Could the Wii remain dominant another five years?

ryuzaki57 said:

MrT-Tar said:

Xenoblade and The Last Story have a far far better chance to be localised for the West than Tales of Graces due to the fact they are being published by Nintendo. This gen, Nintendo has published loads of games I expected never to be released outside of Japan, examples being Disaster Day of Crisis, Jam with the Band, Brain Training. I am 99% sure that TLS will be released here in Europe and about 75% for Xenoblade.

And don't forget the Wii is getting an IE game, which I expect to be massive in the West (Level-5 have announced their intention to release the DS games in the West) and considering how popular both Level-5 and football are here in the U.K it will surely do well.

Yes, save that Nintendo can also edit third party games under their brand in the west (the best example being the game you're currently enjoying : DQIX). So if Nintendo didn't decide to support ToG as they did with Monster Hunter Tri for example, that would mean they don't have good expectations for this game in the West (and there're right seeing how Tales of Symphonia 2 and Crystal Bearers have flopped), and they surely will have the same reasoning for Xenoblade/The Last Story. Xenoblade has no chance to sell in the west (it didn't sell that much in Japan for starters) but The Last Story might if it's well advertised.

What do you mean by "IE game"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inazuma_Eleven

Yeah, I should have made that clearer, Inazuma eleven is a sort of sports/RPG hybrid that has sold really well in Japan and will certainly in the West due to the popularity of football and Level-5 at least here in Europe (I personally think a lot of DQIX's sales come from it being advertised 'from the makers of Prof Layton'). There has been 3 DS games, with the lastest one released about 6 or 7 weeks ago in Japan and still high in the charts. A Wii version has been announced, but not footage has been shown (but it most likely will be at TGS)

here are the sales for the series so far (keep in mind the 3rd hasn't been on the market for long)