Recent suggestions that the high-flying Nintendo Wii's days at the top of the console sales charts may be numbered are beginning to look less ridiculous almost every day, as more people in the know come round to that point of view.
The latest naysayer to pitch in is heavyweight business newspaper The Nikkei in an analysis piece headlined 'Software Houses Miscalculate Audience, Demand For Wii'. In the subscription-only article, author Tomoyuki Kawai reflects on a range of concerned voices within the videogames industry.
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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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everyone knows the wii only makes money for nintendo, it is a 1st party platform only for the most part. On top of that most folks purchased one just because it was the thing to have, they played it for a few hours and never touched it again, the WIIs days are numbered.
Fads end.
Didn't Capcom just announce that MH3 is coming to Wii? Developers shying away? Interesting.
EDIT: Disagree all you want, but Capcom still did announce MH3 for Wii, which does indicate against what the article is saying.
Duh, was meant to type against instead of towards, but guess I was distracted then.
like this one.
Isn't the theme of this gen "negativity"?
I have a strong feeling this will become reality. It's the same thing that happened with the N64 and Gamecube. Developers looked elsewhere and almost all of the must have games came from Nintendo themselves. I don't think Nintendo cares one way or the other. They already made a ton off of their new console. They "always" make money. More than the other 2 combined (profit).
I do think that they really did a disservice to their diehard fans by bringing out such dated hardware to power this console. The Wii is the first time ever I passed on a Nintendo made product. I crave hi def and 5.1 or higher. I don't want to hook up analogue when all my hardware is best suited for digital. After a long day I want to kick back and relax and not stand or sit off the edge of a chair waving my arms about.
But that's just me.
I can see that the lower development costs and bigger fan base makes the Wii a much less alluring prospect...
And then the 80 games coming out for it this quarter - just about double that of the 360 and PS3 combined - supports this claim...