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The Wii is still in the lead overall so how has it fallen from grace?  Is it because it was in 5th place last week in sales?



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The Wii's fall from grace is to be expected. It's patter is not too different from the PS2 before it. The real oddity is the HD systems. Their life cycles appear to simply be longer than the Wii's, and in fact, longer than any console I've ever seen. Remember when Sony talked about their 10 year plan? The HD systems are actually like that. The Wii is a traditional 5 or 6 year platform.



psrock said:

The Wii has tons of System sellers, games arent the issue. The Wii itself is the problem. The Wii  needs to be refreshed, it feels old and behind. When you have as strong as competitors as the Wii has whom have both had new slim versions, new hadware and such, Nintendo needs to to something about it. Even the PS2 got a refresh. 


For definition a system seller is something that sells system, which game do you think the Wii has left to sell systems? Of course I'm not counting Wii Fit, WSR and NSMBW, they are the main reason why people actually buys a Wii, not system sellers.



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Buzzi said:
psrock said:

The Wii has tons of System sellers, games arent the issue. The Wii itself is the problem. The Wii  needs to be refreshed, it feels old and behind. When you have as strong as competitors as the Wii has whom have both had new slim versions, new hadware and such, Nintendo needs to to something about it. Even the PS2 got a refresh. 


For definition a system seller is something that sells system, which game do you think the Wii has left to sell systems? Of course I'm not counting Wii Fit, WSR and NSMBW, they are the main reason why people actually buys a Wii, not system sellers.

Now try to define system seller.



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11/20/09 04:25 makingmusic476 Warning Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.)

The problem was that Nintendo didn't release the yearly add-on during 2010, we were all waiting for that vitality sensor to come up. But it seems like that has been bumped to this year or even scratched out.

PS: The only thing it needs is desirable software!



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psrock said:
Buzzi said:
psrock said:

The Wii has tons of System sellers, games arent the issue. The Wii itself is the problem. The Wii  needs to be refreshed, it feels old and behind. When you have as strong as competitors as the Wii has whom have both had new slim versions, new hadware and such, Nintendo needs to to something about it. Even the PS2 got a refresh. 


For definition a system seller is something that sells system, which game do you think the Wii has left to sell systems? Of course I'm not counting Wii Fit, WSR and NSMBW, they are the main reason why people actually buys a Wii, not system sellers.

Now try to define system seller.

Ok I see what you did, they're letting him survive so they're system sellers. Ok, you're not totally wrong, but I just can't see how you consider 4 games which are letting the console die system sellers. System sellers should improve the sales of a console, not just let him survive.



CURRENTLY PLAYING: Xenoblade (Wii), Super mario 3D land (3DS), Guild Wars (PC)

 

Buzzi said:
psrock said:
Buzzi said:
psrock said:

The Wii has tons of System sellers, games arent the issue. The Wii itself is the problem. The Wii  needs to be refreshed, it feels old and behind. When you have as strong as competitors as the Wii has whom have both had new slim versions, new hadware and such, Nintendo needs to to something about it. Even the PS2 got a refresh. 


For definition a system seller is something that sells system, which game do you think the Wii has left to sell systems? Of course I'm not counting Wii Fit, WSR and NSMBW, they are the main reason why people actually buys a Wii, not system sellers.

Now try to define system seller.

Ok I see what you did, they're letting him survive so they're system sellers. Ok, you're not totally wrong, but I just can't see how you consider 4 games which are letting the console die system sellers. System sellers should improve the sales of a console, not just let him survive.

The Wii is a family console which sells most of its hardware in November and DEC by an amazin amount.  There was tons of games release on Nintendo a couple months ago. Nintendo strategy has always been to survive on a couple games for months and months. It just doenst work as much unless the game has Mario or Wii in its title. 

 Nintendo don't do much sequels, but it sure needs some right now.



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11/20/09 04:25 makingmusic476 Warning Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.)

cant we at least wait till next week and see how the Wii does, before we start saying doom??? Wii's not my favorite console but Jeez!!!



psrock said:
Buzzi said:
psrock said:
Buzzi said:
psrock said:

The Wii has tons of System sellers, games arent the issue. The Wii itself is the problem. The Wii  needs to be refreshed, it feels old and behind. When you have as strong as competitors as the Wii has whom have both had new slim versions, new hadware and such, Nintendo needs to to something about it. Even the PS2 got a refresh. 


For definition a system seller is something that sells system, which game do you think the Wii has left to sell systems? Of course I'm not counting Wii Fit, WSR and NSMBW, they are the main reason why people actually buys a Wii, not system sellers.

Now try to define system seller.

Ok I see what you did, they're letting him survive so they're system sellers. Ok, you're not totally wrong, but I just can't see how you consider 4 games which are letting the console die system sellers. System sellers should improve the sales of a console, not just let him survive.

The Wii is a family console which sells most of its hardware in November and DEC by an amazin amount.  There was tons of games release on Nintendo a couple months ago. Nintendo strategy has always been to survive on a couple games for months and months. It just doenst work as much unless the game has Mario or Wii in its title. 

 Nintendo don't do much sequels, but it sure needs some right now.


Meh, I don't think anything except for NSMBW2 could sell systems. Look at Galaxy 2, even selling 5m it din't move hardware.

Nintendo needs games which could attract new customers, to the Wii Fit ones, which already buy the system...I agree with you about a restyle, but this should also be a way to change Wii's image, like Microsoft did with 360. Releasing just a redesign could help sales but in the long term won't help too much IMHO.



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I dont think the tech has much to do with its sales as the ds has already proven that. I agree that from jan to june the wii has only 2 games comming for it(good games) which shows how low is the third party support on the system but I am quite confident that from june to dec the wii will have plenty of games and some system sellers like zelda or heck maybe we will see a dragon quest X but in the end only time will tell.