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Are Wii Players Babies?
In an interview with the New York Times, John Rodman, group product manager for the Xbox platform and Xbox Live, took a swipe and said:
“We don’t feel like the Wii
customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing. We think that as soon as the
Wii customer turns 14 they want something else.”
Meow! The comments seem 
like sour grapes to us since the Wii and the
older Nintendo DS are trouncing both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 in US sales right
now. For instance, in February the PS3 and Xbox 360 sold 127,000 and 227,000 units, respectively. The Wii managed 335,000 while the older DS handheld racked up an astonishing 485,000. Do you think there’s a connection?
Labelling the Wii as a platform for kids is simply not fair though since we have
reports of lots of adults and old people using the Wii. OK, the old people
might wear nappies too but that doesn’t make them babies, does it?
There are plenty of videos of toddlers playing with the Wii: http://gigglesugar.com/189250
Say no more.
My grandma, who's 92, prefers the DS (she likes the brain game that lovely Chris Tarrant advertises...)
Posted by: Emil Larsen | March 30, 2007 3:18 PM