The most original and most unique exclusive franchises: Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Nintendogs, Brain Training, Mario Kart.

Commercials with Patrick Stewart.

Unique control methods that no other systems can even emulate (touchscreen, IR pointing).

ur damn wright i can't solve it

i like many thought the wii would be a fad

i think thats the best anwser i could come up with aswell i don't get the wii domination at all

There's a much better answer easily available. Care to educate yourself?

Because they are the most innovative systems.

the hardware shortages durin Christmas 06 and 07 created intense demand for the wii among many people that knew nothing about what truely makes great games. notice the best games on the wii aren't the systems bestselling titles. Japan has largely woken up from this phenomenon except for a few weeks there following the dq x announcement and the lack of knowledge that the latest monster hunter was also coming to psp. the rest of the world will eventually follow suit unless some of their hc games attract a following something that the system's prior hc titles failed to do. WSR is also a big test to see if the newbies will buy something they think they already have. at any rate, nintendo can't afford to do a dog and pony show at the game conventions in 09 as they did in 08 with one core title and one game meant to sell because it has the word wii in the title if they want to remain dominant as they were. if they try that again their sales could fall off to gcn levels until new Mario, Zelda, and DQ come out.

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Okay, so hardware shortages are what drives demand. The 360 and PS3 were initially in low supply, but by making the same number of consoles as they had been they met the demand shortly after the holidays ended. Nintendo, by contrast, increased its supply by a record (yes, record) amount, and it still took several years before you could walk into an American store and find one.

But evidently, despite record supply, demand was driven by...a lack of supply? Does that sound right to you?

Your second sentence shows your egocentrism. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean the rest of us don't.

Next, if Japan has "woken up" and realized that the Wii has no good games, what does that say about the HD consoles, which are still outsold by the Wii there (and everywhere else...)?

As to your "WSR is also a big test to see if the newbies will buy something they think they already have" comment, I thought they were already buying all those "lolminigames"? Isn't that what your second sentence is about?

I'll let someone else point out gamers seem to prefer Animal Crossing/Wii Music, as compared to, say, Ninja Gaiden/Prince of Persia/many other big-name games.

the controls is the only reason it is selling so well+the launch price of the console was by far the cheapest....
the competitors at the time was expensive and they are still expensive

but the main selling point of the system is the function of the motion-sensor controller(s)

@noname2200, yes it was shortages driving the demand for the wii. it was kind of a herd mentallity going on. why else do you think people were able to sell wii's for 800 bucks on ebay? because demand was high and people were unable to find them in stores. why were stores placing wii's in four hundred dollar bundles and selling them that way when they were only supposed to cost 250? because demand was so high since people couldn't find them in stores any other way and they didn' t want the kids to be disappointed at Christmas. hey there are still no wii's in my local walmart today. the wii's success is driven by demand for something that people hear about yet seldom see. if you look at recent sales numbers for the wii and ps3 for the past several weeks, you'll see that the numbers between wii and ps3 have been the closest of all the consoles recently even closer than ps3 and 360 or ds and psp even though the ps3 costs $150 more than the wii, and last week ps3 outsold 360 and Wii combined in Japan.