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- KnockoutNerd, on 02/15/2008, -3/+55I played my gamecube a hell of a lot more then I play my wii. The gamecube was a great system with great games and should have sold more then 21 million.
- Lutremi, on 02/15/2008, -13/+39Yeah, well the PS3 is on pace to shatter the 3DO's sales.
- HarryEast, on 02/15/2008, -4/+29Amazing, Wii sales just continue to impress. Well done Nintendo...
- Adam420, on 02/15/2008, -1/+25cant wait till mario kart wii comes out...
- requiem3, on 02/15/2008, -5/+24Imagine how much higher the sales would be if normal people could actually find a Wii in stock...
- SDavees, on 02/15/2008, -8/+26Xbox is next!
- Trindle, on 02/15/2008, -1/+18I really enjoyed my cube. It definitely had its time and place. In terms of quality games I think that it had more than the xbox. It's kinda sad that it never got the support it deserved. I'm glad Nintendo is cleaning up this round, they are one of the few companies left that actually seems consumer oriented.
- skywake, on 02/15/2008, -1/+18Having items in stock constantly would kill the impulse buy.... yeah, that clearly makes sense because obviously few people have time to think about their purchase because thinking about buying an item like the Wii only occurs when the thing is in stock. If people walked in saying "hmm, what's this Wii thing?" and walked out with a Wii THEN it would be an impulse buy. If people are waiting and asking store staff if they have any in stock it is not an impulse buy.
- MattEaston, on 02/15/2008, -5/+19Amazing sales for Nintendo, imagine if they can pass Gamecube, N64, PSP, Genesis and SNES LTD sales all in 2008!
- doshindude, on 02/15/2008, -3/+16Your rant is an epic fail.
buy Brawl. buy Zelda. buy Elebits. buy GH3. buy Zack&Wiki, buy SPM, buy MP3, buy Galaxy.
You obviously have no games for your Wil. Sure, anyone can criticize it if you're just staying on the home screen all the time. - thebellmaster1x, on 02/15/2008, -2/+15Protip: BUY SOME GAMES FOR IT.
- TehProphet, on 02/15/2008, -0/+12I remember iwata mentioning if the wii can't sell more than the gamecube then it is a failure. Guess that's not going to happen :) great to see Nintendo so strong again, and brawl is less than a month away :D
- salinemist, on 02/15/2008, -2/+12Uh, get off your ass?
- MikeWanDo, on 02/15/2008, -1/+11Can't wait till brawl comes out in the states.
- AmazingAndrex, on 02/15/2008, -1/+10Animal Crossing, please come out this year.
- ButchersBoy, on 02/15/2008, -1/+10The grapgics on SMG are awesome. Now I have a 360, and HDTV, so I am in position to make the comparison. Admittedly most Wii games look a but ropey, but with a bit of artistic effort it can produce some nice goods. Save CoD4 for my 360, and lets get the original artistic styles flowing on the Wii.
- bigdsinferno, on 02/15/2008, -1/+10Obviously, someone ends up buying them, as they are still scarce.
- zeebo, on 02/15/2008, -0/+9The NES had no serious competition, it basically was the console industry in the 80s. The SNES faced strong competition from the genesis, from Nintendo's own Gameboy and the top-loader NES (which it was still in production), and later from the early CD based systems and high-end systemd like the NEO GEO.
- felman87, on 02/15/2008, -1/+10they sold 10 mil faster than the 360.
- zeebo, on 02/15/2008, -1/+10Nintendo had the money to produce a more powerful console. They made a business decision not to. Had they gone with 'next-gen' hardware they would have been releasing a $450 system with little to differentiate itself from the competition except power, and since the 360 and PS3 were both loss leaders at launch, beating them in hardware specs would have been impossible for a competitively priced system. There was a faction inside Nintendo who were opposed to releasing a new console at all faced with that situation. So they reached a compromise, the Wii's small form factor, and continued use of the gamecube platform were intended to lower r&d costs to make the console as inexpensive for the company as possible, while simultaneously continuing to develop what they intend to be their next-generation handheld platform. If the Wii succeeded good, if it failed they wouldn't have bet the company on it the way Sega did with the Dreamcast.
- inspiredbyu, on 02/15/2008, -11/+20Of course Wii passes the GC so quickly. Duct tape increased its air velocity /sarcasm
- KingGoonie, on 02/15/2008, -4/+12Almost definite will pass the N64 and Genesis, both of which I believe sold about 29 million overall... PSP definitely as well as it sold no more then 25 million so far I think...
But SNES? 2008? I doubt it. SNES sold rougly 49 million units... so for it to beat SNES LTD by the end of this year it has to sell like 28 more million systems in 10 and a half months. I don't know if even the most successful console can do that. - zeebo, on 02/15/2008, -0/+8In five years Nintendo's next console will be out. In ten years they'll have had yet another generation of systems on the market. The Wii's hardware isn't so weak that it couldn't push high-definition resolutions, but they made a design decision that they'd rather have 850x480@60, than 1280x720@30.
- paradigm1220, on 02/15/2008, -2/+10You ain't seen nothin' yet! Wait til Brawl hits the shelves.
- fognozzle, on 02/15/2008, -1/+9What are you talking about? Maybe the XBox had a slight edge on the GC, but it wasn't by much. Rogue Squadron was a launch game that looked better than most XBox games. Resident Evil 4 and Metroid Prime looked fantastic on the console as well.
- braineater2448, on 02/15/2008, -0/+7Most every sunday, the stores get shipments. Call around. They will tell you. Arrive early and Bam. Got yourself a Wii.
