Nintendo Reduces Wii Production

Lagging sales I'd say. It has to stop sooner or later...

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knowing my luck its drop in popularity. Would pray for a revamped system. Those worrying sales reports from big publishers are circling again with regards to the lack of software shifted on the systems.

Wii's still got some life in it yet, and I think sales will get better next year when some big games come out. Nintendo still have room to reduce the price even further. They're still making a profit on it.

I think it's inevitable that the PS3 will start selling more than the Wii eventually, it's a more powerful machine that has more functionality, so its bound to have more life in it.

Sony's game sales arnt any better then Nintendos on average.
A few big hitters, but mostly its pretty poor.

360 is still actualy the best in terms of games-sold-per-system;
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/ltd-tie-ratio-29-months-march-2009-fixed.png
(remember that's all relative, in absolute terms the wii has sold far more games)



You mean like how the Dreamcast, N64 and Gamecube all were such success's?

The Dreamcst, N64 and Gamecube had very lackluster third party support, compromised on game storage capacity (limiting the future expansion of games) and were owned by relatively small companies when compared to Sony. Sony has a lot more money to throw behind it and a lot of third party support (even if there aren't many big hitters yet). It's a completely different ball game.

Sony has yet to make a profit on the PS3, and the games division keeps going deeper and deeper into the red.

Nintendo might be scaling back production of the Wii, but when the console still sells over 1 million units worldwide a month, making a profit since day one, selling 1 million and selling 700,000 a month makes a difference in your bottom line, but that bottom line is still waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the competitions.

Now, if Nintendo stops selling the Wii RIGHT NOW, it would only take Sony 4 years to catch up to the Wii's install base...

Saying the PS3 will sell more than Wii because it's more powerful is, uite frankly, incorrect. The PS3 was weaker than both the Gamecube and the Xbox, but it totally kicked their asses. And Sony really doesn't have much third-party support right now at all, when you consider that almost every game that comes out on the PS3 also comes out on the much moer affordable and better connected Xbox 360.
If Sony outsells Nintendo in the future, it won't be with the PS3. The only major exclusive even coming up for the PS3 is God of War 3, and it isn't a game that will make people buy a PS3.

Sony gambled with Blu-ray and lost. They tried too hard to make an entertainment machine and not hard enough to make a game machine. The simple fact is that nobody wants to pay $500 to play four okay games that last about six hours each. The blu-ray, while being a ncie feature for the more tech-heavy, just isn't as important to people as DVD was with the PS2. That was an entire format shift; if you didn't have a DVD player, you didn't get to watch movies. It was a necessity, and an affordable one. Blu-ray, on the other hand, is more like an accessory. It's also very expensive.

In the future, I imagine the cost to make PS3 will go down and the system will eventually become affordable, but I don't see this happening in time for the PS3 to suddenly blow the Xbox 360, let alone the Wii, out of the water. By the time the PS3 is as affordable as its competetors or has as much support, we'll probably be on the verge of the next generation of game consoles.

I would have agreed a couple of years ago, but I really do think the PS3 has turned it around significantly in the last 18 months. The price has been vastly reduced ($299 down from $599), and the PS3 helped the Blu-Ray format win it's battle against HD-DVD.

The amount of exclusives has grown with more arriving next year and the quality of 360 ports has increased to a point where both are near-enough identical.

The sales might not have shot through the roof like the Wii and it may never sell as many units, but it most certainly won't be considered a failure at the end of this gen.



The PS3 has the same amount of support as the 360 now and is even at the same price as an Xbox Elite so it's value has shot up quite a lot. Blu-Ray is starting to gain ground and will start to make the PS3 look much more attractive to buyers in the next few years, especially once the price comes down further and more people start to buy big HDTVs. Blu-Ray films themselves are also getting cheaper.

I've yet to buy a PS3 (own a Wii and 360) but will be getting one maybe next year.

Oh, by no means, am I calling the PS3 a failure. But there's nothing to suggest that it will suddenly rocket in popularity.

Again, I know it has a lot of third-party support... but almost none of it is exclusive. You can get most of the games for the Xbox 360, and they'll have a better online ability, which is a huge factor in this generation. But what goes even further, is that the games that are exclusive to the Wii and exclusive to the Xbox 360 are performing much better than those exclusive to the 360. Not to mention, the PS3's price drop took a hit: it won't play PS2 games, now (though I've heard this will change, I'm not sure on it to say more) so very few people are going to invest in it as much.

Sure, I expect there to be a bit of a boost in PS3 sales. But again, I definitely don't see it even overtaking the 360, let alone the Wii. Especially since by the time this boost happens, the Wii will likely be touting more first party games, like Mario, Metroid, and Zelda. Meanwhile, the PS3 will have a few cute 7-hour games, and a lot of high-definition movies. Now just isn't the time to be trying to get people to buy more expensive TVs and movie players, and not having any killer apps to fall back on isn't helping.

Sony assumed they had a hardcore following; that people would buy the PS3 because they liked the PS2, that developers would make games exclusively for PS3 because they liked PS2. This didn't end up happening. Sony took a lot of chances, and currently, they aren't paying off. I think they will do better than they're doing now, but I don't think they'll be the frontrunner of this generation.

The PS3 at some point will start selling more than the Wii (maybe not lifetime sales but on a monthly basis). The Wii has started from scratch as out of date hardware, and as more and more people get HD TV's they will want something that looks good on it, and games companies want to make the best looking games they can, which means many will stop making games on Wii prematurely (as is already happening to some extent). To compare the PS2 to the Wii is ridiculous, because although the PS2 was the weaker console of it's generation, it was only by a relatively small margin unlike the gap between Wii and PS3/360.

The PS3 also does have strong third party support (I don't know where your coming up with these, four six hour games from, but you obviously don't own a PS3) and a growing number of excellent exclusives (God of War 3, Uncharted 1 & 2, Gran Tourismo 5, Heavy Rain, Killzone 2, Ratchet and Clank, Wipeout and Metal Gear Solid 4 among others).

Since when did Sony lose with Blueray? They won the format war, created an HD ready movie player & allowed for bigger, more complex games to be created with the massive storage space. Since when was that a lose sitaution?

360 is not better connected either. PS3 is excellent online (with exclusives like MAG boasting 256 player battles) whether your playing games, surfing the internet, watching BBCi player or downloading movies. Oh and you don't have to pay for the privilege.

Maybe it's just because everyone who wants a Wii already has one, pretty much. Whereas the 360 and PS3 are still growing their user bases, the Wii user base has grown at at an exponential rate for the past three years. Maybe they've just plateaued.