Kris Erickson writes:
"Signs are showing that sales of the Nintendo Wii have begun to plateau and even decline slightly, following its meteoric popularity over the past 3 years. Beginning this March 2009, sales of the Wii console began to dropby as much as 17% when compared with the same period a year previously. Keep in mind that Nintendo is still selling a LOT of Wii consoles, just not as many as it did a year ago. The massive profits that the company has reaped from its Wii and DS machines means that Nintendo is flush with cash that it has been able to pump into an accelerated R&D program for a console that analysts are calling the Wii HD."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Interesting that Nintendo spent $370 million on R&D in 2007 -- more than the entire Wii research cycle combined. They must have spent that money on somthing good, not just the motion plus peripheral.
Yeah, I would love to play the new Metroid in full 720p.
I'm currently playing Okami ( yeah, I know, a little late to the party ) but damn the pretty graphics are really hurt by the resolution. Literally making my eyes tear for at least 10 minutes before they adjust. Metroid Other M better be on the Wii HD. Especially the graphic whores that Team Ninja are, you'd think they'd demand it. I'm demanding it. You've stalled long enough Nintendo. I would not be surprised if the new Zelda launched along side it. I would be more surprised if it didn't.
Not happening,what will be the point just for 720/1080 support? It's still going to look the same just a bit better like ps2 did last gen. Also it's dumb that it doesn't do it now which is sad because even ps2 can do 720/1080i.