Console battle heats up between Wii and XBox: Netflix, ESPN rumors up the stakes
Dur
so far this week, but not with game titles as you might expect. It
appears that both companies are making strides toward re-imagining
their consoles as multi-media gadgets, pushing their usability far
beyond the game realm. While initially the Wii and XBox have
influenced very different demographics � the Wii for family-oriented
gaming and a certainly advanced approach to gameplay, and the XBox to
the more hardcore gamers � the line between the two is starting to
blur...
Continued: http://tr.im/ConsoleB
Doug Jacobs
> (End User) - Both the Wii and XBox have generated a good deal of buzz
> so far this week, but not with game titles as you might expect. It
> appears that both companies are making strides toward re-imagining
> their consoles as multi-media gadgets, pushing their usability far
> beyond the game realm. While initially the Wii and XBox have
> gaming and a certainly advanced approach to gameplay, and the XBox to
> blur...
>
> Continued: http://tr.im/ConsoleB
Who really cares?
The head of Nintendo US said Netflix on the Wii is a waste of time and I
have to agree with him. Most Wii owners have never hooked up their Wii to
the internet and I doubt this new feature is going to convince them to
suddenly try.
As for ESPN on the 360...again, I have to sort of wonder why. I mean, if
I want to watch ESPN, all I have to do is flip the TV over to the
satellite box. If I'm using my 360 it's because I don't want to watch TV.
Does anyone out there look at the videos, commericals and related stuff on
Xbox Live right now? Most of it is stuff you can get elsewhere on the
internet, or just by watching TV, or is just uninteresting to me.
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It's not broken. It's...advanced.
Tempest
> In alt.games.video.xbox Dur <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
>
> > (End User) - Both the Wii and XBox have generated a good deal of buzz
> > so far this week, but not with game titles as you might expect. It
> > appears that both companies are making strides toward re-imagining
> > their consoles as multi-media gadgets, pushing their usability far
> > beyond the game realm. While initially the Wii and XBox have
> > influenced very different demographics ? the Wii for family-oriented
> > gaming and a certainly advanced approach to gameplay, and the XBox to
> > the more hardcore gamers ? the line between the two is starting to
> > blur...
>
> > Continued:http://tr.im/ConsoleB
>
> Who really cares?
>
> The head of Nintendo US said Netflix on the Wii is a waste of time and I
> have to agree with him. Most Wii owners have never hooked up their Wii to
> the internet and I doubt this new feature is going to convince them to
> suddenly try.
>
> As for ESPN on the 360...again, I have to sort of wonder why. I mean, if
> I want to watch ESPN, all I have to do is flip the TV over to the
> satellite box. If I'm using my 360 it's because I don't want to watch TV.
Actually you wouldn't.
They're talking about sports events that are not currently being shown
on ESPN and/or are only available on pay-per-view.
> Does anyone out there look at the videos, commericals and related stuff on
> Xbox Live right now? Most of it is stuff you can get elsewhere on the
> internet, or just by watching TV, or is just uninteresting to me.
It's just you.
Netflix on Xbox Live is very popular. I watch movies as much as I play
games and at any given time half the people on my friends list are
watching movies on Netflix.
And I'm seeing more and more of my friends using Last.FM. I'm
streaming music that I can't find anywhere else several hours a day
rather than listening to a radio or watching TV.
AGENT47
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Yeah I always scan all commericals, gameplay hint videos, behind the
scenes etc.
There's always free gamer pics or free themes in most of em.
Plus I won 400 MP when I entered one of those random movie trailers ,
I just downloaded gamerpics.
There's tons of extra content on LIVE I like to surf around a bit now
and then
Joe User
ESPN360.com is actually a website that you have to pay for right now.
Many cable operators are including free access to it for their
subscribers. I assume this would be the same type of deal except free
for all Xbox users. Of course with the Xbox you'd be able to watch it on
your TV instead of on your computer.
argento32
console"
Thats when I stopped taking this article seriously. Love my 360 but
honestly Project Natal and the PSWand are trying to capture the Wii
market and Nintendo has already beautifully cornered it.
Doug Jacobs
>> Does anyone out there look at the videos, commericals and related stuff on
>> internet, or just by watching TV, or is just uninteresting to me.
>
> It's just you.
>
> Netflix on Xbox Live is very popular. I watch movies as much as I play
> games and at any given time half the people on my friends list are
> watching movies on Netflix.
A much larger percentage of 360 owners have their 360 online already, and
have a Gold account for gaming purposes. I doubt very much there's a
significant number of people whose only purpose for having a Gold account
is to stream movies from Netflix.
The percentage of Wii owners who have their console connected online is
much much lower than that of 360 owners. For some it's because of child
safety reasons. For others they just don't care, or don't know about the
feature - which is my point - Netflix on the Wii isn't going to suddenly
convince any significant number of Wii owners to suddenly take their Wii
online.
From a marketing standpoint, it's nice to be able to say "yeah, we can do
that too" but honestly it's rather silly to spend resources supporting a
feature that not many of your customers are ever going to bother using.
WDS
> A much larger percentage of 360 owners have their 360 online already ...
> The percentage of Wii owners who have their console connected online is
>
> From a marketing standpoint, it's nice to be able to say "yeah, we can do
> that too" but honestly it's rather silly to spend resources supporting a
> feature that not many of your customers are ever going to bother using.
# Wii � 50.39 million, as of 31 October 2009 (2009 -10-31)
# Xbox 360 � 34 million,as of 2 October 2009 (2009 -10-02)
It's hard to get exact numbers but back in march there was an article
that said that about 50% of XBox360 users used Live and 29% of Wii users
used whatever the Wii thing is.
From a marketing standpoint, well, do the math.
.29*50mil == 14.5 million
.5*34 == 17 million
Almost a draw.
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