So, Wii 2 announced this year?

[Roma]

Pavolink said:

trestres said:

So where are the games? NSMBWii came less than a year after the slow sales started, completely negating your argument. WSR is far more important than Wii Fit plus, as the latter was just an expansion and not meant to improve sales. WSR on the other hand was, since it introduced the Motion Plus. But that was less than half a year after the slowing sales, once again contradicting your reasoning.

And now that we are 2 years exactly after slow sales commenced, where are the games? That 2 year figure is inexistant. The games should have been here and they are not. What's worse is that their current 1st party line up is extremely weak, there are no notable games.

2 years cycle for games is real. At the beggining of the E3 2009 show, Iwata was in stage, and show a picture of Mario and Link and told to the audience that they were making new Mario and Zelda titles.

At the final, press asked him about that games, and he tell them that we have to wait, because those titles need between two or three years of development.  These are some examples:

Super Mario Galaxy (2007) - Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010) >>> 2 and a half years

Wii Sports (2006) - Wii Sports Resorts (2009) >>> 2 and a half years

And from others generations, Zelda is the best example:

Ocarina of Time (1998) - Majora's Mask (2000) >>> 2 years

Majora's Mask (2000) - The Wind Waker (2002-Japan) >>> 2 years

Metroid Prime (2002) - Metroid Prime 2 (2004) >>> 2 years

 

Is not that Nintendo isn't developing other titles, but from what I understand, is possible a Wii Sports 3, Wii Fit 3, NSMBWii 2 this year.

Just because a game came out after that period does not mean they started it right away (talking about the sports games here they can make a game like that in 6 months or something) OoT took about 4 years to make or so I have read some ware I think it was on ign.

Your talking about games made after there has been one on the same console that means they have the engine already to create the next game.  

and for  Zelda SS this is the longest we’ve had to wait for a 3D console Zelda from 2006 to 2011 that is 5 years if they release it at the end of this year    

what Nintendo can do is lower the price of their games (those that have sold over 5 million or something)  and do a players choice though I think this will happen this year together with a Wii price cut. I think they will do a WiiWinter Sports game with both WMplus and WBB support and then include that with all the Wiis.