curl-6 on 03 August 2020
| Mummelmann said: Contrary to popular belief; the audience did not drop the platform due to a lack of software and support, it was rather Nintendo who choked support once the sales started plummeting. The Wii had an unusually steep decline, especially for a market leader, ending it when they did was not a mistake, in my opinion. |
It takes years to develop games, if they'd stopped making Wii games only once sales started to dive, then support would've continued through 2011 and 2012 as those games would've been far along already.
The fact they only had a single major global release for 2011 was because they only ever planned four years of full support. Sales naturally declined once the flow of games slowed to a trickle.
