How Grand Theft Auto IV Threatens The Wii

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon May 5, 2008 12:53 PM EDT

Article Source: Forbes

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Seeded by Michael Sautter

There's more to come: "It's [GTA IV] one of a series of good games that will each convince consumers that there is a lot of good content on the other two boxes," Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter says.

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I sort of find the premise to be ridiculous as it presupposes there wasn't already tons of good (and even blockbuster) games on the other two systems. Why should GTAIV kill the Wii when Gears of War (or God of War, for that matter) didn't? In any case, I get my Wii bloodbath on just fine with No More Heroes.

Also, players of GTAIV are not exactly Nintendo's target audience (No More Heroes, etc, notwithstanding).

Further, even if the Wii doesn't have the long shelf-life of the PS3 or X360 (meaning more and more people eventually migrate to them), Nintendo has made a profit on every one of them - which I don't think either of the other two can yet say about their systems. And just at the point where they start recouping that loss? Nintendo can come out with a Wii2, with better graphics, and some new whizz-bang must-have device the other two will be drooling to copy.

It's about profit, after all, not just market-share.

That having been said...Nintendo does suffer where third party developers are concerned (again, No More Heroes, etc, notwithstanding), and that, more than anything, will be its undoing. But it can be corrected. And while GTAIV is an example of that, it's hardly the only one - and it won't ever come down to "just one" anyway.

Besides which, I can't play Super Mario Galaxy on the PS3.

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