Nintendo to combat falling Wii sales with big game releases |
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The Nintendo Wii has been suffering a sales decline of late. Most recently, Nintendo has posted a decline in quarterly operating outfit of more than 60%. Hardware sales went down from 5.17 million from last year to 2.23 million units, while software sales dropped down by almost 10 million units to 31.07 million.
Despite these numbers, don't expect the Wii to get a price cut anytime soon. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said at a recent Nintendo investors meeting that "Right now, there aren't a lot of discussions going on about what exactly to do about hardware pricing."
Instead, Iwata believes that the slowdown in sales is due to the lack of big titles released for their home console at the moment, and they're going to remedy that by putting out some big ones. Here's what he said at the same investors meeting:
It's not the case of the quality of hardware moved, the feeling of missing strong competitive power, lacking its luster or poor sales. Consistently, big time titles will be released in the marketplace for this hardware. When that stops, to reinvigorate the console, or to put it another way, I think the current decline in hardware sales is due to the fact that there aren't many big titles (at the moment).
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Sales are falling because damn near everyone who wants a Wii has one!
If someone wanted a wii, they probably have one. Who else are they going to sell it to, those who for some reason or another furiously hate the wii and refuse to give it a fighting chance?
How they blame it on no big title release and there gonna fix that with what I saw at there E3 show was nothing but lackluster Wii motion plus addons,They could easily drop the price considering the only thing revolutionary about that system is the controller inside it's nothing but a gamecube with disc's that add a tad bit more space,how much is a gamecube at the moment?
You must have been to the fake E3. The E3 I went to showed of a new Metroid Game, 2 new Mario games, hinted at a new Zelda and that was just 1st party. I don't even know about the 3rd party ones....
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Wow, Wii sales falling. Just when Nintendo thought they would continue forever with no effort on their part. Iwata is a moron. There's lots of reasons Wii sales are spiraling downward. 1. Overpriced: Ever since it came out the system was overpriced, marking the most expensive Nintendo console ever even when the hardware itself was recycled. 2. Games Suck: There's a few exceptions, but upcoming titles from Nintendo are just depressing. I'm looking at recent Nintendo turds like "new" super mario brothers wii and Wii fit 2. Zelda? Where? I haven't seen any new Zelda on the Wii. 3. Market Over Saturation: By faking the Wii shortage, Nintendo only screwed themselves. Even people that do not play the Wii own one since it was a "hot product" during the faked shortage. 4. Used Wii Sales: When owners find out the Wii is near useless after getting bored of the limited motion sensing technology and pointless minigames and shovelware, they are looking to unload useless crap. When something is only getting used a couple times a year, it makes no sense to buy new and overpriced at $250.
As always, common sense, logic and just flat out having a brain proves you wrong. If EVEN ONE of the things you said was true, the Wii would have failed out of the gate. But it didn't. So you are wrong. As always. It took HOW MANY YEARS for the Wii to start a decline? At least do everyone a favor and TRY to THINK before you speak. There are only TWO REASONS the Wii is declining. 1. Current economic issues. 2. Saturation. REAL saturation. Your #3 has absolutely NOTHING to do with saturation. In fact, your fake shortage BS reason is the OPPOSITE OF SATURATION. Seriously bro... get your a$$ back in school and LEARN SOMETHING!!!!
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