Well, if video game message boards were an accurate representation of the gaming market, the Wii would've bombed harder than the Dreamcast, the PS3 would've been consistently on top of the charts for the last five years, Uncharted 2 and Super Mario Galaxy would be 20 million sellers, and CoD, the Wii ____ games or NSMBW wouldn't be the biggest phenomenons in the industry since fucking Tetris.

@ everything else you said: Bleh. I don't care enough to do research. (What AM I doing in a thread about hardware sales, anyway? :/)

I suppose you're right, but like I say, do we have any other way of telling us how the market will react other than past trends? No.

So we ave to go on what we know, and, sadly, that's only message boards...

This is the new Wii commerical looks like

http://www.nintendo.com/video/globalplayer/player.swf?width=700&height=394&flashvars=url=/video/wii/wii_tvcm.flv&title=Wii&omniture=live&color=red&playerLocation=pop-up&autoplay=true

too many software droughts, too much competition.

I think the price cut will help sales and theres always a chance of them revealing a new phenonenon but I think those chances are slim. There is definately no way xenoblade or last story will have any effect on hardware sales whatsoever. The wii will stay in free fall and software will continue to decline. I see maybe about a years worth of software left for the system. Nintendo needs to get cafe out with a strong first party launch line up as soon as possible. 

make games for the system, there is nothing more to do

Yup the Wii paved the way for motion controls and is far ahead of the other 2 systems. People are exaggerating when they say the wii is dead. Its not doing as well as it was 2 years ago but even PS3 and Xbox360 is not doing as well as the wii did 2 years ago.

Pretty much, but 'save' in this context means surpassing, or at least meeting, Nintendo's projections and to get the Wii back in the number one space, and this strategy could do it.

With all the doom threads, it's easy to get confused.

As a side note, it's interesting to see the poll results. So much pessimism towards Nintendo...

I don't know if it's just me, but the vid isn't working. All that happens when you roll over it is a Wii logo appears in the top-right of the screen. Am I missing something? :/

@conegamer  do you blame people?? not much has been going on in the Wii front, with 3DS just releasing and a new system about a year away most people are expecting to not see too much from Wii. 

Not really, but there's still over a year left in the console (think about all the DS games we had; Pokemon, DQ, Professor Layton, Okamiden to name a few), plenty of games which can come over to be localised, a Zelda, Pikmin and DQ game in the pipeline and a price cut for the console. It's sold nearly 90,000,000 units and is shifting MASSIVE amounts of SW, as previously discussed. Nintendo won't ignore that and stop supporting it now.