Iwata: “Wii Has Lost Momentum & Has No Decent Games”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 30, 2009 01:14 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Business, Mario, Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, Statistics, Wii
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has publicly admitted the Wii’s momentum has slowed and that a failure to deliver any decent games has soured the public to the console.
His statements were made after the company had to announce a 58% drop in net profits and a 43% drop in Wii sales…
Along with the nosediving sales, he frankly admitted the Wii was having difficulties:
“The Wii has lost momentum. We’ve been unable to keep introducing good software, and the favourable mood towards the console has cooled.”
In April he admitted that “the Wii’s position is perilous,” but it seems he has done nothing much in the mean time to rectify matters.
The recent Wii price cut, made in response to the PS3 Slim’s release, did have a positive effect on hardware sales, but this does not disguise the fact that the most notable Wii title of late is nothing but a remake of a 25-year-old Mario game – possibly Nintendo will have to do better than rehashed fitness games and remade “classics” if it wishes to compete with compelling line-ups from Microsoft and Sony…
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Combination of;
- Stupidly high price for last gen hardware
- Severve lack of 'proper' games
- The 'wow' factor of motion controls has faded, leaving people to realize they just don't work as good as traditional controller methods
I think a Wii is worth it for Nintendo's games, especially since I can't get none of Shiggy's games on my 360 or PS3. If I have to waggle to play the newest Zelda, Mario, Smash Bros., Metroid, or (hopefully someday) Donkey Kong then I will.
Iwata....
This can all be fixed if you stop being selfish
and let someone publish FF4 in the Us.
If they make a snuff game where you use the Wii-mote to
inflict and interact, then I am very sure it will top the sales of the 360 and PS3...
It might also help if you can snuff lolis, shotas, and the occasional MILF and hot Bishounens...
*sigh*
But I won't be seeing that happening in my lifetime...
Wii is a complete shit, it only sold a lot because there are that many idiots around.
Maybe if they had actually put more effort into the development of the Wii int he first place.....;_;
Everyone that wants a wii to play wii fit already owns one. No good games gives it a short shelf life.
except for muramasa of course.
This site would be so much better if you guys chose not to cover this ridiculous console war bullshit.
This.
I find console war bullshit has little to do with schoolgirl tentacle rape.
i pretty much concur on all points here. wii has a lot of potential but their game selection blows. haven't touched mine since dokapon kingdom (sic).
YESSSSS KILL THE WII!!! LONG LIVE PS3/360!!!
I didn't like this generation anyways. It was shit to begin with.
People finally realised that waggling your cock is a million times more fun than waggling on a wii
THIS IS MADNESS!
It should start by stop saying no to all those good games
Just to be a meanie: WE TOLD YOU SO!
Wii is dying, Xbox360 is dead, PS3 wins
Oh really? Whose fault is that, Nintendo? That's right, yours. You didn't make enough of an effort to pull third parties over to your side or make the Wii an enticing enough platform to develop games on. It's purely a last gen console. Suck on it.
As much as I hate to admit it (I'm a Nintendo fangirl, after all) I've got to agree. I recently went through a list of RPGs, Strategy RPGs, and other such things to make a list of games to get once I have a wii. I couldn't even find a dozen games between the five or six genres I searched that weren't remakes or ports which interested me.
Never once in the interview did they say the Wii has "No decent games". That's just a phrase auto-generated in video game articles that are not about the PS3. It's just the logic of Sony's company whore squad, er, I mean Sankaku Complex.
Just how would you like us to believe it is best translated then?
Iwata: "Wii has lost Momoentum" is all that is needed, and factual for that matter.
A new system is in the works, right? I thought i remembered hearing that..
Since I enjoy playing games like Muramasa while waiting for other great games like Fragment I don't care about the sales. Did you ever care about sales the sales of Dreamcast when you were playing games like Ikaruga and Shenmue? If your answer is yes, then you don't know how to really enjoy videogames.
