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TheSource said:

Using Nintendo's site and Wikipedia, excluding downloadable games, and including bundled retail games, I've come up with the following for game releases by Nintendo console per year in the USA.

Year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Wii 0 23 153 264 282 250            
GC 0 20 146 135 98 92 46 5 0 0 0 0
N64 0 8 33 71 89 68 7 1 0 0 0 0
SNES 0 36 117 189 240 133 51 12 2 0 0 0
NES 0 18 17 56 66 94 171 124 109 48 15 0

I'm using 1985 as Year 1 for NES, 1991 as year 1 for SNES, 1996 as year 1 for N64, 2001 as year 1 for GC, and 2006 as year 1 for Wii. For NES, the formal USA-wide release wasn't until 1986, and so arguably year six is really year five. But NES launched in NYC in 1985, and in Los Angeles in Feb 1986.

Over under for year six on Wii (2011) has to be at least 150 games I'd reckon. There are about 15 games for Q1 2011 already announced and I don't think we have all late Feb / March dates just yet.

So it looks like at least 150 games for 2011 indeed, and based on the support the DS is still seeing, I'd imagine we'd still see around 20-30 games released for the Wii during the successors first year ie 2013. Which would put 2012 somewhere in the middle... lets say 80-90 games for a total of 250 more games minimum. I hope no less than 10% of those are must-have titles.



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