GT Invisible Walls: Wii, biggest turkey of the year.

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dougsdad0629 said:
What I took away from the video is that Nintendo is making a lot of money and selling a lot of hardware, but who cares? The "hardcore" users (the ones who buy a lot of software) are incredibly alienated in favor of the "casual" users (who traditionally don't buy much software). The general disinterest of Wii owners in the vast majority of 3rd party software has basically forced 3rd party publishers to put out lots of low-risk shovelware and give their better efforts to PS3 and 360. It's ironic that the hardcore gamers who kept Nintendo afloat during the N64 and GC years are the ones being cast aside in favor of people who've rarely if ever picked up a controller before now and don't know Nintendo from their rear-endo.

 

YTD software sales in Americas (note that the Wii started the year off with a smaller install base than the 360):

Software Totals:

Console	Year	Total
	60,183,862	105,875,281
	59,308,766	136,944,441
	48,047,011	128,364,382
	29,645,611	47,492,113
	19,868,306	167,321,246
	12,965,474	57,481,862
	62,466	10,532,895
Total	230,081,496

I think these people are just angry that Nintendo is proving that they aren't as important as they think they are. Odd that "abandoning the hardcore" has allowed Nintendo to soar to greater heights than ever before. The more they cry, the more irrelevant they look.