Iwata (not laughing): ' We failed with the Wii'

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Ail said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

theprof00 said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

trestres said:

woopah said:

“We failed with the Wii. We were unable to continually release strong software, and let the nice mood cool. We were unable to show a new game to become ‘the next thing.’ In the game market, once you’ve lost the momentum, it takes time to recover. With the price drop, sales returned to a certain level, but they just did not reach the level of last year around this time. We decided that it would be difficult to sell enough to recover from the poor performance of the first half of the year. In order to reach it (20 million target), we’ll have to move quite a large quantity, but it’s a figure we released after having felt the momentum returning [based off the price drop].”

 

I really want to know what happened at nintendo. i always get the impression that they had a lot of games get cancelled or delayed which is why their 2009 line up is so thin.

 

im sure trestres will enjoy this

I don't enjoy Nintendo being down, but they deserve it. I do enjoy however, having been right for the past 2 years despite many blind defenders calling me a hater, a doomsayer and whatnot. This goes dedicated to all the people who criticized me for being a realist.

Actually you were only right for one year, lol, this year is the year they failed to keep momentum.

It's been apparent since 1 year in that this would happen.

Only since Wii music and Animal crossing has this happened in fact, without those failures and with some momentum maintaining expanded audience software, it wouldn't have happened, so like I said, one year.

blaming it solely on the relative failure of those titles does not take into account every factor.

Another factor is that this year the Wii entered it's second year where it was able to satisfy the demand.

As long as not enough Wii were found in stores this created a dynamic pushing some people that probably woudn't have bought one otherwise to purchased it.

However sometime this year the majority of customers have realized finding a Wii is no longer an issue ( the last shortage was last Chrismas) and the dynamics that were pushing some to buy it have changed....

It's not specific to the Wii, most of the  time there is a product which is unable to satisfy the demand, it drives the sales for that product...

 

I mean  noone else noticed that Wii sales started to slowdown in Q2 2009, the first quarter when you could finally find piles of Wii in every retailer ??

being able to satisfy demand is more symptom than cause, as the reason you can find Wii so plentiful, is because there is no software driving demand high for the system at the moment.