Midway has has said that manufacturing delays of Nintendo's Wii has had a direct affect on the company's roll-out of software to support the machine.
In a conference call following the release of the company's Q3 financial results, vice president of publishing Miguel Iribarren said that products for the busy Christmas period have had longer lead times than necessary
"The demand for Wii product has put a pretty big strain on Nintendo's production capacity, and that has in turn, for us, turned into longer lead times for some of our Wii products," commented Iribarren.
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.
A company blaming other is really not professional stuff.
If you want good sells, then provide good products with high quality simple as that.
I find this funny simply because despite Wii shortages, it is STILL the fastest-selling home console in history. If the fastest-selling console in history is still creating problems for Midway's software roll-out, then they need to re-evaluate their internal processes.
ohh I get it... Midway is just trying to find excuses and trying to renew investors faith in their company.. first they promise PS3 will be the lead platform... then that they will make better PS3 games... and later that it's the wii's fault their games are not selling...
right... when was the last time or how many 3rd party game did super on a Nintendo platform since the N64? 3rd party developers know this... duhh... the wii already have a similar installbase than the xbox 360... what kind of installbase they want the wii to have before they start selling crappy games?
So... they assume no one has a Wii sitting in their house?
What a crock...