Oh Ninty

If you're considering buying a Wii, consider buying a CRT especially for it.
There's definitely a very decent back cat of games that make purchase worthy. The Galaxy games, obviously, also the Trauma Centre and No More Heroes games.

There's plenty to recommend buying a Wii.

Xenoblade Chronicles, SMG 1 and 2, Sin and Punishment, Punch Out, Dead Space Extraction, Zelda, Metroid Trilogy. In fact, SMG2 is alone is enough, and Skyward Sword really should be the clincher.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo have all the money in the world, so I doubt they're going to fold their hardware side anytime soon.

That "loss" hardly makes a dent in Nintendos wallet. DS and Wii, peripherals and games have sold like crack, not too long ago.

The Wii U looks promising to me. I'm gonna be the wait n see guy on this one.

For me the Wii will forever be that little box you can chuck away in a cupboard for 12 months only to dig it out for 30 hours of incredibly polished gameplay which reminds you exactly why people are so sick of men with guns gameplay.

I'd rate LKS and Galaxy very highly among my games of the generation and I still think Metroid Prime might be my favourite game ever. (Yes I know it wasn't Ninty but I doubt Retro had 0 outside consultation). I got rid of my Wii but I still nick the family one to play these sparse releases which feel far more special than each iteration of GoW or Assassins Creed, mainly becuase even something like Mario, who has had countless iterations, still manages to be fresher on release than the third installment of a current gen franchise, precisely becuase they are ready and willing to stretch the formula into places unknown.

Nintyendo gon' be roun' ferever.

Adn not judst for fagsd.

Going from a £693 million profit to a £164 million loss in one year is pretty fucking bad.

I thought this loss was largely currency related.

That said they do have testing times ahead after pretty much having it all the own way for the last 6 years.

NIntendo's fortunes have been up and down more times than I care to remember. It's what they do.

As for Wii, I'd agree with what's been said - I play it less than 360 overall, but it probably has more of my favourite games of the last 5 years on it. I've played more 360 games, but I've kept more Wii games.

They hit big with the Wii, 'non-gamers' lapped it up, those same casuals are not going to go crazy for the WiiU. They'll just stick with the Wii and Wii Sports that came with it. It was always going to be hard to follow the Wii unless they discovered the 'next big thing', the drop off in sales was inevitable too with saturation. Hopefully when I get board game market data in the future, they'll stop referring to slumps in sales as 'the Wii effect', wankers.

I could never understand why they made the 3DS look exactly the same at the Lite. You can have all the new fangled 3D-o'vison tech in the world, but when the external case looks the same as the one you've got in your pocket, the question is: "Mummy, why do I need one of those?".

They should've gone for a scallop-type design instead.

Elmlea wrote:
MattyJ wrote:Going from a £693 million profit to a £164 million loss in one year is pretty fucking bad.

If you don't change anything, sure, but if Wii sales stop and you plough loads of money into developing/announcing the WiiU and releasing the 3DS, then you'd expect a bit of a dip.

MattyJ wrote:
True, obviously the 3DS sold far less than they thought it would. Just loosing £800 million....ouch.

In the long run I think Nintendos strategy is sound; seperating the console from the game experience but in a more personal way, kind of like a local cloud system.

I see the Wii Us potential in shifting how people think of accessing games, streaming and switching them from one Display to the next but - in contrast to OnLive - locally driven. The Wii was positioned as a family device, something that is shared while the PS3 and XBox position themselves a a very personal, dedicated high-end machines that you might share in local multiplayer sessions but are much more probable to use online.

Of course Nintendo's Online service is nonexistent but that is also part of why we see the Wii as not comparable to other current gen consoles (And not only because of the graphics). The Wii U continues that notion I believe, trying to establish itself as a household device, something that isn't just your property but that is also shared (Kind of like a TV in a family household).

Mod74 wrote:
What's in the pipeline this year? I enjoyed Wallace and Gromit.