| BasilZero said: So you are saying that the Wii-U will sell poorly like the PS3 did in its first years due to a lack of decent software? Oh wait...l0l Anyways Sony was persistant in selling the PS2 which is why it kept going on (just like the PSP is going), Nintendo will drop the Wii and focus mainly on the Wii-U that is unless they want the Wii to be like the NDS. Although it was obvious on why they would still continue to sell the NDS, since it is pretty much Nintendo's equivalent of a PS2 ;p. The Wii doesnt have as much good software as the NDS or the PS2 does/did. But I'm pretty sure it'll sell less than the PS2 did in its first year (maybe) against the PS3 and wont last as long (this I am sure). Edit: Also September 2013 for Wii Mini to be out in the US? If they do continue to release the Wii in that form, I'm pretty sure they'll find out whether its worth it or not after the holidays are over and if it is, release it sometime in the summer. |
I'm not saying the Wii U will sell poorly, or that the Wii will do as well as the PS2 did. My comparison was to emphasise that release of the successor doesn't mean that all sales of the older system cease. Nintendo may not be actively making games for the Wii anymore, but it's not like the Gamecube, they're not going to stop selling the system just because the Wii U has released.
And I agree that the Wii isn't going to keep selling as well as the PS2 did. But the PS2 had sold 117.89 million units by March 2007, and kept going until it managed 153.2 million, by March 2011. That's an average of about 9 million a year, with the year from April 2007 to March 2008 bringing in 13.7 million. Expecting the Wii to manage maybe around 3-5 million in 2013 after a price cut to $99 isn't too much of a stretch.
