Wii production to end in Japan

[sethnintendo]

Seece said:

leedlelee said:
Seems pretty early...
Especially when you consider they didn't discontinue the Famicom and the Super Famicom until 2003...

But Wii isn't selling, this year they won't even reach 2m for FY which ends in march, if they kept it going it wouldn't sell more than a million.

No point keeping the production lines open for such small numbers.

Then why did they keep the NES going for so long?

"The NES/Famicom's production run is the longest lasting of any video game console, spanning 20 years from July 1983 to September 2003, before being discontinued in Japan."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System