Do you think Nintendo killed off the Wii too early

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Jumpin said:

curl-6 said:

Stuff like PS Move Sports did not significantly hurt Wii sales. It was a matter of software; 2006-2010 had strong software, 2011-2012 didn't.

Nintendo of America is definitely to blame for how horrendously they handled those last two years in the system's biggest market, yes. But even in PAL, while there were some choice picks for a gamer like myself, there still wasn't the kind of software strong enough to drive hardware momentum.

To support Curl's point: https://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40909/Global/ - this is for the week ending December 31st, 2011

Pos	Game	Weekly	Total	Week #
1	Just Dance 3 (Wii) Ubisoft, Misc	562,447	7,164,411	13

24

Just Dance 3 (X360) Ubisoft, Misc

121,888

1,344,384

13

While conceivably it did have some impact, the Wii version of Just Dance 3 had very strong sales that year, selling around 150% better than the sales of Just Dance 2 in 2010, which released 12 weeks before the end of the year. Just Dance 3 on Wii would go on to become the highest selling release in franchise history at over 10 million units on Wii alone; it sold 2 million on Xbox 360 and 630K on PS3, which, while decent, don't seem to be impacting the Wii even though 2011 marked a massive decline over 2010. As a note, Just Dance 4 also did really well on the Wii, selling close to 7 million units - this also indicates that Nintendo, had they kept supporting the console, could have seen more games sell in the tens of millions because if Ubisoft can get up there, surely Nintendo could do better.

Thank you.

The idea that the Wii userbase had moved on from the system simply isn't true, JD3 in 2011 was in fact not only the highest selling in the series but the highest selling third party game on any Nintendo system, ever. Nintendo abandoned the audience, not vice versa. They pulled the plug too early.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 09 August 2020