Nintendo Wii Stalking XBox 360

From this article statistics showing sales of the Nintendo Wii (on Sale for approximately 6 months now) are creeping up to the total sales of the XBox 360 which has been on sale since November of 2005.

There have been - worldwide sales of the XBox 360 of 10.86 million units. At present reporting there have been 7.29 million Nintendo Wii units sold.

The fundamental problem lies at two points.

1) Price.
2) Interactivity.

At the low price, consumers can take the risk of the Nintendo Wii being a piece of crap (it isn't). Although the baseline XBox 360 is only $50 US more, it lacks something that the Nintendo does have - which is the perception that it is fun for everyone.

Facing the fact, though, I do have a certain lack of understanding. As a program developer myself I understand that it really wouldn't take much to design your own controls that utilize concepts like the Nintendo Wii's controls. The software would take little longer to develop, granted.

It has been 6 months now, and except for some lame controller by Sony, neither Sony nor Microsoft have announced their own motion controller based initiatives.

Clearly, Sony and Microsoft beat Nintendo in graphics. It is not as clear that this dominance amounts to sales in units. In fact, the opposite might be true all things being equal except for the price of these advanced graphics.

No, the difference is the motion capturing controllers. Another difference are the type of games offered by the machines. Nintendo is definitely geared for fun and while depth and graphics quality might suffer - it is clear that people love things that put a smile on their face.

The dedicated gamers - seem like they are going to work when they play their games and the demands they place on their systems...