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Fusioncode on 08 November 2013
sc94597 said:
Fusioncode said:
 and (compared to other Nintendo consoles) a fairly weak 1st party lineup hold it back. 

Which other consoles? I'd say the Wii had a better first party lineup than both the Gamecube and N64 at the very least. In fact, the great first party games are probably its most redeeming quality. 

I mean we got: The Last Story, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Endless Ocean, Endless Ocean: Blue World, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Kirby's Return to Dreamland, Skyward Sword, Mario Kart Wii, Metroid: Other M (horrible story, good gameplay), Metroid Prime 3, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Pandora's Tower, Punch-Out, Sin and Punishment: Star Successor, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Wario Land: Shake It, and Xenoblade Chronicles as quality titles published by Nintendo. That is about $1100 (new) worth of games, to put things in perspective.  Say one owns and plays a Wii from late 2006 until early 2011. That is four games per year from Nintendo (evenly distributed. But, just to put things in perspective, here is the Gamecube's first party library: 

Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Super Smash Bros Melee, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Metroid Prime, Starfox Adventures, Super Mario Sunshine, F-Zero GX, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Mario Kart: Double Dash, The Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventure, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Pikmin 2, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Starfox Assault. That is seventeen games. I could do the same for the N64. 

At the very least the Wii is comparable to the N64 and Gamecube, with very similar games to boot, and I'd argue more diversity. The only problem the Wii had was the early and late droughts, while the other consoles had evenly distrubted releases or dwindled toward the end (especially N64.) 

I preferred Wind Waker to Skyward Sword, Melee to Brawl, Double Dash to MKWii. Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 were great but a lot of the other games were either forgettable or inferior to their predecessors. 



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Chiefpitchanono on 08 November 2013

Just depends on how long nintendo keeps it alive. If they keep it going here for another year or two they will make it. I think the mini will pull them across the finish line but the should drop the regular wii and stick with the mini.



Mummelmann on 09 November 2013
FarleyMcFirefly said:
weaveworld said:
Possible but doubtful.

Am i out of line saying that it doesn't deserve to outsell Ps1?


Why?
It revolutionized the gaming industry.
It "deserves" the massive sales it gets.


Revolution huh? Is that why every major game made today is geared towards motion controls? A revolution entails a tangible, actually adopted solution or lasting change with enormous impact. The Wii's impact seems to have been very small in the long run.

I'm not going to say what it deserves and not, that's hardly an argument worth having anyways, but the revolution was more a temporary hype, the industry standard was largely unaffected the same and the controller market is moving towards and has been moving towards touch controls for a long time, not motion controls. For the record, I think touch controls are shit...



nuckles87 on 09 November 2013

It's why every major game device now has motion controls. It's why we've had such a huge explosion in the casual gaming scene since 2006. It's why we have Kinect 2.0 built into the Xbox One as a major feature. It's why we have Avatars, Kinect Sports, and countless other simple "cutesy" games both on mobile and console platforms.

So yeah, Wii did have a pretty major impact on the gaming industry. It made motion control the standard.



Carl on 09 November 2013

Its gonna be close. Needs to do reaaaally well this Holiday otherwise its got no chance.



                            

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Alby_da_Wolf on 09 November 2013

@OP:

If Ninty wants it, it can do it, but the question then is: does Ninty want it?



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bubblegamer on 09 November 2013

I won't depend on it happening.



chakkra on 09 November 2013

If Nintendo keeps shipping it to emerging economies and third world countries, yes, of course it will do it. People here usually underestimate the power of price. They seem to forget that there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who just CANNOT afford to expend more than a $100 dollars on a toy, and thus they HAVE TO settle for whatever they can find on that price point.



Daisuke72 on 09 November 2013
nuckles87 said:
It's why every major game device now has motion controls. It's why we've had such a huge explosion in the casual gaming scene since 2006. It's why we have Kinect 2.0 built into the Xbox One as a major feature. It's why we have Avatars, Kinect Sports, and countless other simple "cutesy" games both on mobile and console platforms.

So yeah, Wii did have a pretty major impact on the gaming industry. It made motion control the standard.


Do you know what the word standard means?



kupomogli on 09 November 2013

Didn't Nintendo say they're going to stop producing Wiis?

Wii has been selling an average of less than 30,000 the last few months. To reach two million sales at 30,000 a month the Wii needs to be on the market another 67 months. So the Wii will sell more than the PSX guaranteed before the next two years, but it depends if Nintendo stops producing Wiis or not.

I doubt Nintendo has a surplus of two million Wiis lying around.