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Declan on 22 January 2011
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Joelcool7 said:
TheBardsSong said:
RolStoppable said:
SmokedHostage said:

I read the opening post and I still don't think the Wii need saving.

The Wii desperately needs saving, but it won't receive it. The sales of the system are in free fall, we are going to see sub 100k weeks in a few months.


Which will all be made up for again after it sells an insane amount during the holidays again.


I have to disagree. Nintendo Wii will see a boost holiday 2011, but not enough to really save it. Sales are dropping far to fast even LOZ won't be enough to hold off the inevitable. Though Wii is still selling better then PS2 was at this point it is in no doubt in need of saving.

What's left that Nintendo can release on Wii to save it? All the big franchises are present (Except F-Zero, StarFox). Their is nothing left. Nintendo could release Vitality Sensor and I don't think even that could turn Wii's sales around. 2012 will be the year Nintendo releases its next system and to be honest Nintendo needs it.

Now I was saying that if third parties begin porting 3DS games to Wii they could prolong Wii's life by a few more years. If sufficient software kept coming out for the Wii it could live another 2-3 years maybe longer. Look at the PS2 still getting games thanks to the PSP.

But as Rol said the Wii is in need of saving, as others said titles from developers who don't usually port won't be. The examples Resident Evil, MGS, Dead Or Alive, the PS2 never got ports. But for titles from Activision and other publishers which routinely port titles to handhelds or vice versa to consoles this could help prolong Wii's life!

Some of Wii's biggest games have been ones that nobody had any idea about as little as six months before release (e.g. NSMBWii) and/or which haven't come from a previously established series (e.g. Wii Fit).  As such, there's plenty that Nintendo can release - it just might be futile to try to guess what such games are.

(Also disagree that the Wii needs saving - sales fell last year to a point where the Wii still outsold the next best-selling home console by a few million and, in terms of annual sales, ranked very highly in the all-time best for any home console ever.  2011 should see the Wii's price drop to the point at which I believe the PS2 enjoyed its best sales [~£129 / $150], and software will continue to arrive.  I' don't expect the Wii's successor to arrive until 2013 in the west - possibly late 2012 for Japan [depending on when DQX gets released].)