- harryhill, on 02/15/2008, -0/+7N64 did 33 million, says in that article.
- XBSHX, on 02/15/2008, -2/+9Did the SNES really sell less than the NES?
- Sutarion, on 02/15/2008, -2/+8Sounds as though your nephew just has taste. I don't think his age is relevant in that regard.
- dinostabOMG, on 02/15/2008, -0/+6Fine, but when will I be able to walk into a gamestop and just pick one up?
- theragu40, on 02/15/2008, -0/+6I agree to an extent...but at least as far as third party exclusives go, they seem to be kind of a dying breed. When most huge third party blockbusters are cross-platform anyway, the quality of first party (and thus exclusive) titles could get more and more important.
- iofthestorm, on 02/15/2008, -1/+6It might be a worse system right now, but it has a lot of potential (just not in the US where 360 already has a strong foothold) and calling its users idiots is not going to help your argument.
- BaconXBits, on 02/15/2008, -1/+6If Nintendo could meet production demand, Wii sales would skyrocket.
...More so. - smackafiyah, on 02/15/2008, -0/+5It's actually rated T, hardly a childrens game
- fyreboltx, on 02/15/2008, -3/+8I wish Wiis would stop selling so damn much... come on people, buy the 360 and PS3!
Maybe then, I'll actually be able to see a Wii in a store for once. - Cwo655321, on 02/15/2008, -1/+5every country is guaranteed 4 consoles.
- smergs, on 02/15/2008, -0/+4"The NES had no serious competition, it basically was the console industry in the 80s."
I remember the days when playing video games was "Playing Nintendo." Even if you were going to play a game on a sega genesis a lot of people would call that Nintendo. I'm sure it had something to do with people not knowing anything about the young video game business at the time, but it did stick around for a while. I loved my older brothers NES and my SNES. I wish I had never sold my SNES. I still have the NES though. - Topher06, on 02/15/2008, -9/+13Actually, for all you PS3 naysers:
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/02/14/npd-ps3-nearly ...
PS3 sold just 5000 less then Wii and outsold Xbox360 last month. Don't count PS3 out of the race just yet. And they sold 10 milion units already which is on par with Xbox360 sales in its first year. - bthug7, on 02/15/2008, -1/+5I've had an 360 from launch and love it. But... I just got a Wii and can understand why the sales numbers are so high. There is just something about it that is almost nostalgic, I never did gamecube but had an NES, SNES, and N64. Those were the good old days and Wii brought me back. The system just spreads happiness that is unlike anything I can receive from my Xbox360.
I wonder how big of a factor nintendo's underproduction is on the sales? It seems they're scheme is working. - inactive, on 02/15/2008, -6/+10Go Wii! Well done Nintendo!
- paradigm1220, on 02/15/2008, -0/+4It was also January.
- iofthestorm, on 02/15/2008, -0/+4Well, if you factor in secondary sales that would be counting Wiis multiple times, so that doesn't make any sense.
- iofthestorm, on 02/15/2008, -1/+5XBox and N64 probably, NES maybe, but SNES? Do you realize that SNES is like THE greatest system of all time? Unless Nintendo can double its manufacturing capacity it's not going to get within throwing distance of the SNES.
Edit: The article says NES had more sales than SNES, but I find that hard to believe. Even so, I don't think Wii will catch up to SNES. - 1807, on 02/15/2008, -0/+3I got mine off of a desperate Craigslister for $190 who needed money fast and sold me a wii, 3 nunchucks, 2 wiimotes and one copy of Wii Sports. I wasn't even really interested in getting a Wiii, but I saw the pirce and decided I'd be a dumbass to pass it up. I called him 45 min after he put up the ad, but he said he got like 4 calls within the first night. I would suggest Craigslist. by the way, who KNOWS how many Wii's have been sold if you factor in secondary sales. I'd bet it's a lot more than they've calculated so far.
- MasterPlayer, on 02/15/2008, -1/+4We all know the Wii is selling well, I just wonder if this will last and beat the PS1 and PS2. The Wii probably has the best first party titles out of all of the consoles, but their 3rd party support is the worst, and the only way it will be truly successful is if it has quality 3rd party games to back it up.
- Xenufield, on 02/16/2008, -0/+3The Wii has more graphic capabilities than the PS2, and not everyone is an idiot that needs shiny graphics to enjoy games.
And I say this, having just finished playing Xenogears. - BlueSkyfish, on 02/15/2008, -1/+4Graphically, there wasn't much difference between Xbox and Gamecube. Xbox had more texture memory, Gamecube has more processing power. They were both miles ahead of the PS2 anyway. If you look at sales, Xbox only beat Gamecube by about 2 million.
And in case you're thinking about picking up some games, my all time favorites are:
Super Smash Bros Melee
Resident Evil 4
Tales of Symphonia
Baten Kaitos
F-Zero GX
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Battalion Wars
Ikaruga
Soul Calibur 2
Pikmin (one and two)
Animal Crossing
Viewtiful Joe
Eternal Darkness
Beyond Good and Evil
Some of these are cross platform, but I included them because they're best on the Gamecube. - macdaddydwj, on 02/15/2008, -2/+5If they just put GoldenEye on the the VC, I'd be happy.
- zeebo, on 02/15/2008, -0/+3One reason the Wii is selling so well is that gamers who didn't have a Gamecube are picking it up in part because of the backwards compatibility. The Wii is selling more systems though because of one thing that the Wii has that the Gamecube didn't, mainstream appeal.
- schoate09, on 02/15/2008, -3/+6And that's just in America, where it does the poorest. It's outpacing the 360 by a substantial margin worldwide.
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