Comments on: Is The Wii Drying Up?

By: Cyberbike – Wii Exercise Bike

Cyberbike – Wii Exercise Bike — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:59:40 +0000

[...] me into trading my Wii in for an Xbox 360. Each person has their own personal taste, but to me, the Wii really does look like it’s starting to dry up and has had it’s day. Let’s hope I’m made to eat my words and the Wii will turn around and shock us next [...]

By: Xbox 360 Full-Body Motion Controller

Xbox 360 Full-Body Motion Controller — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:55:03 +0000

[...] Let us know what you think about the apparent boom in motion sensor technology for the gaming giants in the comments below, is this the way forward? Or has the novelty of this type of mainstream gameplay run it’s course with the possibility of the success of the Wii drying up? [...]

By: Xbox Project Natal - Full Body Motion Controller Announced

Xbox Project Natal - Full Body Motion Controller Announced — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:36:02 +0000

[...] market that Nintendo seem to have sewn up right now, should this have Nintendo worried about their successful Wii drying up? Can Microsoft beat them at their own [...]

By: Super Mario Buzzes To Another Galaxy In 2010

Super Mario Buzzes To Another Galaxy In 2010 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:14:18 +0000

[...] rightly it was voted as Best Game in the BAFTA Video Games Awards 2009, so perhaps it can help to stop the Wii drying up? Check out the Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer below, it’s good fun! Let us know what you [...]

By: costijn

costijn — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:28:23 +0000

are you guys completely crazy! haven’t you seen the games that are coming out in june? i think each of them will reach 85%!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:13 +0000

i think the wii-motion plus will send out a few really great games, apparently people from tiger woods think this will increase sensitivity to an almost 1:1 realistic swing, which could be kind of awesome

By: Daniel Primed

Daniel Primed — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:46:19 +0000

The problem doesn’t really lie with the Wii, instead the enthusiast media who produce the opinions and reviews around it. The console targets a broad market spectrum, and yet the people who review and shape the opinions of readers clash with the demograph many of these titles are being made for. Can we really trust a narrow-perspective, “hardcore” gamer to provide opinions about a game designed for a market which they don’t belong to? Well, we should be able to, but unfortunately the methodology for games reviewing favours that of graphically superior, more complex titles for that hardcore gamer market. The majority of these people have the wrong mindset.

The same reasons apply for the criticism that the software attach rates are lower on the Wii. Well of course they are, considering the console is serving a market that consumes games at a slower rate than us long time fans.

As for the Japanese sales, this is a small result of a recent sales boost of the Playstaion 3, and is hardly representative of anything, especially considering the console is still pretty much selling out worldwide. There are almost as many Wii Fit scales as PS3 consoles, there is simply no competition and it will likely stay this way for the next few years.

The good part about all this is that in the end, the Wii consumers have so little connection with the enthusiast media. This audience simply doesn’t care for the PS3/360, let alone know what their names are, so really it’s just a whole bunch of “real” players raging amongst themselves. There’s nothing wrong with the Wii, it’s not dying, the enthusiast player is just as typically myopic as ever.

I could argue this point forever. >_<