Umm yes the Wii is being beaten by both PS3/360 but I would hardly consider the console on life support. DreamCast in 2000-01 was on life support, the Wii is still selling over 100k a week. Thats over a million every three months. Microsoft and Sony are in the lead but they have not beaten the Wii into oblivion, they lead by less then 60,000.

With the new bundle being announced for europe probubly going to be mirrored here in North America for Black Friday and the holiday season. With DKC:R and Kirby:EY I bet the Wii could even over take PS3 this holiday season at least for a few weeks.

I find it so offensive you would consider Wii on life support. Not even the GameCube was on life support till 2005,06. The situation the Wii is in is not the best but it is way better then the same period for GameCube/PS2 or even PSOne/N64.

Always honest eh? He is right, the wii does need something. I remember he said something similar last year and then the wii exploded in christmas, could it happen again!?

considering the fact that Wii reached market saturation quite some time ago I very doubt that Nintendo is going to be in dire straits any time soon. Plus the 3DS will probably pick up the slack in a big way.

This year would have been perfect tp introduce a Platinum Series to re release hits like SMG1, Twilight Princess, Mario Party 8 etc.  I still hope they will do so anytime soon.

They won't , Nintendo is all about profitability and while the titles continue to sell like hot cakes they have no reason to release a Greatest Hits line-up. They might after N6 but for right now they are making enough profit they don't see the need to reduce the price of software.

Nintendo has little to worry about.  Even if they are at a low-point with the Wii, they are still tracking ahead of the best selling sytem in history (PS2). While Wii's competitors look good now, Nintendo isn't without tricks up its sleeves.  And for those competitiors to remotely equal the succes of the Wii they will have to literally be 10-year machines.  They'd have to be competitive in sales throughout sevel years of the Wii2 to even have a remote chance of cathing up with the Wii.  Nintendo might be forced to release new hardware sooner than they'd like, and they may not eventually reach PS2 numbers, but even over the next five years their competitors will not ever attain the financial succcess Nintendo has.  The only thing stopping them from being the out-right winners of tis gen in financial terms is a world where-in the 360 and PS3 badly out-perform a completely new NIntento system for several years in a row.  Otherwise, Nintendo kicked this gen's ass and has a strong lead into the next.  Even new systems from the oposition will have an extremely difficult (or perhaps impossible [read: improbable]) task set before them if they have to overthrw the Wii reign.

The Wii has already sold 74 million consoles. If it doesn't sell a single console from here on out, it's still a major success in my book. It outsold Nintendo's previous best selling console, the NES, and is coming off the dismal sales of 22 million for the Gamecube.

When it's all said and done, the console will sell at least 100 million, which matches the highly successful PS1, with far worse third party support than the PS1 had.

With that said, it's very dissapointing that Wii couldn't keep its momentum for longer and reach its full potential. I think the main reason, besides the lack of third party support, is that Nintendo simply didn't take advantage of its peripherals with more games that utilized them. Where are all the motion plus and balance board games? I think Wii buyers were anticipating these types of games, as well as extentions of Wii Sports/Warioware mini games that are both rich in content and really take advantage of the unique controls. Hopefully Nintendo will learn its lesson for its next console.

I just worry that Nintendo may have tarnished their image with the end of the Wii's life cycle and that it may be difficult for them to keep all of these customers with its new console who were let down by the wasted potential of the Wii. I predict the next console being the Super Nintendo equivilant of the Wii - more fleshed out core games, better graphics, more charished by the core gamers, but probably a decline in sales as Nintendo once again begins to drift away from the expanded audience and move back to the core gamer.

The red Wii and Mario All Stars release look like a late decision attempt to boost sales this Christmas, after which the only things we know of that should spike sales in Japan are the vitality sensor and Dragon Quest X.  Both might be a while off yet though, so I can see the Wii struggling against the PS3 in Japan for quite a while after Christmas (though I expect it will significantly outsell it over the Christmas period).

I think it'll be fine. I don't think the Wii successor will release any time soon, though. Reason I say this is because they have yet to release the Wii Vitality Sensor, and I think they need to support the WM more. I think Zelda could give it a good boost.

If they do end up releasing a successor, it better have backwards compatibility.

Market saturation is NOT selling a lot of systems.

That terms means something like 50% of all households or more. NO SINGLE GAME SYSTEM has done that.