RolStoppable said:
You are just fooling around, right? But here we go.
Mario Sports Mix, Wii Play Motion, Mystery Case Files, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Skyward Sword, Fortune Street. That's six games for the entire year.
Rhythm Heaven Fever, PokePark 2, Mario Party 9, Xenoblade Chronicles, Kirby's Dream Collection. Five games, so a total of eleven for 2011 and 2012 combined. |
The Wii had hundreds of games by that point, and 1 release every 2 months (give or take) from Nintendo has pretty much par for the course for the last 20 years.
And things like Just Dance and uDraw became hits during this period. There's also Mario & Sonic Olympics 2012 in there, though technically Sega published in the West, that's basically a co-publishing deal.
I think the more plausible reason Wii sales slowed is became Kinect and Move came out and the rise of iOS/Google Play app market creating far more intense competetion for the hearts/minds of the casual player. In that tug of war, Nintendo ultimately lost. Also the when every system basically could play Wii Sports (well Kinect Sports, Sport Champions ... same sh*t, stand in front of your TV and pretend to play tennis/golf/etc. by waving your arms around), it nullified the Wii's uniqueness.
To be honest I'm not sure why MS/Sony even waited so long to copy it, they probably could've slowed Wii sales down much earlier.
The Wii only outsold the XBox 360 once in NPD after Nov. 2010's release of Kinect.
