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dib8rman on 07 February 2009

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Did I miss something? The OP is really asking a question; it's asking if 2009 will be the year of the Wii, then loads the question with knowledge it asssumes we know. No one was saying 2009 would be the year of the Wii, at least I didn't see anyone saying so.

Personally this goal post moving is funny though.



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JTurner82 on 07 February 2009

I am certainly hopeful that this year will be a turning point for Wii in terms of luring 3rd party publishers (even in the now struggling Japanese market), but it will take more than Dragon Quest X and Monster Hunter 3 as well as Samurai Warriors to tell if the system really can be a system of "core gamers"'s choices in the Land of the Rising Sun. So far, the first couple of third party games, Fragile and Echoes of Time (sorry if I'm missing a few) both proved too niche to boost the system's sales, and third parties need to have huge successes in order to justify being on the Wii.

That Satoru Iwata is aware of the situation in the Japanese market gives me hope that the man will help pull through, but I am beginning to feel weary by all the people predicting that this year the Wii will lose its momentum in Japan. I pray that it won't be true, but Wii will need more than just monsters and dragons to keep it afloat.

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YesWiiCan on 07 February 2009

If high quality third party games then the Wii is going to have a lot of support in 2010 even more than the Ps2.



Lurker on 07 February 2009

This year is probably the last chance it has to lure in any HD console players. I'm using a wait and see approach myself.



atma998 on 07 February 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
Soriku said:

But it doesn't have just JRPGs :P There's some good Western games coming (Conduit, Overlord, Deadly Creatures) and some other non-JRPG games like Mad World, HotD: Overkill, Sin and Punishment 2, etc.

And we still don't know Nintendo's lineup besides Wii Sports Resort.

Well we still don't know the full lineups of the PS3 and 360 either, but they're already looking fairly impressive as well.

Valkyria: It takes a lot of effort to explain a point and then miss it. Of course I was mocking PS3 owners, and using that cliche to mock Wii owners.

Look guys, the Wii is doing fine. It's the most successful platform for third parties from Nintendo by far. There have already been some amazing games both from first and third party developers. The Wii will never be the third party beasts that the PS1 and PS2 were, but it will still have amazing offerings. I still haven't seen any third party games for the Wii this year that make me think it will be that much more amazing than last year. Remember the hype for 2008? Mario Kart, Wii Fit's worldwide release, Boom Blox, De Blob, not to mention all the opportunities with the balance board. I'm not saying that 2009 won't be a great year for the Wii, but it won't be some incredible, ground breaking "year of the Wii" and I just see people saying this again for 2010. Don't sit around making the same mistake.

Hmmm I think you forget about the NES/SNES era and what about the DS?