Iwata admits Wii's first half of 09 was very poor.

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Kasz216 said:

noname2200 said:

Kasz216 said:

I thought they were collected per title produced.

Also keep in mind Nintendo i believe is the only producer of Wii discs.

Yeah, but they only get a royalty for each third-party game sold, whereas they get the whole enchilada for first-party games. Financially, first party >>> third-party. Plus, Nintendo's not exactly the type of company that screams "neighborly" to me. They may not be as openly greedy as before, but they're not exactly humanitarians either...

Don't that stand to make more also by releasing their titles at X-mas?

Not as much as other companies (evergreen titles and all that). Plus, you have to remember that Iwata publicly said that he expected Wii Music and Animal Crossing to be much bigger than they were. They thought they had their holiday mega-hits lined up. They just misread the market.