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Well, then lift your ass up Nintendo ! I could instandly name you a dozen games, using your very own franchises, that should be made for the Wii. | |
He does know that evetually you run out of people to peddle a system to which is why they make new ones? I'm sure if Nintendo could have still sold the NES like hot cakes we would still be calling Mario Bros 3 the best game ever. (Some still do anyway apparently). | |
I swear to God they come out with another Sonic game that doesn't involve exclusive high speed scenes, or a Mario game where he touches any kind of sports gear I'm going to blow up Tokyo. | |
I see a Sonic & Mario Fit in the making; complete with overpriced peripherals in the shape of hedgehog or plumber shoes | |
This. It's just stupid when there's no Starfox or F-Zero installment on the Wii. I'm sure some people would pay for a remake of OoT done with the Twilight Princess engine. I don't know, there's a lot of things that should be cross-platform but they aren't. | |
I swear to god I would buy another Wii if they told me I had to in order to get Starfox and F-Zero on the Wii. Not much even has to be visually done with it, that game run the Gamecube for all it was worth, and I would never take visuals over gameplay. Now just give us online play, extra tracks and racers, possibly a longer (and harder? Would that even be possible?) story mode, and you got yourself a million seller. That game practically makes itself. P.S. When Nintendo said their Zelda teams were 'hard at work', they didn't mean Spirit Tracks did they? Surely not, that's silly... | |
Well they are working on a Zelda for the Wii, and they're releasing Metroid Primes 1 and 2 on Wii as well (which I'll buy but I want to see a brand new 3d metroid as well).. I'd love to see an Fzero and Starfox Wii game too. | |
Maybe Nintendo should get back to its roots... Running brothels and printing playing cards (allegedly) for the Yakuza. | |
thank god your having no sales......My wii does nothing but collect dust since the last decent game was brawl. This is what you get for making games for the casual gamer and not gamers. They are casual for a reason, they don't BUY GAMES. Hopefully nintendo learns there lesson and does not try to appeal games to ppl that DON'T play games again. I regret buying my wii. It is a toy not system. | |
I know what could boost some numbers in those sales. Another entry in the Chrono franchise. It is one of the most demanded sequel to a franchise. That and: Kid Icarus | |
Japan's a small country with a cultural mentality that's fairly different from our own. The lack of franchises We want isn't necessarily an indicator for why the Wii's momentum may have slowed in Japan. After all, Brain Training was probably more responsible for the DS's runaway success in Japan than any of the titles created for the core gamer set. As far as I'm concerned, the Wii just needs a Brain Training type of hit and the Wii will be fine again in Japan. | |
What they need to do is make games that appeal to an older audience. | |
I wonder where Nintendo goes from here...the DS has had two remakes now, neither particularly different. Are they going to keep the waggling, touchscreen nonsense going forever, or are they going to be a normal gaming console and portable next generation? You see, the Wii was good for attracting casuals to gaming, but casuals aren't the type who will buy the next console. They already have a system, why would they need another? What Nintendo needs to do is make games that appeal to everyone. And that means rethinking video games entirely. They're experimenting with the idea, with concepts such as Wii Music, but failing. They need to come up with fun game ideas that don't hinge on violence if they're going to keep up their impressive sales. | |
I think this could be a good thing for Nintendo, because now they can't keep peddling systems with casual games because people are starting to stop buying them. If that is the case, then I think they should be executing the second part of their plan, which is try to get the user base they just created into moving up a rung on the ladder and picking up a non casual game. I seriously think that Nintendo needs to start developing more than just their flagship franchises, and maybe venture fourth into a new adventure game franchise or the like. That or seriously start making a star fox game before I throw my Wii out in disgust. | |
I think Nintendo would be well suited to go into abstract gaming. What do I mean? Think about when video games first started...the classic games such as Pacman and Pong that everyone loved. (and created no controversy) They didn't have a story. They were just really original ideas. What the industry is doing now with mainstream gaming, like the Xbox, is tweaking one concept over and over. Ever shooter is Doom with a new coat of paint. Every puzzle game is Tetris with the rules slightly changed. They add a story, change some models, and voila, game complete. What they should be doing is making a new mechanic all together. | |
One thing I cant understand too is that they made the good action game Disaster: Day of Crisis and didnt give it any marketing ! Nothing. I think its still unreleased in the US and even got bashed by Reggie ? WTF?! Nintendo really became more self-righteous then ever after the great year 2007 (MP3, SMG). Since then, the percentage of third party games in my Wii game collection is growing and growing and I am going to be unsure if I didnt bought a SEGA console instead... | |
Each person will probably only buy one Wii. Households might share a system. Once every household in Japan has a Wii you can't sell any more in Japan. | |
In what sense exactly is Japan a small country? They have both the population and the market potential for great things in the industry. | |
Well, they can't do Starfox, because that series ended (it said so explicitly in the recent one for the DS, Starfox Command). | |
The Wii needs some good games that do not revolve around mini-games or wagging the wii controller around. So far the only games i have bought for the wii are the old ones that can be downloaded for the virtual console. | |
While it isn't small in terms of population, the extremely small geographic area it occupies along with its almost entirely homogeneous population and uniformly high living standards give it a lot of the characteristics I think you can expect to see in a smaller nation, in terms of the way it functions culturally. | |
