Busaiku on 17 March 2007
hanafuda said:
The Wii honeymoon is over in Japan.
Sales of the hardware are down week over week.
Why?
Three reasons.
1)
The Wii user base is all over the place, and Nintendo (and to some extent, third parties) don't know what to do about it.
2)
Too few games, and what is being released is either too shallow, doesn't fit the user base (Fire Emblem), or is just plain old crud. Certainly nothing resembling a killer app.
3)
Wii Sports. We've seen it. We've played it. Next please.
Super Paper Mario will give the system a boost for a few weeks, but I predict that will be short-term. After that? Well, looks at the release schedule and judge for yourselves.
I'm thinking it is most likely due to shortages.
Nintendo has been set to ship 6 million worldwide by the end of March, and between the NA and JPN, it's probably already more than 4 million between them. And there are also the PAL regions.
I'd say wait till around early/mid-April to really determine the status of demand. If the numbers continue to decline even then, it most likely is the lack of demand. But according to most reports as of now, it seems to be lack of supply.
