The New York Times have published an article titles "The Year of the Simpler Gadget" on 20 Dec 08.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business...=1&ref=business

The article has tried to explain Wii sensation in the US.
Avid gamers will noticed that there is some error in the articles,
Nevertheless the article summarized the market sentiment really well.

The article argue that consumers have shunned complicated and expensive gadgets
for affordable and simpler one.
Look at how the market abandon PS3 for Wii this year,
and how expensive SUVs sales tanked, while cheaper fuel efficient cars sold in loads.
You will see a trend here.

What is your view?
Discussion encouraged.

P/S
To the Fanboys that wanted to call this article "Bullshit" and start flaming,
please note that "The New York Times" is "THE" newspaper, beacon of great journalism.
If they are talking "Bullshit", your game magazine is "truckload of Dinosaur shit".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times

Next year will be PS3's year, no point arguing any further. PS3 is a god machine. While 360 and Wii run on electric power, the PS3 runs on faith.

NYT? Nah, we should be reading Utusan Malaysia for the most accurate information

OMG!

Seriously, I haven't seen any console that needed so much faith to survive. 'Next year will be PS3 year' has become a motto for Sony and fanboys since 2006.

But seriously, I don't really agree with 'simpler gadget', it's more like 'cheaper gadget'. Everyone like to have high tech gadgets, or else it would defeat the purpose for gadgets in the first place. But with the current state of economy people are willing to settle for cheaper gadgets.

Yes.... PS3 is a piece of beautiful, powerful and well crafted console.
Just that it is simply too expensive for the general consumers.
It now required massive faith for it to survive.... has it become today's 3DO?

When something is Cheap, u know, chances are they are simpler...
And Cheap stuffs are what required of this difficult times.
Nintendo hit a jackpot with Wii,
ASUS hit jackpot with Eee PC.

I would thing people should look at the console wars a little closely.

IBM designed all their chips.

In a war, its the weapon makers that win.

Chip making business is just a small part of IBM.
IBM share price hardly drop even when Apple dump
PowerPC chip for intel's one.

IBM make bulks of their monies from Service, enterprise software,
and to a lesser extent high end servers.



This post has been edited by neogeocdz: Dec 22 2008, 12:13 PM

Utusan Malaysia??
swt la...all they create is only propaganda...
btw, i can see the trend there...dis is due to the participation of female in the market

Do u think female drivers go for cars with high horsepower? Nope, they go for something simple, something more practical...
With the introduction of Wii and DS, the number of female gamers has gone up...not to mention Wii is catered for everyone from young to old...

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Added on December 22, 2008, 12:24 pmoh ya, forget to mention about laptops...
nowadays, laptop makers are going for stylish design to attract female users...

seems like it's undeniable that the female users market is a huge resource to be tapped, and many company are heading that way now

This post has been edited by evilhomura89: Dec 22 2008, 12:24 PM

yes i think evil got a point.... even sony is shifting their focus to the casual market, sony purists can deny all they want but the signs are there. they are targeting casual and female gamers now with their aging ps2 and axed BC when they introduced the lower cost 40gb units. un-surprisingly, the 40gb proved to be their best-selling SKU till now.

why did i bring up BC? because only the hardcore gamers will consider that important and refuse to buy the current SKU without it...

Guys willing to spend lots on a single item they want.

Girls are willing to spend lots for items that's cheap.

Undeniable fact.

True.
And girls went crazy when they see Oprah Winfrey standing on that WiiFit,
or when Nicole Kidman playing a DS.


Clever marketing. I wonder why don't SONY get Sarah Palin to play Killzone 2,
it will send at least 42% of American flock out to buy a PS3. You betcha!

Another facts, gals like spending money of stuff that matches their clothes (so called fashion sense) even though the stuff is useless or impractical...

You will die if your wife see this.

don't worry...until the time my wife sees this...mayb kopitiam already V120 or more...and this thread will be missing

Yep.. agree with that although wii in malaysia sells at almost the same price with PS3.

PS3 lose out on 360 because the XBOX online infrastructure is much more develop, though I dont own an xbox I think its almost equivalent to PC online experience.

Everyone lose out to wii. Because wii is simpler and cheaper.

But if you look at top games. Xbox wins. Wii games has more shovelware.

But wii has more new players, and these people kept old quality games for wii selling, and not really dying out..

doesn't work that way anymore, sony ps3 is so undeniably hardcore that you can't even get the coolest celebrity to endorse your product without looking like a geek.

Har?? But Sarah Palin is the sexiest hottest Politician that go HUNTING, kill animals,
and drive big truck up in Alaska wor....
(Although she lost the presidential election)

Even that won't save PS3 in your opinion?

i want to see our Dear PM.. @8du||@h playing PS3 on national TV and promoting PS3.. sure alot of ppl buy..

Doesn't happen with my gf.

Simplicity seems to have won the hearts of people. Heck, if there was an automated beer handler made for us, the fridge would be too far to go and take it.

If i'm new to Wii of course i will agree la with the article...but after a long time with it..I was bored to tears with it already..the reason i'm keeping it is bcoz errr...wah i dunno.

I'm pretty happy with my PS3 rite now. Not a single day of regret There's lots of things to do on it...