Why Nintendo Should Have Supported the Wii for Longer

8th April, 1 replies

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Nintendo took the gaming world by storm in 2006 with their seventh-generation home console, the Wii. The system’s intuitive motion controllers, spearheaded by the bundled killer app Wii Sports, capitalized on the potential mass-market appeal of gaming and proved to be lightning in a bottle for the company. The Wii remained difficult to find on store shelves well over a year after its extraordinary launch and was nearly impossible to find during the first two holidays.

Many would say that the Wii was hastily abandoned due to Nintendo choosing to chase the prospect of third party support for its successor, the Wii U – a prospect that, clearly, did not go as planned. Others would proclaim that the draw of motion controls was short lived and that much of that audience had moved on.

In any case, Nintendo shipped a respectable 15 million Wii consoles in 2010 - four years after its launch - falling right in between Sony and Microsoft’s shipments for their respective consoles that year. The highly acclaimed Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Donkey Kong Country Returns were released this same year by Nintendo, and other games from the publisher, including Sin & Punishment, Kirby’s Epic Yarn and Metroid: Other M, kept Wii owners fairly busy (along with Xenoblade Chronicles in Japan), not to mention third-party titles such as GoldenEye, No More Heroes 2, Just Dance 2, and Epic Mickey...

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