From CNN: How the Wii is causing massive damage on the gaming industry

Why would you try and sell the greatest console ever made, Snaileb? I hope Subnet sees your idiocy.

Are you kidding dvddesign? The Wii IS made for EVERYONE! Don't you pay attention to what Nintendo is telling you? What is wrong with you people?!?!?

Keep the Wii, and abort the PS3.

Who cares if it's good or not?

Snaileb have you forgotten about SSBB? I've considered pawning mine off too, but then I realize I got it for Brawl, and everything else becomes extra bonuses.

"As young consumers started careers and families, they gradually cut back on game time."

I've experienced this observation on both sides of a career. Enjoy your free time while you have it, guys.

You know what could potentially really suck? Since the Wii will sell the most consoles, its probably gonna end up getting the most games, and therefore most game sales. If this happened, the next "console war" might be between a pack of cheap "accessible" consoles that appeal to everyone, rather than the variety that we have now. It would really suck for the companies to try to go for the cheapest, trendiest console rather than the one with the best graphics and games. Just throwing that out there.

"As young consumers started careers and families, they gradually cut back on game time."

Unless your career is in video games. But it does become a rare endeavor to get any multi-player time with friends who have families or jobs.

And as long as people dress up cosplay for videogames, they're is always going to be an audience buying the Power Glove or Virtual Boy.

Nice try Kannon, you almost had me. Let Summa speak for himself and change your damn avatar already

Kannon your strategy idea is perfect except for 1 thing...the people who are not into gaming that bought a Wii on impulse becasue of Wii sports are not going to be buying a large amount of games...maybe 1 or 2 per year...imo.

Well.. its the same guys that gave the "Game of the century" award to freakin "Wii sports"

Even as a "Wii Fanboy" you only have to check the comments and articles in gaming sites (and digg) to realize the Wii star is already dimming out. Just 3 months ago it was IMPOSSIBLE to post any remotely bad press for the Wii on digg (my personal favorite was a comment reading only "Wii FTW!" that got 220 diggs). Right now you can actually post some bad press on the Wii and it will actually appear on the front page. Same goes for ps3 news. (which is apparently the Wii nemesis or something) The Wii (insane) popularity is declining slowly but steadily.

Here in Mexico the Wii price was cut down (in certain stores) to $280 (instead of the initial $500) in general, nobody cares.

The Wii will reach its 10 million sold status and get mano a mano with the 360 (probably when Mario Brawl hits) but after that( unless Mario Galaxy is beyond good or the Star wars game hits around xmas) sales will slowly go down, and people will FINALLY realize the Wii isnt targetted at them and move to another console (which one? I dont care)

The only reason I turn mine on is to vote on the voting channel. Other than that, I'm just waiting for Smash Bros.

This doesn't matter. There's always going to be a market for us "hardcore" gamers. There is always going to be enough graphics whores to keep the good hard/software coming. The Wii is cheaper, and gramma's lack of motor skills wont stop her from bowling a strike. That's all they got. I say let them carve out a niche. Good, and when some of those consumers get bored, they'll come to the darkside. I also understand that hardcore gamers can want a Wii.

My dad tried 1080 snowboarding on the N64 and laughed his ass off as he crashed everywhere. He's an avid golfer with a near-pro handicap and I can't get him to try Wii Sports golf or bowling (another of his favorite pastimes).

Yeah, real solid strategy there Nintendo. 1080 snowboarding got my dad to try out N64, yet your attempts to woo him with 'simplified controls' failed miserably. Thank god for console shortages or I would actually own a Wii.

And fuck the VC. I want new games.

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You should copy your posts before you post them, that way if there is an error you can just go back and paste.

Hey! Remember the Nintendo DS? Remember how people thought it was going to fail and that the games would only appeal to people who are usually non-gamers?

Yeah! What happened to that? It got popular and beat the shit out of the PSP?! No way!

Well, screw that. The Wii is definitely going to fail! History would NEVER repeat itself!

One guy thinks digg or gaming sites are indicative of the populus, another thinks going for the widest group of people is carving out a niche, and another thinks nintendo's strategy has backfired because his dad hasn't played it. We're surrounded by idiots.

Hey guys, I can give you 38 reasons why I don't participate in these discussions anymore. Counting's much more fun than arguing, so get to it!

Frankly, I don't see why people are still bitchin' and moaning about this. I especially don't understand why summa keeps writing these articles. Yes, we get you hate nintendo, how many times must you remind us? I don't hate the wii, but i'm not in love with it either. I'ts good that they are aiming for a bigger audience and bringing more people into videogames but it's also bad because more rushed and terrible games are going to come out for it. I also applaud them for not making a big deal on graphics because people these days focus way to much on them. Good graphics don't equal good games people! I mean most games on the ps3 now range from mediocre to terrible.
And yes, the wii needs ssmb and mario galaxies.

Le yawn. I challenge any person here to name a console that had a significantly better lineup of software after 6 months than the wii. This is early adoption. Suck it up foos. A good reference for the wii is the DS. As stated in the article, it sucked for a whole year, now it's one of the best bits of gaming kit of all time, largely thanks to the popularity gleaned from appealing to the non-gamer market. It also baffles me how everyone insistent on the wii's suckage and game/mario drought is completely ignoring super paper mario. A hardcore, decent length game appealing mainly to the hardcore and featuring mario. In what way is this inadequate?

I'm also of the opinion that anyone who thinks there are no good games imminent for the wii are delusional. Apart from the oft bandied SSBB, mario galaxy and metroid, there's project hammer, disaster: day of crisis, batallion wars 2, fire emblem, umbrella chronicles, sadness, project S, no more heroes, treasure island z, dewy's adventure, opoona, dragon quest swords, mario strikers, nights... and that's just the ones I can think of off the top of my head which are exclusive to the wii. Most of them should be good, and most should be released this year.

The article really had nothing most of us didn't know 6 months ago, if a well written account of it. Didn't read anything about the wii hitting the industry's weak points, though.

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Thank you ok, your much better at voicing your opinion than me. I like the wii more or less and im tired of summa writing these dumb articles while sucking a sony CEO's cock. Summa do everyone a favor, take the penis out of your mouth and write a good article for once. And this time do it without contradicting yourself you sony fanboy prick!

If anything, Summa is an X-box fanboy. He writes PLENTY of bad press against Sony, trust me.

But when he does post bad press against Sony, he tends to be a text-book Sony apologist and puts a spin on it in such a way that attempts to make it not look as bad for Sony. Or if it's good Sony news, he fluffs it up to be a much bigger deal than it really is. Exactly the opposite of how he treats pretty much all Nintendo news, good or bad.

The only exceptions are perhaps those instances that occur directly after he has posted one of his Wii-rants, during which he got called out once again for being a Sony fanboy, and in which he's trying to "prove" he's not sucking Sony's dick by being ever so slightly more critical of them than he usually is.

But you're right. The Xbox certainly seems to get a relatively free pass here as well, though nobody is as blatantly pro-Microsoft (or anti-Microsoft) as Summa is pro-Sony (and anti-Nintendo).

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Jokes on me. I thought Summa might actually have found a good article here in which CNN stated that the Wii (which really is sub-standard by most media outlets gaming wise) was destroying the actual gaming market by drawing attention away and dumbing down the industry.

Instead what do I see? An article stating that the Wii was laying waste to the gaming industry sales wise.

Booo you cock-tease.