Wii is going through the usual ups and downs of different times of the year like every other consoles now... outside of Japan of course. Remember throughout 2007 and 2008, Wii was sold out. Sales on a weekly basis were determined more so by weekly shipments rather than if it was a slow month in the summer. So like other consoles right now, they are not doing as hot as they were doing in January and subsequently in October onwards. Or at the end of fiscal quarters such as March, June, and September.

However, Wii is down a little more than usual from the possibility of no dominant software especially from that of Nintendo in the early parts of the year. Last year, it had Super Smash Bros Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Fit all release before the end of the first semester. This gave Wii an extraordinaryly unnatural amount of sales in the first half which is unusual for any console. However, in the first half of 2009, the dominant software has been niche exclusives from 3rd parties such as MadWorld and SimAnimals with Nintendo's main showing being remakes of old Gamecube games.

This lull in big properties in the beginning of the year also contribute to Wii's apparent lull in sales compared to 2008. However with Excitebots just releasing and Punch Out on the way we can assume that Wii will start to do a little better as it gets dominant software. Even more so when Wii Sports Resort comes out. Then of course with better 3rd party outings such as Little King's Story, Boom Blox Party Bash, Grand Slam Tennis, Tiger Woods 10, Virtua Tennis 09, etc start to come out as well you'll see sales continue to stay on the normal trail of things for a dominant brand console.

Japan, on the other hand, has no sign of a desirable future but it could possibly be going through something similar tied in with a much more apparent economic constraint on the video game market. But titles such as Monster Hunter 3, Wii Sports Resort, Punch Out, etc should all help to alleviate the problem in the future.

So most of it is Wii no longer being sold out so we have to adjust to different sales trends but some is due to no dominant software in the first few months of 2009 compared to the first few months in 2008.

When is the last time Nintendo released a big title for the Wii? Feels like half a year now.

nah its temporoy. it be back on its in no time

Others Top 5, 18th Apr 2009
1 Wii Sports 111,453
2 Wii Fit 88,318
3 Mario Kart Wii 58,956
4 Wii Play 41,526
5 Professor Layton and the Curious Village 40,425

It's not looking good for the Wii!

Lack of top software.

Wii waggle running out of steam, needs something new.

Competition price is now a better option then before.

Did Super Smash Bros 4 come out with MKWii2 recently? Look at the first party software lineup from this time last year.

Nintendo always hinted at taking a year out for third party developers and that ends at this years E3. We seen a new Zelda DS game (sprit tracks) announced at the big DS conference and E3 will be the Wii's time.

I seriouls think their gonna hit the second half of the year running and the gloves will be off as they know he third parties have had a year and still not fully pushed their main developers onto the wii so the gloves will be off.

I reckon we'll get a Wii zelda and SMG2 announced, along with a demo channel and a double in Wii Ware file sizes now SD support is up and running.

Sales will then pick up

i dk, globally sales are down by the same % for the last few weeks on all console brands.

I hope I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure we're now seeing the beginning of a downward trend for the Wii.

I believe 2008 was the peak year for the Wii. It will stell sell more than 20 million this year, but not 25 mill (it sold 24.4 mill in 2008). And it will beat the PS2 eventually, becoming the greatest selling console in history.

What's happening is that it still sells a little more than the other two combined.

That is my serious answer.