Next year will be pretty tough for the Wii, until June 09 there's nothing coming out that will make HW sales increase. Then until holiday 2009 same thing.
It's gonna be a very rough year for the Wii in 2009 and with FFXIII coming out, I wonder what will happen. Maybe in holidays 2009 when Nintendo decides to support the Wii again and when finally MH3 gets released, things will get better, but one wonders if it will be too late. We know that SE and Konami will not support the Wii. SE could be providing some big hits, but they rather go bankrupt, that's a mental issue some of the CEO's got and it's very alarming. Nintendo is also there to blame, with no games that interest gamers for the most parts. They keep on releasing niche games that probably aren't gonna sell in Japan. Instead of releasing them in the West, where more people will end up buying them, they release them in Japan only and with what purpose? If no one buys them.
The only significant game coming out for the Wii in Japan in 2009 is Wii Sports Resort, no other game from Nintendo will sell more than 200k there in 2009. Maybe 2010 will get better, but this situation is truely worrying.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
