Wii 2 Delay Is Hurting Nintendo

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 6, 2010 @04:58PM from the hurting-all-the-way-to-the-bank dept.

BanjoTed writes "Michael Pachter's ongoing spat with Nintendo regarding the Wii 2 is well documented. Pachter is sure it's coming, Nintendo says it's not. Now the analyst has gone one further by claiming that the declining sales of the Wii documented in the platform holder's recent financial statements will only get worse unless it speeds up attempts to get its successor to market. He said, 'The reason for this is clear: the software being created is just not interesting enough or compelling enough to drive Wii owners to buy more than two [games] per year, and most of those purchases are first party software. We can blame the third party publishers for making shovelware, or for misjudging the Wii market, but the simple fact is that the publishers have to develop completely separate games for the Wii because its CPU is not powerful.'"

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Re:Gee, didn't someone get lynched for saying that by RightSaidFred99 · 2010-05-07 14:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

September 1st, 2007:
Mary: I don't think we can afford a $500k house, Dick.
Dick: Oh Mary, stop worrying. House values always go up, and we don't even pay any interest for 2 years! We're set for life on the money we'll make from this baby!
Eventually the naysayers are right, and all things come to an end. Same with Nintendo - and I mean more like 5 years than when the sun goes supernova.