Can Nintendo hold the Wii By them selves?

[Dodece]

Marketing is what sells the console to consumers. Nintendo could quite literally sell this console with absolutely no games of quality. They could sell it with a library ten times smaller then what they currently have, and they could mandate that all games have a mandatory rating of E for everybody. While its true we see some brand loyalty in the sales most of it boils down to the image that Nintendo is conveying to consumers.

The console isn't selling on its strength of library yet. I think eventually it will assuming that advertising results in a diminishing return over time. What I mean to say that the non gamers, or the family gamers, or the returning gamers get tired of the entire concept. I think the user base really is built out of trend enthusiasts rather then console enthusiasts, and they do not seem to be all that exceptionally loyal.

I would say this Nintendo couldn't really hold up their last two consoles on their own. Without third party support gamer interest did wane in them. Nintendo isn't being judged on that at the moment. Yet eventually you are going to hear last generations comments resurface. I actually think that the library is going to get worse over time rather then better on the Wii. So yes they will need third party support, and more specifically a lot of it. Once they have to start selling to core and hardcore gamers rather then the general public.

Either way given the Nintendo if you are a hardcore or core gamer. You really should be concerned with the Wii library or more specifically the lack of enough decent and varied titles.