Well if everybody and their neightbor has a Wii... the Wii sales will stop because everyone has one.
PS: I dont have a Wii... and I dont want one atm... too manny things to play comming up my current console/PC.
Nintendo president: 'The Wii has stalled'
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Though it once appeared to be a tiny sales juggernaut, Nintendo's top-selling Wii console has struggled in 2009.
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Though it once appeared to be a tiny sales juggernaut, Nintendo's top-selling Wii console has struggled in 2009.
Nintendo said Thursday that sales fell 34.5 percent to 548 billion yen (US$6.09 billion) during the first half of its fiscal year.
Nintendo's slipping performance has not gone unnoticed by the publisher's president. As reported by Japan's Mainichi Newspaper and translated by GameSpot, Nintendo executive Satoru Iwata told analysts and investors as part of a post-earnings Q&A that a weak software lineup has contributed to the Wii's sluggish performance.
"The Wii has stalled," Iwata said. "Games of high demand could not be continuously released and the good mood has chilled." Iwata went on to note that it will be difficult to recover from "the slowdown in demand", but he also expressed optimism over Nintendo's ability to continue selling Wiis.
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that their market is not the hard-core gamer types that want a hardware refresh every couple of years. The Wii 2 would have to do more than just give better graphics to encourage Wii owners up upgrade.
It just has to encourage more developers to write games for it and the customers will come. Console sales follow the games.
Nintendo should focus on making development easier while improving the performance of the system and matching the motion sensing accuracy of the new PS3 controller.
If they combine that with good marketing sales will increase.
Also given it's appeal to females, doing something as simple of offering it in different colors could stir interest.
Nintendo should focus on making development easier while improving the performance of the system and matching the motion sensing accuracy of the new PS3 controller.
If they combine that with good marketing sales will increase.
Also given it's appeal to females, doing something as simple of offering it in different colors could stir interest.
that the market isn't already saturated with consoles, that there are still some people who do not have one who would be willing to buy one if and only if there were games that do not exist yet that suit them better than what's available. That may be the case, but I think there would be more money spent in R&D to figure out what would make these people buy than there would be in profits.
Also improving controller performance won't sell more consoles, it will just get those who already have them to upgrade their controllers if a particular game needs it (for instance, Wii Resort comes with an attachment that improves performance in the controller). There's not a whole lot of profit in that.
Also improving controller performance won't sell more consoles, it will just get those who already have them to upgrade their controllers if a particular game needs it (for instance, Wii Resort comes with an attachment that improves performance in the controller). There's not a whole lot of profit in that.
They don't have the kind of games that appeal to the hard core gamer. Making development easier will not address that.
Your color point is pretty good though.
Your color point is pretty good though.
I think the Wii has hit the saturation point and the recession isn't helping things. They should focus on games and accessories more now.
I know I haven't seen many compelling games, just lots of the same stuff.
I know I haven't seen many compelling games, just lots of the same stuff.
If I had a pound for every person who said to me "Yeah, we bought a Wii for the kids last Christmas, they played with it for a few weeks and now its under the stairs..." I would be a rich man.
I've had it for almost 2 years now. Now it doesn't get used a lot but there is a reason for that. Where are the games? Yeah they have lots of crap but nothing that has really got me wanting to play. I pretty much use Wii Fit for exercise in the winter months and play a bit of online Mario Cart. Where are the good games, there hasn't really been any for a while. Nothing that really captures my attention gets me playing constantly.
The Wii needs to develop more updated versions of Nintendo classics to appeal to Nintendo's loyal fans. A new Zelda adventure would certainly appeal.
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I have a Wii and I have to agree with the posts so far. Not enough games and not the type that appeal to most gamers. I do especially like the Wii Fit plus as I don't have a local gym to go to but that is a personal decision. Would love to see Pacman, mario and donkey kong re-built for the interactive wii console. Doubt we will see it though...also the price of the games is a little bit too high considering the market.
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