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Wii 2 Delay Is Hurting Nintendo
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.'"
Games where the interface doesn't require you to shake around your controller for no reason other than the controller can detect shakes is one. Games that actually have some depth and fun past the "look I'm moving my arm and it's affecting what is on the screen!" are another. Go look at the Wii section in a game store sometime and see how many things are there that you'd actually enjoy playing past the novelty factor. "Party" games can be fun on the Wii, but mostly because you're playing with other people rather than because they're actually any fun as games - they'd be very dull against the CPU.
The games I've enjoyed most on the Wii are Zelda, Need For Speed Carbon, Super Mario Paper and Tetris Party.. all games which have no real need for motion controls.
which is totally what she said
That's because you're a nerd. You know who plays the Wii? Not nerds. And kids. Adolescent boys and young adult male nerds play their PS3/Xbox360 a bunch. Kids without anger management issues and people with lives play the Wii. And adults well past their newly acquired testosterone fueled pubescent desire to shoot things and make them blow up and high five their buddies about their impressive polygon count.
Incorrect. Nintendo actually pioneered the idea of selling the consoles at a loss and making the money back on games. The Wii is the first console since the NES to be sold at a profit.