I was obviously too interested in finding out where sailors hung out in shenmue than the sales of a system. Anyways, I honestly agree that the dreamcast had so many awesome games, it's a shame that it segas marketing screwed it over.
It's true SEGA just doesn't seem to care anymore about a high quality product. They know what the SEGA fanbase wants; Streets of Rage, Guardian Heroes, Alien Soldier, Jet Grind Radio, Shenmue, Shinobi, Panzer Dragoon and last but sure as hell not lease Gunstar Heroes. Some of the best shit I ever played from SEGA seemingly forgotten by the higher ups of the company because they think it won't sell. If any of those games get a modern update it'll sell even if SEGA marking department screws it over because the fans will speak the truth.
Is there really anything wrong for enjoying the Wii just for the Nintendo games? They are pretty good
You get your money's worth anyway.
For now, Nintendo wins with their cheap consoles and substantially larger profit margins.
The Wii gets some games with high production values... No More Heroes, Tales of Graces, Monster Hunter 3, and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories come to mind.
I respect Nintendo for actually admitting something like this.
Let's sit back and watch how they plan to get back on track..
Wii has good games, non-gamer HD fans just ignore them and Wii owners pirate them.
The Wii needs to die so the industry can crumble, worst fucking generation ever.
They need to reinstate the Nintendo Seal of Quality. They need draconian monitoring of game quality. If your game fucking sucks, you don't get to publish it.
Yes, clearly even greater restrictions on who could publish is the key, when they have hardly anyone wanting to publish on them already.
You were the sort of kid that thought that when no one wanted to pay a quarter for your watered-down lime koolaid that you should up the price to a dollar, weren't you?
Except that they are the ones publishing all the key games...
The problem with Nintendo is they tend focus on to much on there own stuff not on Third Party.They had some good titles the problem is Nintendo needs to aleast develope some game that people would buy its sad enough Nintendo doesn't grab the right titles that can be played on there system.
Nintendo Introduce Final Fantasy to Us Gamers on NES why doesn't Squareenix put Final Fantasy XIII on Nintendo Wii?
because the snes 'was' the superior system at the time. in my books its still the best for its time.
Don't worry, the vitality sensor will save them :(
This is what they get for focusing on casuals and telling hardcore gamers to fuck off because they're not "beautiful people". Seriously, every commercial for a new wii game just gives me more disappointment for buying a wii instead of a ps3 or 360.
hm I thought the arrival of Monster Hunter Tri- would help... guess it didn't, huh..
Well I'm looking forward to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. But I gotta admit... the Wii has nothing going for it right now. They really have to broaden their selection a bit to lure in new customers. Pay Square Enix to make a damn good exclusive or something. XD
Ps3 is a piece of Shit. 360 and Wii will be the only games systems alive.
360 where to start RROD, paying to play online, microsoft points, shitty headsets, no worthwhile exclusives, avatars, no built in wifi, uses dvds instead of blu-ray, scratches discs, no browser, every 10 year old has one, can't install OS, AA battery controllers without plug in cable, noisy, made by microsoft, douche fanboys, Final Fantasy XIII on 4-Discs, expensive small space hard drives, shitty disc tray, cheap soldering, all of it's 3rd party "exclusive" games having upgraded re-releases on PS3, lack of any innovation, boosted sales numbers from repurchases because of RRODed 360's, dead in japan, lack of SD and memory stick readers, lack of blu-ray player, HD-DVD add-on failure, having to buy exclusives, 1-800-4MYXBOX=FAIL, Halo fags, do I need to go on? By the way typed this on my PS3, I can play games, read SC, watch anime and JAV on the internet, download mp3s, download hentai, porn, anime images. All without even having move or change a disc.
Despite all that the console is still selling more than others. But Nintento probably ain't making much money out of it because people don't have much games to buy or they are casual gamers and don't buy many games because they don't play that much.
You know, when you sold that many consoles already, you should expected that your sale number will drop after a while =/
I think now only the dogs in Japan don't have the Wii yet.
