The Nintendo Wii is back on top in October after Xbox 360's Halo 3-driven spike. How can Nintendo maintain this momentum through the holidays and beyond? Next-Gen spoke with Nintendo of America's marketing chief George Harrison.
Next-Gen: Onto software, do you sense that third parties are becoming less wary about bringing games to the Wii?
George Harrison: We think so. Certainly there's a strong lineup of third party titles, and we're trying to encourage them to make them. But we're also trying to encourage third parties to take the time and effort to make something unique, not just to sort of throw something out on Wii because the Wii's the fast-selling system. I think the ones that have spent the most time in the box are the ones that are going to be the most successful this holiday.
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.
Are you sh!ttin' me?! I don't believe this. Everyone kept saying the halo effect WILL wear off but damn!!
The 360 only stayed on top for 1 Month?! Micro$oft definitely wasted their chance, because now only $ony can stop Nintendo with perhaps Final fantasy 13.... Of course Micro$oft will NO DOUBT still have big games coming but.... The only one left with Halo-Calibur is GTA4....
When will these "Can the wii stay on top?" so called "news" stop?
The wii remains on top, those questions will never stop. This is something that happens to every console thats on top though, so don't be surprised if they ask those questions next year.
It's the undertones behind the asking of "Can the Wii stay on top?" that is the problem. There is an undertone of "This product is no good", or "It's not the best product out there", "How can people buy the Wii? Surely it can't last." that is the problem. If the Wii becomes the next DS and continues to sell this ridiculously great for even another year, these same retards will ask this same question, for the same reasons. A pinhole view of life truly is pathetic.