Does Nintendo have something bigger than Wii Sports Resort for X-Mas 2009?

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SHMUPGurus said:

Soriku said:

SHMUPGurus said:
Why would they have to release something bigger for the Wii? It's all about the DSi if you want my opinion.

To...you know...increase sales for the Wii in Japan where it's not doing so good? Or to maintain a good lineup so people don't migrate to other consoles so easily?

What does Japan like though? "Traditional" games don't sell there anymore. I remember Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy not selling so good.

They do, DQS which was a poor DQ spin-off went on to selling 500k. RE5, Yakuza 3, MGS4, MHP2G, all the FF spin-offs are selling great. What doesn't sell good are the smaller new IP's released for the Wii recently because there's not an audience that's willing to buy those games. Wii needs a big core game to gather such audience. Check what MH and the FF games did to PSP. Now almost any decent game sells great on the PSP because an audience that buys those games was built.

Wii was sold mostly to new gamers with Wii Fit, Sports, Play in mind and to the more traditional Nintendo fan looking for Nintendo IP's. People who bought the PS3 initially were the core gamers migrating from the PS2 mostly and knew about all these games beforehand that's why you see great SW sales. No one bought the Wii in Japan under the premise of huge core games, in fact not even devs thought the Wii was going to be that big, outselling the PS2 for the first 2 years. Even Nintendo underestimated, but they recently got too much confident and let the comfortable lead turn into a tough battle. Big games need to start rolling in order that a big core fanbase can be built.

I'm tired of repeating this but I believe that's what's happening to the Wii in Japan at the moment and Nintendo doesnt have too much time left to bring up sales to the levels at which they were for the last 2 years.