Funny thing is that at least one prominent Japanese analyst has said good things are ahead for Nintendo and said it is underestimating its total future sales.

Also, it should be noted that Nintendo will be increasing the value of its SKU rather than decreasing the price of that SKU when it starts including WSR (with WM+) with the unit -- heretofore a $50 separate purchase.

Mike from Morgantown

I think it was $2.95B

He's really funny, he should have his own TV show.
Oh I forgot the name is already taken.


It was called Jackass.

Boy, I'm glad this "customers serve me!" mentality that developers have hasn't come back to bite them!

While I disagree with launching a new console before 2012 (which is when they all will), I do agree with this quote.

“We can blame the third party publishers for making shovelware, or for misjudging the Wii market, but the simple fact is that the publishers have to develop completely separate games for the Wii because its CPU is not powerful.”

I always maintained that Wii would get the top IPs by 2009, let alone 2010 and beyond. I figured that they would create the game around the Wii and then port to PS360. Problem is that not only did they not make the top IPs on Wii, they don't even give Wii scaled down ports. Absolutely a full 180 from all previous generational leaders.

However, their argument isn't all that bad. While Wii as a standalone console is the highest marketshare, it is VERY different from the other consoles. Given that fact and that combined the PS360 marketshare is slightly bigger than Wii's, it does make financial sense to focus on those two alone (plus PC) and ignore the odd man out, the Wii.

However, with the high number of consoles and software being sold, software that costs less to produce; Nintendo and the 3rd parties who do put games on Wii are still very profitable and will continue to lead the market through 2012. Therefore there still is not reason to push out a new console early and the Wii will continue to be on shelves for years after PS360 have been shut down as its library is/will be huge and very cost effective for everyone.

Actually, it's called "Pach-Attack!"

If Patcher sees the release of Wii HD before his death, he will die as a fullfilled happy man.

 Wii is dooomed!

That's an Internet show. I'm talking silver screen

Patcher's just angry that Nintendo might actually know better than him and didn't listen to his asinine advice to release a Wii HD.

Btw, that's complete bullshit that Nintendo's 3rd party support would magically improve drastically after the release of a Wii HD. Remember the Gamecube had comparable power to its competitors yet still received little 3rd party support, probably even worse than Wii currently has! Most 3rd parties don't like puting their games on Nintendo platform simply because they don't have what it takes to compete with Nintendo. The power of the hardware means very little in this case.