A simple blueprint for success
There's no denying the numbers. Despite impressive holiday sales from Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo's Wii won 2008 sales and continues to outsell the competition. Now that 2008 is behind us, 2009 holds endless possibilities. If Nintendo wants to win again there are several things it must do. Here's our suggestions for how to make 2009 a smashing success.






Reader Comments (73)
Alright, was is it with bashing Nintendo? I'm a bit ill due to the fact that more gamers have been defensive about their gaming sytems as of late. A console should be defined by how succesful it was in delivering the best playability, not sales or graphics. Although most high-budget games do spend a lot of time on graphics, they sometimes don't stack up to how well other games with, let's say, last-gen graphics. Don't get me wrong however as sprucing up a game takes a lot of work, I should know. But i*****ame is nowadays defined by how clear you can see a bead of sweat on a monster-shooting grizzled space marine's brow, and how many different ways you can incapacitate said monsters with weapons, then count me out.
LOL! I showed my friend this article and he said "who needs 3 year old games. No wonder people hate this brand new thing"... I laughed because, if I'm correct, nintendo has been around since the mid 1900's. At least 60 years.. That just made me laugh. I hate how people say that Nintendo sucks because they don't have a lot of super-violent, mindless killing games.
The problem is with nintendo in general is that they have been recycling their games since conception of them. Now the problem is that they have realized they can make games with old graphics and instead of a new game have recreated old ones with the wii mote. And the only new games they have designed aren't for gamers they are for gramma who wants to bowl. I'm a Ps3 player and i have no beef with the 360 but the wii is wiik when it comes to graphics and Wii will always have more rpgs huh? if you check gamestore website that categorize like gamestop.com youll see that wii has 7 rpgs ps3 has 8 and 360 with around 13 titles.
I am not going to whine about nintendo because they are awesome but just cause Nintendo is leading in sales does not mean that they are the best company. I am VERY disappointed by nintendo. The Wii has several problems. It's only winning out cause its very good at targeting children and people who dont play games and not gamers. