Is Sony PS2 is the Nintendo wii in India?

Author: | Balu | (186 Articles)

Balu is tech-Gaming reporter @DNA, Bangalore. He started Game Bashing as a personal blog, a few years back. He writes on PC gaming, Gaming scene in India apart from doing game reviews. Feel free to mail author or tweet him

[| Trying out free writing with this post… Wrote it in 15 min+10 mins to create image above..
so don’t mind the vague points |]

I was reading this story on tech2 on the launch of Hanuman the Boy Warrior, but what grabbed my attention was the last line of the story.

A action game based on the Mumbai gang wars will also hit the PS2 platform.

Now hold on… no one mentioned that before. I haven’t got any info on the game other than that tiny line I saw there. I am wondering why they did not try to get more details on the game. So what would it be comparable to? I don’t want to say Grand Theft Auto, after seeing the quality of Hanuman game.. They are trying to get people who have never played game before to pick up a controller.

The strategy just might work considering as PS2 costs just 7k, (the prices might fall to below-6k soon) while Wii costs around Rs20k. And that is a huge difference in price-sensitive Indian market.

So what made the Wii so popular?

1> Simplicity of games

Simplicity of Wii gaming came with the Wii-remote, no more button bashing just wave of the remote and you can score an ace. It is not that simple with a DualShock

2> Clean content

By clean I am referring to games which appeal to all age groups. Not 18+ or 16+ games which most parents would object to buy and rightfully so. The games which Sony is developing in India along with Indian developers come in this category. I mean look at them, one is a possibly preachy Hanuman game, then an educational game, there is also a game involving village sports like kabaddi. Their strategy seems to to encourage people who don’t know anything about gaming. (People like my parents =P ) to buy a game or a console for their kids or grand-children. And this just might work!

3> Low pricing

Sony beats Wii black and blue here. A difference of approximately 15k is definitely not a small one