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Nintendo had supported it with regular releases up until 2013 (when they should have released Wii U)?

Could it have gotten to 110 million? Was the fad over already and Nintendo's support wouldn't have done anything?

Discuss. :P



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If anything Nintendo should have cut the Wii off in 2011, rather than 2012 (and they should have made sure Skyward Sword came out in 2010 but you know Nintendo).

But then again who knows. One of the reasons the Wii brand died is because Nintendo started to ignore it around 2011. No Wii Sports 3, Wii Fit 2, etc. etc. So perhaps if they supported it just a bit longer it could have reached 110-120 million sales.



Sigh one dev cant do it all. It failed cause it had no great 3rd party support other than shovelware.



 

 

I think the fad was declining by then. Smartphone apps were starting to take off by about 2010 in a huge way (Angry Birds released in Dec. 2009 would be the first bonafied smartphone gaming phenomenon). Kinect and Move were released meaning motion gaming and waggling in front of your TV to sports, dance, fitness games was now available on every console, you didn't need to buy only a Wii to get basically the same experience.

The Wii didn't really have a dearth of releases anyway, there were hundreds of Wii games released in 2011 and 2012, they just weren't as many of the standard big Nintendo IP or what us enthuiast gamers would like ... but most of those IP never really sold the Wii in the first place. Wii Sports and Wii Fit sold the Wii, not Metroid or Punch-Out or even 3D Mario really. Those just tagged along but they weren't the reason the Wii was sold out for months at a time, if they were the GameCube should've been a big hit too.

Just Dance was far more successful than most Nintendo's core IP, and that released only in 2010 and that was a big evergreen seller (hell Just Dance on the Wii still charts in some countries). Zumba Fitness was also a big hit for the Wii in its later years. 

To us, a new Metroid + Star Fox + DKC game would've showed the Wii was "well supported", but really honestly things like Zumba Fitness (6.67 million copies) and Just Dance 3 released in 2011 sold 10 million (!) copies would crush sales of any core Nintendo IP not starring Mario, and Wii had Mario out the wazoo already by 2011. 

It had Just Dance, Zumba Fitness, and Zelda: Skyward Sword in its late life cycle, is that really hugely different from Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Zelda: TP and a bunch of sh*tty third party support early in its life cycle? Obviously the fad wore off between 2006 and 2011. It wasn't a unique or new experience anymore. Times changed, competetion caught up, and the casual market was about to be rocked by the app phenomenon (which would far eclipse the Wii's success).  



....if an HD reboot it would ahve sold an extar 10 millions.... oops sorry that's Wii U!



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115,000,000 imo.