Haha.

Poor Iwata! His pool of jello doesn't have whipped cream in it anymore! Japan is a smaller place than America, so of course it won't bounce back as well there after the price drop as it would in other places. Anyways, with a new system presumably coming in somewhere around 1-2 years away, this "tragedy" will be good motivation to make sure the next one is more than just an HD Wii. Innovation is the only thing Nintendo has going for it, and with Sony and Microsoft going motion as well, it will have to innovate even more than the Wii did to stand out.

UH OH! Sounds like Nintendo needs us, you know... gamers. Those half ass "Just fucking shake your arm around, burn 10 calories, and think sometimes" games must not be cutting it anymore huh?

Maybe Nintendo will start making games again.

Why nit just release a. Updated version of the wii every couple of years like the ds? If it works for the ds, then why not the wii?

@Stevil, of COURSE some companies think long term! These are things you should know by now.....
also, what HEL105 said. Regarding new gamers.

This just means we're one step closer to that fabled 1080p next-gen Zelda I've been dreaming of.

I don't give my Wii that much attention at all these days...

I do disagree that everyone who wants a Wii has one. Certainly, the people who were jumping for joy when it was announced have one, but what about families like mine, who didn't get a Wii until last Christmas? There will always be a market for it, just like there's still a market for PS2s. It's just smaller, and since they've made more than enough to produce the Wii's successor, I'm not concerned.

Also, I didn't read anything in Sterling's article about anything on the Wii not being a game. Is that true, Sterling? If something is ported to the Wii does it cease to be a game? (Meant in all seriousness and no malice.)

MORE GAMES THAT AREN'T IMAGINE BABYZ

where the Wii fails is that 95% of their customer base don't buy many games or DLC or pay any kind of ongoing fee like XBL Gold or whatever. Therefore if they ain't selling systems they will quickly get in trouble. Because in business no one cares how many sales you made last year.

360 and PS3 on the other hand, install base has grown slower, but man don't some of us lay down some serious bank on games and extras for our systems. Unless of course there is some new hardware refresh the Wii isn't going to have a good 2010.

Maybe they should have made some actual games for their game system. Or at least taped THREE GameCube's together when building it.

I wish I could sell my Wii, but the damn thing makes me so angry I can't even think about it without smashing something.

Just so you know: Any of you that want to sell your Wii for $20 (since you seem to think it's worth as much as a similarly sized concrete block) can contact me. My parents own the Wii and I live 200 miles away.

there are a few things that the big N HAS to do to keep control of the market. #1: Start releasing high quality software more than twice a year (where the hell are f-zero, star fox, and pikmin?). #2: Do something to bring third party support back to Nintendo hardware (which hasn't been there since SNES). #3: Stop releasing new hardware, we don't need a new piece of plastic to add to the pile (and maybe a real game that supports the balance board?).

If you keep releasing cheese peripherals (ie vitality sensor), you are going to watch your market share disappear. oh, and a belated #4: Get rid of EVERYONE at NOA. They're doing a horrible job for you.

Fix NOA and wait for 2010. Problem solved.

You know, maybe im in a long shot here, but...

What if nintendo... start to release games... i mean, like GOOD games?

I know it may sound crazy but maybe, just maybe, that could make the wii regain strenght?

@Emrah:

Why make less money when they can make MOAR MUNNIEZ???

IWATA: IS THE DS LL OUT YET? NO WELL MAKE ANOTHER ITERATION AND THIS TIME INCORPORATE A HEARTBEAT SENSOR. WHAT WE ALREADY ARE DOING THAT? MAKE IT COMPATIBLE WITH WHAT WE ARE DOING.

WHAT? THE WII IS NOT SELLING? LUDICROUS. I CHOPPED OFF LIKE 50 BUCKS FROM THE PRICE. WHAT THE HELLS WRONG. I NEED A NEW DIAMOND OFFICE CHAIR WHEEL THIS ONE IS DIRTY. MIYAMOTO.

