some thing there not.

[Axelay]

How can a game threatens a console even if it's Gta (it will not sell 40 millions guys), this console sold more than the others each months easily, they sell more games than the others and nintendo could sell more if they could produce more.
And for the price: xbox is cheaper in europe and doesn't sell more in fact when a console has a momentun, no game can't change that (remember the n64).
You should enjoy the games because it's a great game but don't fool yourself wii is in top.
Deal with it and get a life.