PS3 and Wii battle for Japan 2011 edition

[Alby_da_Wolf]

XanderZane said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
Wii doesn't even try anymore...

You do realize that most of the development have now switched over to the Wii U right? This is pretty much the last hurrah for the Wii. Next year Nintendo will drop the price under $100 and call it a night. Then they will launch the Wii U which will hopefully be 100% B/C with the Wii. I think the Wii will be discontinued sometime in 2013. It still won this generation and will easily sell over 90 million units. I don't see the PS3 or XBox 360 reaching those numbers. The next XBox will be out in 2013 and I expect the PS4 will follow suit.

Wii definitely had a lot more potential than that, it started selling less when Ninty almost stopped big SW releases for it, and it plummeted when WiiU was announced in a way that made its predecessor look already obsolete. Being now low price, and going to drop further, a wider series of budget edition titles (wider than those currently available) would perfectly cater for its now even more widened potential target, but Ninty must not let HW sales drop too much before doing this, otherwise lifting them again could become almost impossible (despite budget price, $99 can still be considered an important purchase for low income families, so they won't spend even that sum if they feel the product has a too short life left).