Dammit I hate to meet these threads so crowded. Now everything has been said before me.

thats Iwata , hes an awesome guy and speaks his mind. unlike reggie and Cammie

Nintendo doesn't need to release better hardware or Star Fox or Pikmin or Wave Race or F-Zero or Pilotwings or any other core titles. It would be nice if they did but releasing GC and N64 IPs wouldn't have stopped the loss of momentum.

They need to have a 10M+ software idea every six months. I can see why they chose Animal Crossing (10M+ on DS). Wii Music was a risk but so was Wii Sports and Wii Fit. Wii Music has nothing to be ashamed of as a new IP. Some have called Nintendo foolish for relying on Wii Music but the same could have been said about Sports and Fit.

Third parties have been pathetic. I've come to think that they just have no idea what to do without processing power. The lack of M+ announcements is baffling.

Its basically the competition. The Wii price was always unsustainable IMO - and the competition has closed in price-wise, and their hand was forced.

But they shouldn't feel bad - how many times did the PS2 drop its price in the first 3...4 years? Heaps.

I think its completely amazing, that heading into the 4th Xmas for the Wii they finally dropped the price (and not a big drop either).

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Once the PS3 slim sales launch sales dry up (and its happening now, may be under 200k globally next year), the Wii will be back to a pretty dominant position - and both Sony/MS have just about done all the price cutting they can.

The other issue is simply the lag from last Xmas... both Animal Crossing & WiiMusic *failed*. WiiMusic was always a risk - but AC was a failure IMO. Either a dev failure, marketing failure - or both. They really needed to do more on it.

@Pyro

Yes, they do need to release a new Star Fox and F-Zero for the Wii...c´mon, you know you want it >_>

Damn right I want 'em, Pilotwings too but Nintendo don't NEED to release them.

I hope Nintendo uses Pilotwings as an M+ Mario Kart Wii.

I wonder what company that could be... Oo

This is why I'm excited for Nintendo's lineup next year. They know that they need to continue with software that pushes boundaries, and I really think they're gonna do it.

Actually, I was just going back and reading the issues of Nintendo Power during the Wii launch. The magic of motion control was in full force, with Wii Sports and Twilight Princess being the big two games pushing this idea. "Man! I can't wait to actually shoot Link's bow!" "It's like I'm actually playing tennis!"... it was exciting because this motion control lessened the barrier between you and the video game. It was exciting because it was one step closer for me to be Link, or a tennis player, or an extreme truck driver. You were the character instead of someone sitting on the couch, and that was mind blowing.

Of course, after the honeymoon was over, many developers were still scratching their heads on how to correctly use Wii's unique controller. In essence, this is when waggle was started. Many developers took Wii's motion control and turned it into just another button press. Shake it to open a door, shake it to reload, shake it to swing your weapon, shake shake shake... this wasn't the control revolution I was expecting. Sure, the games themselves could be great games, but the barrier was once again there, and a lot of the time I was back to just being someone sitting on the couch.

And then WiiMotion+ came out, along with Tiger Woods 10 and Wii Sports Resort. Man, these two games rock. Full control of your golf club is an amazing feeling, even if it does cause you to shank it each and every time. I was the golfer, and that was huge. WSR had so many things to do and see, and it was all done extremely well through the controller. Swordfighting, Basketball, Waveboarding... it was all smile inducing because I really felt like I had an impact while playing.

So yeah, what I'm really trying to say is that Zelda Wii with WM+ support is going to be amazing.

Wow so it this a *hint* from Nintendo that they need to release a new console nest year with the likes of the rumored Wii HD??? I think that is you read between the lines here that is exactly what they are saying.