Wii expected to slip in 2010
Stop me if you've heard this one: despite its iron-clad grip on the sales charts, the Wii is headed for heartbreak. Sony and Microsoft are catching up. Nintendo's day of reckoning is right around the corner, just over the horizon, a few months away.
This, dear gamers, will be the year the Wii falls.
The Wii begins its slide to third.
Of course, industry pundits have been making that bold prediction pretty much every year since the Wii shipped in November of 2006, but it's yet to come to pass. Despite a couple of minor stumbles last year, the Wii reasserted itself as the king of the consoles with a record-setting December leading to another solid month atop charts in January.
So why will 2010 be the year the Wii starts to sink? Because for the first time ever, Nintendo has admitted as much.
During an interview at a recent media summit, Nintendo executive VP Cammie Dunaway told Wired that going into the Wii's fifth year, Nintendo is probably not going to sell as many units next year as we sold this year. She goes on to explain the expected slump to be little more than the course of a cyclical business.
A sales dip is hardly shocking: considering they've sold nearly 70 million Wii's worldwide, they're quite literally running out of consumers. They're bound to slow down sooner or later. But Dunaway told Gamespot that Nintendo isn't planning on unveiling a Wii 2 any time soon, fueling the belief that the company is going on continue riding this horse until it stops paying off.
Full story: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/wii-expected-to-slip-in-2010/1391452
Stop me if you've heard this one: despite its iron-clad grip on the sales charts, the Wii is headed for heartbreak. Sony and Microsoft are catching up. Nintendo's day of reckoning is right around the corner, just over the horizon, a few months away.
This, dear gamers, will be the year the Wii falls.
The Wii begins its slide to third.
Of course, industry pundits have been making that bold prediction pretty much every year since the Wii shipped in November of 2006, but it's yet to come to pass. Despite a couple of minor stumbles last year, the Wii reasserted itself as the king of the consoles with a record-setting December leading to another solid month atop charts in January.
So why will 2010 be the year the Wii starts to sink? Because for the first time ever, Nintendo has admitted as much.
During an interview at a recent media summit, Nintendo executive VP Cammie Dunaway told Wired that going into the Wii's fifth year, Nintendo is probably not going to sell as many units next year as we sold this year. She goes on to explain the expected slump to be little more than the course of a cyclical business.
A sales dip is hardly shocking: considering they've sold nearly 70 million Wii's worldwide, they're quite literally running out of consumers. They're bound to slow down sooner or later. But Dunaway told Gamespot that Nintendo isn't planning on unveiling a Wii 2 any time soon, fueling the belief that the company is going on continue riding this horse until it stops paying off.
Full story: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/wii-expected-to-slip-in-2010/1391452
