Wii now has 75 Million Sellers!!!

[SaviorX]

jarrod said:

SaviorX said:

jarrod said:

SaviorX said:
Wii software is in pretty big trouble. The retailers put new titles on the bottom of the shelf, with a ton of shovelware- in other words, there relatively isn't any shelf space allocated to the good stuff.

Unless the truly low budget games are removed from the shelves, they will literally kill everything not promoted on a NSMB/Just Dance level. People cannot find the 7 and above titles above the crap. I'm dead serious, somebody has to do something to get titles like Titanic Adventure Party off the shelves.

Nintendo's new budget line in Japan seems structured to counter this sort of thing actually.  Maybe they'll do something similar for America and Europe (ie: a user rated "Best of Wii" line).

That's good but it isn't enough.

They literally have to PHYSICALLY REMOVE these games off the shelves, because they are NOT selling, and only limit the amount of space that could be given to GOOD NEW titles. I saw poor Sky Crawlers at the bottom of the shelf, and its not even two weeks old........

Well, retailers like Target and Best Bey are seeing the issue too, and starting to place orders accordingly.  There's not going to be any easy solution to the "shovelware problem", it's going to take multiple responses working in concert.

Maybe Nintendo should also raise the approval process on new titles.  I'm generally against moves like that (lest we end up with a situation like Nintendo on NES or SCEA on PS1/PS2) but I dunno, there IS a ton of crap clogging shelves. :/

I wonder if they could request that retailers take titles  off shelves if they don't sell within a certain time frame. If the same copy of Chicken Shoot is on the shelf after 150 days, and no other copies of the same game are purchased, it should be removed.

 

Limiting third parties is a bad move, but Nintendo has shown that they embrace the real hard workers. It will be much easier to differentiate the winners from the losers now with all the progress they made this gen.