Wii is in decline, but don't pretend interest in the other platforms is accelerating either. PS3 purchasing rates per user are barely set to be above Wii purchasing rates this year, its just that PS3 is at record hw levels while Wii is in its second decline year.

You have to remember, there are virtually no consoles in the history of gaming that have averaged more than five game purchases per year. So the fact that Wii is on pace for a 165m sw year (including bundles) means that it has anywhere from 70 million active users purchasing slightly more than two games per year, to as few as, if people really don't use their Wiis, something like 30 million active users purchasing five games a year on average.

My impression on the Wii arc is people buy 3-5 games year one for Wii, 2-4 games year two, 1-3 games year three, 0-2 games year four, 0-1 games year five on average. After five years most people end up with 6 to 15 games - with far more on the low side, which is why the attach rate overall is consistently around 8 games / user lifetime.

When I hear stories like this....all I can do is shake my head. RAD has made 4 games in the past 4 years - 3 of which were PSP titles, the most recent being God of War...releasing next week.

They don't sound like people ecstatic about Nintendo...especially when they are working with licensed 1st party Sony IPs :P They did not even wanna make Okami. They just wanted to help the Wii's port cause....wasn't like the console didn't have enough of those.

I'm really starting to think......that these devs made "certain" types of Wii games on purpose.

But the bright side of thing is that while PS3 and Xbox 360`s HW sales have been high for a long time, suffered redesigns and have better third party support with a constant release of good/great games - not to mention a better online service - they aren`t that far ahead of Wii as they wish and could be. Which means that Wii still has it in it.

I believe that if price decreases and - somehow - goes through a redesign of some sort, it will lift sales enough to keep momentum for Wii 2, if done right of course.

That's exactly why I'm not putting a whole lot of weight to their words. They're practically eating out of the palm of Sony's hands, of course they're gonna say stuff that benefits that company.

By the time their next game will be ready (18-24 months) the PS3 and 360 will be "wearing off" too. They should focus on the 3DS (with litle higher capabilities than a PSP) or the PSP2, whatever they can develop for.

I agree. There are some great games out there, but I can't finish most of them and after a while (even when I'm playing one  of the best games of this generation like SMG2), I just want go back to my PS3.

So yes, it collects dust most of the time and for most of the people I know it's exactly the same.

I will buy Donkey Kong Country: Returns and Kirby Epic Yarn whenever it releases here, and will probably finish them but I decided a couple of monts ago that i'm going to skip the mid-tier title's.

I'd go a step further and say the Wii novelty factor has worn off. This is a four year console we're talking about here, Wii Fit was released over two years ago and motion controls are no longer anything magical or exclusive to the Wii.

One thing has not changed though; the best games from both a commercial and critical standpoint on the Wii remain Nintendo developed titles.

"So does the industry really feel that the Wii is no longer a viable platform?"

When did they ever start thinking it was viable? They always wanted it to not be viable.

Let's be honest here. The Wii is slowing down due to low third party support. As a generation's console leader it would certainly be selling more if a steady stream of good games came out for it. Nintendo software alone, its quality notwithstanding, can't carry it all the way to supremacy.

How dare somebody have a negative opinion of the Wii!

Those bastards!