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Metallicube said:

heruamon said:

Jay520 said:

heruamon said:

Halo_Reach said:

heruamon said:

This news of the successful launch of the 360s is making many people sad on this site...lol.

there sadness makes me happy, there tears falling = me ultra hapiness, more tears please 360 haters

LOL...while I'm pretty exclusive to my play on the 360 (Wii in the house for my kids), I was glad to see the PS3 Slim launched, since that seriously increased the pressure on M$ and Nintendo to re-think plans...maybe Sony and Nintendo will do so after this holiday season.

do what?

Move up roll out plans...I don't think many will debate that Sony launched the PS3 slim earlier than expeected...so maybe Nintendo will drop some Wii HD news on us...lol.

Nintendo does not need a new console, and certainly not a "Wii HD." Wii momentum thus far has been driven by the strength of its game library, and that alone should be enough to keep momentum going in the future. DKC and Wii Relax could be huge revitalizers that bring the Wii back to its usual high sales.

I think Nintendo will be fine this Q4 in America and the major PAL markets (UK, Germany, France, Australia, Spain, etc), but Japan really has bottomed out, and I don't see much hope for recovery.  In Japan at least, I really do think we'll see the Wii successor in time for the 2011 holidays, probably with DQX alongside it (yes, still for Wii 1, not Wii 2 or 3DS). 

DKC and Wii Party should be pretty big this year, but even they're a clear step down from last year's 10-million-or-more-each Wii Sports Resort/Wii Fit Plus/NSMB Wii trifecta.  On the plus side, this year's "secondary" sellers (Galaxy 2, Metroid 5, Kirby's Epic Win, etc) blow last year (Punch Out, NPC series... uh, Excitebots?) out of the water.