Heh it's just the Japanese way to doom and gloom. I recall the top exec of Sony (games division) said they should just sell out to nintendo.
Anyway Nintendo knew what the system was and what it would do. It has done it. Nintendo has made a gajillion dollars, game companies are taking them more seriously now and they have a HD version of the Wii coming out in 2011.
Ya they are fine.
Agreed. Don't know why they're complaining.
I had plenty of fun with Muramasa and have high hopes for Metroid Other M but really the system hasn't had much going for it for a while now. I think they would have been better served by not intentionally making Brawl less competition friendly. It really gave the system a feel of something that is exclusively for non competitive gamers from the viewpoint of third party devs.
muramasa is a pretty good game for the wii but you know that in their minds vanillaware is saying "man...maybe we should have just made it for the ps2...". the game didn't use any of the wii motion controls and would probably would have sold better on the ps2 aswell. hope vanillaware make some games for the ps3 tho.
Odin Sphere was slow and laggy though. Could the PS2 have handled the fast pace of Muramasa?
nope but the 360 and the PS3 could :P
Wii games for the JRPG player?
Gimme the following soon:
Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon
Arc Rise Fantasia
Tales of Graces
Their localizations won't come until next year. I hope to receive a Wii as a Christmas present since I don't want to pay any more than 99 bucks for it, although I'll most likely receive 3 ipods instead (Lol how come everyone gives ipods as presents nowadays)
who the fuck wants to play a jrpg on a waggle wii mote with shitty dated SD graphics
put that shit on the ps3/360 ffs
And I used to complain about getting clothings as gifts but alas you get ipodS. How the world changes..
1. Get iPods for Christmas
2. Take iPods to resale store
3. Exchange iPods for Wii
4. Play Wii for two weeks, let it sit for a year, then trade it in towards the cost of a real console
5. ????
6. Anti-profit!
Doesn't surprise me. Not only was the stupid console impossible to find when it first came out (heck, even YEARS after being out), but most people are trying to save money right now. Telling them to go out and buy any game system isn't going to go well, let alone a game system with hardly any games.
You do know it was hard to find because they would be sold out as soon as they were stocked, right? Meaning that it's not exactly a negative.
just do homebrew and its all right
My Wii is well-used. In my household, the PS3 has more dust (probably because it's got more surface area) oddly enough.
The Wii certainly has fun games, but it's really a shame that Nintendo has to be the one to put out stellar games for it and the 3rd party companies for the most part do inferior copies of other games (note: I'm aware many 3rd parties do real games for the Wii, but if you take a look at the Wii section, you're going to see those gems hidden by dozens of Wii Sports/Wii Fit clones).
Sometimes, you really have to dig for some of the awesome 3rd party Wii games. But it really doesn't help when some people just totally dismiss the games without having ever played them.
Oh well, that doesn't stop my enjoyment and I'll still continue buying Wii exclusives as I see fit. I'm an equal opportunity gamer and I just love what's fun whether it's waving my arms wildly or being slouched over with a controller in my hand.
The only reason why there are not many really good third party games is because they don't want to deal with the completely different format that is the Wii. So they stick with the PS3 and the XBOX360 which are at least similar enough in format.
At least Nintendo isn't in denial like Microsoft with the 360 losing to the PS3.
It's good that Nintendo is at least honest about their faults...but they still won't stop releasing the same systems over and over again with LITTLE things added to them...*coughDSiLLcough*
Best Things about Wii: SB Brawl, Metroid, Zelda, Download "yesterdays" games
Worst: Gimmick games. No, I don't wanna spend $60 to cook with Mama again.
Wii should come out with a game of a person who is trying to play a Wii for the 1s time who has never seen a game machine. It would progress as 'he' got better. . . .... .
it had great games for all the first year then nothing.
And to think Nintendo was the one who single handedly ressurrected the video game industry from failure.
