High profile Wii game bombing. Speculation of a Nintendo crash in Japan.

[Kenology]

axumblade said:

Kenology said:
Wow... there is just no shame in the journalist's games nowadays. They want Nintendo to fail so bad, or at least, go back to last place, that they'll point to anything as a sign of doom - even sales of Deca Sporta.

It's getting ridiculous.

Honestly, there is no difference then when it happens with the PS3 and the 360...This week may have been Nintendo Hate Week but there's a monthly article on the PS3 failing and before the price cut, it was the 360 that all the journalists were writing. I don't agree with journalists doing this at all but it's not just the Wii that gets singled out for the journalists articles on video games being doomed.

I'm not saying that the Wii gets it's 'hate-week' more or less often than the PS3, but rather, it gets hated on for much more trivial reasons.  Just this week we have doom-and-gloom articles based on three things:

- Wii sales 120k less in March '09 than March '08 - the Wii is doomed

- MadWorld < 70k - the Wii is doomed

- Deca Sporta 2 ~ 2.5k day one - the Wii is doomed

- GTA:CW 90k - the DS is doomed

When the PS3 has a 'hate-week', it's due to it's price being high or TRUE high-profile games not performing as expected... something truly worrisome.  None of the stories this week for the Wii hate have been news worthy at all.