MIYAMOTO: Yes sir?

IWATA: ACTIVATE THE MARIO RAPE MACHINE.

MIYAMOTO: But.... sir he cannot take much more. We have extracted everything, all he has left is a waining will to live.

IWATA: PROFITS ARE DOWN. UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE YOUR NINTENDOG AGAIN YOU WILL DO AS I COMMAND

MIYAMOTO: Not Wesley!, I'm sorry Mario. *click*


*Nintendo announces new mario game, AND ITZ NOT GALAXY 2! will be revealed at e3*

@E3: Wii would like to take everyone in and keep it fresh for todays changing industry. Which is why we have a familiar face, with a new concept. ladies and gentleman. behold.


Future Mario revealed. There are laser guns and rockets boots.



...
It's going to happen.

greed

Maybe, just maybe, releasing some fucking games might just help.

@shinryu108
Don't forget new Pikmin.

@GEMPadre
when Nintendo decided to put money into development of Wii Music, that was a waste of time and money that could have been spent on any number of games that the single greatest developer, Shigeru Miyamoto, could have spent on something more important. When they decided to put it as the focus point of a large presentation for the gaming press at e3, that was an embarrassment for the gaming industry. All the money they put into the marketing and production of the game across 3 continents was a waste. All because they tried to capitalize on the music market by making a casual version of a game in a genre that was starting to show signs of over saturation by the mainstream.

Thats one example. Not publishing Mother 3 over here is another. No localized Wii no Ma, Disaster Day of Crisis, Fatal Frame 4, the pizza ordering channel for the Wii. Nothing. Not even one new channel to bolster attention to the wii (like MS with NXE). And this is just complaints from a North American Nintendo consumer.

The fact that they haven't produced or helped publish an original ip in 3 years when they have had a dramatic upsurge in revenue is a big issue. When Japanese publishers are complaining about stagnation and you have a Japanese company that has a completely revolutionary concept on game design, that's a big issue. Nintendo is the top company in the Japanese game industry with the wii and they can't bolster 3rd party support while everyone is developing DS games, that's an issue.

They can do all this and still produce games that can't compete with Microsoft or Sony is a big issue. I haven't seen one game that Nintendo has made better with motion controls. I'm still waiting for a AAA RTS which seems like an obvious choice with a wiimote (especially since the 360 has like 7 or 8), but since Nintendo hasn't fostered the concept to hardcore game developers we're stuck with Wii Motion Plus.

Nintendo has put their money into creating games for people who purchase on a whim. That is a current problem.

Also, statistically speaking the consoles that are most remembered during any given generation are the ones with the best RPGs. I can count plenty on both HD consoles, but I can't think of more than a handful of them on the wii.

Game creation might be a problem passed onto 3rd parties, but if I was going to push a console out, I'd have decent representation from some developers who can make games in genres that I don't make.

We haven't seen Nintendo do anything since launch (outside of last e3) to make a dent in the software sales slump. If you want to put that on the lack of developer support thats fine, but if I had companies that didn't want to make games for my system and I'm starting to see month over month sales drops, I'd try to get some support to bolster sales.

Nintendo has had it all to win this console generation, but my attachment rate of games is 4 to 1 for 360 to wii games and 5 to 0 representing these past few months.

All of the above can be fixed by Nintendo. Too bad Nintendo isn't going to fix any of them.

Lets not forget $200 is still expensive for what the console offers. Especially considering their new market is the casual gamer, and as a result the hardcore gamer has been let down by the Wii. I'm still pushing a $100 price tag. If they want to move units thats the way to do it.

Good, now make great games for the system.

Sounds like right timing for that new NSMBW, eh?

he needs some cheese with that whine.
boo hoo.
poor nintendo.
they tried oh so hard and look what happened.
they need a whamburger with those cries.
oh pity nintendo, just a dam pity.
maybe he'll have to use the regular bathrooms now.
such a shame.