Please tell me you're not referring to the Wii. Rather they've doomed the console generation with Avatars and Miis not to mention pointless peripherals such as the PS3 Wand and the 360 Natal.
Comments like these make me feel old.
No, historically he's right. Not about the Wii, but rather with the original NES. Video games really were on their way to becoming "a passing fad" before the NES made it relatively affordable to have a bunch of decent-quality games (for the time period).
That's fine if you're talking about the NES and SNES but I would argue rather strongly against the Wii though.
He wasn't talking about the Wii.
They were good to excellent quality games as far as standards went back then. Even now, I still play things like Megaman 2 and Mario games on VC.
YOU CASUALFAGS SURE GOT TOLD.
Wii
pros
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Wii-tan
Wiimote used as a vibrator toy
Exercise
cons
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everything else
I see no problem with the wii game library at all.
I still have Metroid Prime Trilogy, Rune Factory, Muramasa, Dead Space, Guitar Hero 5 left to play.
Even with that many games bought but not yet play i still have NSMB Wii, Mario Galaxy 2, Other M, Zelda and Red Steel 2 to buy when they release.
There is only a lack of FPS games.
the wii has like 3 pretty decent FPS games they're just considered "generic"
I owned a Wii but it ended up just sitting there never being used because there were so few good games for it. I ended up trading it in and getting myself a 360.
Now that is a bad choice.
Yeah, what a bad choice, buying the most popular console with the largest games library. What an idiot am i rite!
DERP DERP 360 SUCKS LOL. Dickhead.
YOU'RE PRACTICALLY SPOONFEEDING IT.
I think it might be time for Nintendo to drop their family-friendly image and get some M-rated games on the Wii. I mean, can you imagine GTA on it? Beating up hookers is now an excuse to exercise!
Those things have a ton of potential... the Wiimotes, not the hookers... err okay okay, hookers have potential too.
Those things have a ton of potential... the Wiimotes, not the hookers... err okay okay, hookers have potential too.
That already happened in the wii version of the godfather game. It was really a great port using the wiimotes to punch, shoot, strangle and all those fun things
This would probably be the only incentive for me to ever buy a Wii.
while there might need to be more mature wii games, there already are some. It would be interesting to see how GTA would be done on the wii.
dude... ps3 has the magic sticks now...
But not in the way otaku would love it...
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Another reason why people won't buy Nintendo Wii is because its a Pleasure toy for Women.
"But not in the way otaku would love it...
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Source for pic please
Yeah, but look who is the one who can do it. Besides, why do you think he's playing with that game instead of with his girlfriend?
I do admit the "turn the Wii off" part is too much, though (I'd definitely get mad if somebody did that to me while I was heavily involved in a game...Sonic Adventure 2 Battle comes to mind >_< ), but reasoning probably won't get her anywhere if the game really is that fun XD .
If she really wants some action from him, she should just get up, turn the Wii off, and push the guy onto the bed and tackle him.
Seriously, that otaku is not the only one at fault.
must be a great game to ignore whats behind him...and in that position too~
You never interrupt a gamer while he's playing especially with the loss of data unless you want to be slapped.
Nintendo isn't as family friendly as they once were. They've got games like No More Heroes and Mad World. And also, there is a GTA for the DS.
Wow, 3 games.
Wii sucks, i don't know why it lasted so long
The wii lasted so long because it's a 'family' console and it was cheaper than any of the other 'new' consoles at the time. As opposed to the majority of games on the xbox or 360 the wii has tons of games for the kiddies where parents don't have to feel like they need to monitor their play too much. It is targeted to a much different gamer market than the other consoles.
For me, after I hacked my wii, it became far more useful as an internet terminal and dvd player among other things. So it gets more use than my xbox and ps3.
To prove that your comment is false.
subjective comment is subjective
OBJECTION! That was a contradiction!
Still sucks.
I'd never seen those Wii-tan before, but wow. They're so cute! Great design.
Well, the Wii is not really good for sophisticated games. It probably won't be long till we see a new system from Nintendo...