I don't see how a month including Super Mario Galaxy 2 would put the Wii's software sales in a negative light compared to other months.

Granted, it's no NSMB or Wii Fit, but it's still one of the Wii's best selling franchises.

Isn't he basically saying that sales are down because publishers aren't producing enough software for the platform?

That's what I take this statement to mean:

"but fear that other publishers have prematurely abandoned the very large Wii audience,"

He's not saying abandon ship.  He's saying publishers have already begun leaving the platform, which he believes is premature.

What is wrong with that?

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That's exactly what I was wondering.  I really need to just learn not to come into these threads any more

So it doesn't bother you that the Wii largely gets ignored where "serious" gamers are concerned because Wii owners ignore serious games?

Or that the Wii appears to be moving in a direction close to the N64's latter years--where the quality releases were so few and far between, it was like the system didn't even exist anymore? 

Pachter clearly dislikes the Wii, but when you compare the Wii to another successful console, like the Playstation, Playstation 2, or SNES--it's clear that the Wii is poorly supported by third party companies, and by owners.  Except, of course, for games released by Nintendo and a lot of that casual crap.

I'm pretty sure that if you own a Wii and an Xbox360 or PS3 (or all three), that these days we're playing the HD console way more.  I know I am.  The Xbox360 has more games, higher quality games, and a much higher number of highly rated titles.  The Wii still has only 10 games averaging a score of 90% or better compared to 29 on the Xbox360 and 26 on the GameCube (via Metacritic). 

The Wii certainly isn't the high-speed sinking ship Pachter makes it out to be, but just like the N64, once again, it's largely supported by just Nintendo.  When 3rd party companies tried to make games for the Wii, casual folks and Nintendo fans ignored them, thanks to ignorance of gaming and what I can only surmise as elitism, respectively.

It would be illogical thinking to just blindly assume Nintendo is always doing great while ignoring signs of struggle.  Healthy cynicism never hurt anything.  Gross optimism, however... Sure, they had a great E3, but that was entirely due to the 3DS and the strong 3rd party support the 3DS has so far.  Which I'm sure will be squandered in favor of a game re-released and lightly upgraded from 13 years ago.

I think the SNES was the last time Nintendo had a console that didn't just fizzle and die lamely the last two years of it's lifecycle.  The N64 was on life support as it died of starvation the last two years on the market, the GameCube was the same way, and the Wii is approaching that as well.  Meanwhile, the Playstation, PS2, and Xbox managed a plethora of healthy releases and sales beyond their generally assumed "end date."

But whatever, I guess.  Saying anything bad about Nintendo around insanely worshipping Nintendo fans is akin to drawing pictures of Mohammad and mailing them to Mecca.  Dissent and differing views shall not be tolerated.  Because Nintendo never does anything wrong *coughvirtualboy64ddgamecubeonlinewiionlinewiiflashmemorygbacardreader thirdportunderthegamecubethatwasneverusedevilbotcheddealwithsonyforadiscdrive whoringoutbelovedfranchisestophillipscdipowerglovetrackmatwiispeaketcetcetccough*.

The problem with your argument is that you are equating mediocre 3rd party support to meaning a console is dying.. 3rd parties are not the end all be all of console success, I think Nintendo should have proven that by now with the huge success of the Wii. In fact, most 3rd party companies can't make games equal of quality to Nintendo's anyway (which is probably why many have given up).

NOTHING indicates the Wii is anywhere near dying. It is currently outpacing the PS2 in terms of both hardware and software. It has a chance to be one of the highest selling consoles of all time, if the the highest. And yet you are equating it with the N64 and Gamecube? LOL give me a break..

But if you really want to use the 3rd party argument (because that is all you have left against the Wii), let's look at some of the titles coming.. Conduit 2, Epic Mickey, The Grinder, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Xenoblade, The Last Story, Goldeneye, DQX, Arc Rise Fantasia, De Blob 2, Lost in Shadow, Samurai Warriors 3, LOTR: Aragorn's Quest, NBA Jam, Ravving Rabids Travel in Time, DJ Hero 2, Sonic 4, Sonic Colors, Just Dance 2, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Flip's Twisted World, Tournament of Legends, Legend of the Guardians, Tales of Graces. Some other quality titles like Monster Hunter 3, Little King's Story, No More Heroes 2, Red Steel 2, COD: Reflex,  Tatsunoko vs Capcom, and Fragile have also come out recently. This doesn't exactly look like the lineup of a dying console to me.

Of course it's much weaker than Nintendo's lineup. But this will always be the case for Nintendo consoles until Nintendo games start going down drastically in quality. I think the Wii is proof that 3rd parties no longer dictate the market leader, like in the PS1 and PS2 days.

This is why I hate Patcher. His delusional arguments breed more delusional arguments like this one.

Thank You for having common sense. They tried this once before about which system users are connect online more. Saying the Wii was dead last. The PS3 and 360 had like over 70% while the Wii online had 53%. 53% Percentage of the 70 million plus user base is still more people online. Compared to 70% of 40 million and 70% of 35.