How does Nintendo manage to do it so often

[tjallern]

Why do people count Wii Sports? Seriously... It is bundled with every Wii, besides the ones sold in Japan and only 14m people decided to buy Wii Sports Resort. Doesn't that really show that 1 out of 5 gives a rats ass about that crappy game they got when they bought the Wii? I think it is an insult to other games to try to live up to a game where close to all of the copies were bundled. It really isn't the game that sells, and Wii Sports Resort numbers backs this up. I mean, if people loved Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort numbers would be a lot higher.

And to answer the question asked, or at least one part of it. Competition. The games from Nintendo on the Wii has almost NO competition. I mean, the last big game to release was in November, it's called NSMB Wii and while it is a decent game, I believe that one of the biggest reasons it continues to sell so well is that there are basically "no new games" for Wii owners to buy. I mean, Nintendo releases what, 4 Wii titles a year? Would NSMB Wii still sell this much today if there had been released any big name games for the Wii since that time (same timeframe for PS360 you got: Bayonetta, Bioshock 2, MAG, Heavy Rain, GOW, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield, Darksiders, Final Fantasy XIII, Star Ocean PS3, Yakuza 3 & 4, Splinter Cell, Resonance of Fate, and the list goes on and on). No wonder they all sell when they really have close to NO competition. If Sony and MS only ran 4 - 6 franchises on their console of course they would also sell a lot better than they do today, because it would be the consumers only option. However, this strategy gives Nintendo's new franchises better chance to grow and be huge. Sony might be developing too many new/different IPs to get one of them up to any of the Wii games' level. And MS, well, they got Halo at 10m+ with almost half the user base of the Wii and also some other heavy hitters. Both the PS3 and 360 has an ocean of quality, big name games with hype, struggling to get noticed in the flock, the Wii don't have anything close to this. The Wii has niche games, party games and the big boss itself- Nintendo games.

I'm not trying to discredit the Wii or any of the Wii games here, but I believe that the high sales on these Nintendo titles are hugely influenced by the lack of competing games on the Wii. I mean, for the majority of the people (people who clearly don't give a shit about games like Little King's Story, Muramasa, No More Heroes, MadWorld, A Boy and His Blob, etc, etc, etc) there aren't really too many known or hyped quality games to buy. So when Super Mario Galaxy 2 releases, it will sell well. Really well, because of 3 things:

1. Being a brilliant game
2. Amazing reviews
3. More than 6 months since a high profile game has been released on the Wii