Nintendo Wii, who has one Options

[Bonobo]

Okay,who else has a Nintendo Wii?

DO you like love it?

[AngryBaby]

meh, since the main argument seems to be the wii's potential sucess. lets cut everything out besides. kind of a fresh start.

Wii Q1 Release Schedule Is Sort Of… Weak
By Jason McMaster |

Historically, Nintendo hasn’t really had strong outings from third-party developers. When it comes to first-party properties, such as Mario, Zelda and Metroid, Nintendo has had great success, but when it comes to sustaining a good release schedule, they’ve been out of luck. For proof you can just look at the software lineup for the Nintendo 64 and GameCube. That’s why Reggie Fils-Aime has promised, to N’Gai Croal of Newsweek, that the Wii will be different. Well, Reggie, after looking at the first quarter release schedule, I’m going to have to doubt your claims.

In an interview last December, Reggie Fils-Aime spoke with N’Gai Croal about a possible software droubt. During this interview, Fils-Aime was asked if he would be willing to make a “read my lips” statement about continuing momentum throughout this year and into the next. Fils-Aime replied with “I thought I just did.” However, key pieces of the Nintendo release schedule appear to be missing.

Yesterday, Nintendo released a schedule of the first quarter game releases and one of Fils-Aime’s big 3 isn’t on the list as expected. In the interview with Croal, Fils-Aime noted that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption would be released early in 2007 to give Nintendo a momentum boost to carry them towards Mario Galaxy, but that doesn’t seem to be the case as Metroid Prime 3 isn’t on the list. Chris Kohler of Wired also noted that Mario Party 8 has mysteriously vanished from its Q1 release and has been moved back to Q2.

Is Nintendo up to the same old tricks again or can they actually manage to keep the fantastic momentum they worked up with the Wii launch?

Wii in trouble?
Posted in Wii by James Temperton on February 26th, 2007 at 18:22

Is the Wii suffering the same sort of problems as previous Nintendo systems? The company was confident it wouldn’t, but a lack of proper AAA titles in the coming months makes worrying reading for avid followers of the Big N.

Back in October 2006 in an interview with Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal, Nintendo of America president and all-round ass-kicker Reggie Fils-Aime stated that Wii wouldn’t suffer the same, infamous, new game drought that had afflicted previous Ninty consoles. He said that the key brands of Mario, Zelda and Metroid would “continue driving momentum through 2007″, and give Wii the support it would need to keep gamers interested.

A pretty little graph on games website gamesradar shows that the Wii isn’t delivering on the promises of ol’ Reggie. The graph compares the Wii during early its early days to the N64 and the GameCube. With both Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 probably not coming out until the end of 2007 there does appear to be a bit of a void.



The graph shows the number of games available for each console during the first four months of its launch. The white line is Wii - and you’ll see that although it’s faring better than N64, GameCube actually boasted more titles during its first two months. The Wii might see a better March though with about seventeen titles set to hit throughout the month including Mario Party 8, SSX Blur and Tiger Woods. April however looks very empty and there is a bit of a lack of a ‘killer’ title for the system in the coming months.

So, get ready for another spring/summer drought of games. Hopefully Nintendo will pull out something special and give us a few big titles before August (you never know) and a bumper Christmas to boot. Go on Nintendo, you know you want to?

- two nintendo websites.

I was watching Attack Of the Show on G4 a couple of days back, and on their debate section “The Loop” They question whether Nintendo were in Trouble again.

did you know at first, I was quick to jump to the conclusion that they weren’t , but then i thought about it… they really could be.

I mean look at these damaging factors:

- Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 Possible Delayed till X-mas
- 3rd party devs aren’t bringing out so many games

And with statements now that the Wii has the power to procude Hi-Def graphics, except it would cost more, it really makes you think hard about the somewhat “Life-Time” invest you put money into.

im not pulling anything out of my ass when i say the wii is losing momentum. its been all over the place, and logically thinking, because its not gaining software, and there is barely any credible 3rd party games to be found, i had that feeling as well. it feels there will be nothing to fill in the gap between now, and x mas season when Galaxy and metroid 3 come out. and by that time, assassins creed, Heavenly sword,DMC4,Dark sector,Halo3,Mgs4,Mass effect,Bioshock,Final fantasy XIII, GTHD will have already been out.

just looking at what they have to offer software wise and what i will be getting in the future, its pretty...weak. of course they did well at the start, thats to be expected. but you cant base that off of the systems future, because the gamecube did the exact same thing. had a good start, but slowly went down because of software issues, the exact same issue the wii seems to be having. and in this aspect, the wii will have lost in my eyes, and many others. and lets say the wii just may win in making profits, but it will lose in becoming the gamers console. and thats much worse in my opinion. yeah you are making profits right now, but at what costs?

maybe you can tell me something to erase away these worries. but what i say isnt fiction.