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Gaming industry gets high on Wiid
Written by Stephen Webster
Published on 03/06/2007
Originally from Binary Culture / [the-lowdown.net]
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So high, Sony and Microsoft didn't even understand what you just, like, were like, sayin' maann ...

Our good friends over at Nintendo-Philes have the scoop on a report out of market research company IDC which predicts gamers definitely have a taste for the sweet-N. IDC goes so far as to predict that Nintendo's system will outsell Sony and Microsoft in 2007 and 2008.

"With the Wii, Nintendo is abdicating the specification war, leaving Sony and Microsoft to slug it out between themselves for the hardcore market," said Billy Pidgeon, program manager of IDC's Consumer Markets: Gaming program. "We believe concerted efforts to broaden the appeal of videogames beyond the traditional enthusiast/hardcore base will deepen the industry's penetration. This is good news for an industry that seemed to be receding last year due to over-saturation of the core base."


Yes, it seems like the kids just aren't alright. Gettin' all hopped up on that Wiid ...



(Interestingly, the cute little graphic above is also a T-Shirt Hell graphic, so to avoid lawyers being dispatched on our happy-asses, you should just go buy the damn thing.)

Oh, and don't forget to pass that shit to the left, homie.

STEPHEN WEBSTER is the former Editor in Chief of Binary Culture and a columnist in Dallas, Texas. He also enjoys a good spanking - a VERBAL spanking of his political opponents during a debate in a public forum!

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