I know the jokes allready been done, but they do realize at some point everyone has to actually own the system. Now to release a HD model | |
They've more or less saturated their market, I think. Time to expand their market. To, y'know, gamers. | |
More or less, this is a summary of the Wii's situation. It's beloved by everyone who isn't a gamer, whilst the gamers look on with a mild sort of contempt. I think that this problem will easily be resolved with, I dunno, more games for gamers instead of housewives and grandparents. Besides: they've already sold all the consoles possible to everyone who wants one. The only way to improve sales is what Omni said: make a DSi equivalent of the Wii. | |
Maybe this means Nintendo can finally go the way of Sega. Their shitty, last-gen-in-disguise consoles can finally rest in peace, and the company can do something productive like make good games again or produce accessories like Wii Remotes for the other systems. Frankly, I have had it with the Wii, and am not sad to see it slipping. I think, long term, it's massive sales are going to force other companies to use their model of making shitty games for ever fuckhead on earth. Real developers that make real games are not going to get the funding or sales they need to compete, and we are going to enter a spiraling vortex of mediocrity worse than we've ever had. The repercussions for the Wii are going to be felt for a long time, and they have murdered gaming for everyone except dumbass housewives and their diaper-shitting spawn. | |
Sales for the Wii are slipping.....in Japan. People are buying more PS3's......in Japan. Guys, sales are slipping in freaking Japan, while the damn thing is still flying off the shelves everywhere else. Stop crying apocolypse for Nintendo geez Despite the fact my boycott of the Wii started with its renaming from "Revolution" to Wii, I have to disagree with you Naberius, Nintendo isn't going anywhere for a VERY long time. Sales for consoles are supposed to be sort of slipping this far down the line, normally the company has another console in the works, but its a normal pattern for consoles. Trust me, it really pains me at this point to be defending Nintendo, but seeing as I grew up with it I have to toss it a pitty shield now and again. | |
I find it strange that they are worried about consloe sales. Mabey it's just me, but i'd think most everyone that wants a Wii probably would bought one by now. they probably wont buy a second one, so of course sales will drop. And for PS3s increasing sales. Well it had always been assumed that people were going to wait untill certian titles came out for it. So as time went by, people who were waiting bought one, thus slower decline in sales. For my 2 cents I think the Wii is a fad, the gimmiks get old pretty quick so it dosen't really have any lasting appeal to me. Unless they release non-gimmiked games on it which it seems to be against contract to do. The DS used to have this problem as well but to some extent has grown out of it. But even if they did I'd buy it for one of the other systems for reasons of memory, graphics, contols, ect. In fact i'd go so far as to say my wii was pretty much dead to me after I got over the motion controls (this took about 2 months). The only games it has that I enjoy anymore are Wii exclusives that don't use the gimmiks. And I can only think of 2. | |
Then REBOOT the franchise. | |
Yeah, I dont see where the problem is: a) put it on the end of the storyline like they did with Metroid Fusion and let every other game happend before it b) make clear it is just "out of canon" to ignore it entirely | |
Am I going to be the first to say Mkay; Good for Sony :D I'd assume that the Wii sales have hit saturation in Japan right now, but I don't suspect that it'll do anything major to their entire company. They're still selling like legal cocaine, so this doesn't strike me as OMG THE WII IS TEH LOZING. | |
A lot of good that would do, Nintendo's HQ is and has always been in Kyoto. | |
Am I the only one wishing for new instalments from Nintendo? They do seem somewhat interested since they made Pikmin a few years back and have published a few mature games since (I.E. Eternal Darkness and Geist) | |
The weirdest part is, they wouldn't even have to spend a gargantuan amount of money to make a decent F-Zero game for the Wii. Granted, it wouldn't be exactly cheap, but it'd cost a lot less to produce than Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime 3. | |
I'll second that Honestly, maybe everyone already owns a Wii | |
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Nintendo President Says Wii in "Unhealthy Condition"
The Wii is still a chart-topping behemoth but Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says the system is in an "unhealthy condition" in Japan, where sales are slipping and it actually appears to be losing ground to the PlayStation 3.
Sales of the Wii have dropped almost two-thirds from the previous year, according to an ABS-CBN report, and for the first time in well over a year the PlayStation 3 outsold the Wii in sales last month. More than eight million Wii consoles have been sold in Japan but the company says sales are beginning to slow because of the recent lack of compelling new games to drive sales. "The speed with which people get tired of any new entertainment is faster in Japan than in overseas markets," Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said.
In the five week period beginning March 29, PlayStation 3 sales have jumped 80 percent to reach 146,948 consoles sold, while the Wii dropped nearly 63 percent to 99,335 units, according to Enterbrain numbers.
"The Wii is in the most unhealthy condition since it hit the Japanese market," he noted "The current condition in the Japanese market is not the one we want."
Despite slowing sales and the recent news that Nintendo has managed to reduce the manufacturing cost of the Wii by 45 percent, Iwata reiterated that a price cut "cannot really excite the market and drive up sales. As of now I really don't think that a price cut is a good option for us." Instead, the company is counting on the release of new games, like the Wii Sports sequel Wii Sports Resort, coming out in June, to reinvigorate the console.
via: Kotaku
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