Yes /sarcasm

Well, if Nintendo decides to...

...not drop it in price in anyway,

...not create different color schemes/hardware adjustments,

...stop creating new and exciting games for both core and casual gamers,

...stop 3rd parties from creating new and exciting games for both core and casual gamers,

...supply markets with the exact same stock of Wii's as this year minus one console,

Then yes, the Wii has peaked.

Yep Wii will have far bigger sales 2009 - they only just increased production 6 months ago to help with higher demand - so 2009 will have higher production all year than 2008 - they may need to ramp production even more it appears that demand is still on the increase this xmas they sold around 6 million units in a month that is 2.5* higher than monthly production !.
It's a young console and now sw 3rd parties are comming back to nintendo it's sw will boost alot next year and pull even more people.
A price cut - it did wonders for the X360 MS had to undercutt the Wii to try to get increase in sales ( and make a loss on each sale)- yes it helped X360 outsell the PS3, but nintendo beat the X360+PS3 combined without having to do a price cut -Wii is a truly remarkable.

No doubt a price cut will not only take many of the sales budget sales from the 360 arcade it woould and increase across the board - nintendo could easily sell more if they could only make them fast enough.

The console race is over, lets face it. There's no hope for the other consoles anymore. With the casuals in Nintendo's pockets alreadya nd assured for the rest of the gen, and with 3rd party devs starting to release quality games for the Wii the Wii already wins.

3rd party devs will be very reluctant now when thinking about developing a multimillion huge budget game for the HD's seeing that a bomb could mean bankruptcy in this times of crisis and when banks are refusing to give out loans. At least if the game is badly acclaimed by the critics, the game could potentially sell on the Wii because of the casual audience. If a game gets bad reviews it bombs badly on the HD cnsoles, there's no intermediate point here. What's more likely, a dev to risk itself on the Wii or on the HD consoles now?

one problem with that... The DS had a slow start. The DS Lite is what caused it to go all crazy. The Wii was a beast from the get go. I think year 3 is the peak WW. Japan may have some good years once the devs consolidate on the Wii..

a second point. When they get the Wii to 149.99 it will become a mega monster even the more. Casuals are VERY price consience and many core gamers do not see enough on the Wii to warrant its current price to them. The PS2's best year were under 200 dollars.

a second point. When they get the Wii to 149.99 it will become a mega monster even the more. Casuals are VERY price consience and many core gamers do not see enough on the Wii to warrant its current price to them. The PS2's best year were under 200 dollars.

Haha, game set and match, the winner - Rol

Anyway, Wii will be shipping at 2.4k k / month in January 09, whereas it was at 1.8 k k in Jan 08, demand generaly rises in the third year and the Wii has many big games in 09. It will sell more in 09 than 08. As to whether it will sell more in '10 than 09, who knows. The DS did

I don't know if ninty will be able to match there sales from the first half of 2008, I don't think they have huge enough software. Sure wii sports resort, punch out, and the conduit will help move units, but not like smash, kart, and wii fit.

But like people are saying in here already, nintendo still hasn't cut the price on wii, and hasn't unleashed any new colours/bundles. I'm sure they would make a huge deal out of a big price cut, and maybe a bundle with new zelda/mario/punch out. So I guess my answer is no the wii hasn't peaked.