‘Wii Crash’??

Posted by Blakeborough on Apr 20, 2009 in DS, Features, Games, Nintendo, Wii | View Comments

This has mildly annoyed me.

Yahoo Games, the videogames section of Yahoo’s increasing number of review sections has predicted that Japanese sales of the Nintendo Wii are falling and that this surely means the console is doomed to suffer a ‘crash’ and fail under the weight of its competitors.

Sadly, for a portion of the Yahoo network that covers the UK and Ireland, ‘Yahoo! UK Games Editor’ states that

“We’ve no facts and figures to comment on Europe just now, so going back a step we can talk about what’s happening Stateside.”

Shame really as the rest of the article seems to just be moaning about the Wii. Which seems to have been done by someone else at Yahoo! games the other day, but whatever.

I agree that the release schedule for the Wii is looking a bit sparse but I certainly won’t be writing off the console. In a few weeks I should be joining the legions of XBox360 worshippers, so its not like I stick to one console, but there does seem to be something about the family friendly appeal of the Wii that seems to make reviewers desperate to see it fail. Personally I can’t really work it out but there are gamers who also hate ‘casual gamers’ and take it as a personal afront that they are catered for.

Boo and hiss to them I say. No, I don’t really want a cheerleading game, but some people do, and I’m glad that gaming has opened up to a wider audience. The games that gamers want are still being made and I manage to visit Game without a copy of Pippa Funnell following me home, so we’re hardly forced to buy them.

Sigh. Anyway, so do we think the Wii will fail? I think it has a tendancy to be associated with gimmicky games and peripherals, but there have been plenty of amazing (and very adult) games to satisfy a dedicated game fan and opens up the market to the next generation of gamer as well as our parents and grandparents.

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People have been waiting for the Wii to fail from the moment it became populare.

I think its fantastic that it has made gaming for every one and its no longer niche.

As some one who does play alot games I am a little sad that the Wii doesnt really cater to my needs at the moment, but I know it gives others the perfect half an hour distraction every now and again.

It has achieved alot and completely changed perception of what a computer games are and can do, wii fit is the best example of this.

It is true the sales of the Wii are dropping in Japan at the moment, but so are sales of all games because of this niffty credit crunch we are in. Also last year the wii had Super Smash Bros, Wii Fit and Mario Kart all new and shinny at this time last year. But no system is partiuclarly strong right now. Sales of the 360 and PS3 have also had a drastic nose dive recently compared to last year because this time last year GTA 4 was released.

I think this is going to become a trend that games sales will drop at this point in the year as game studios hold off their large titles to the end of the year where they will guarantee a large revenue.

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‘Wii Crash’??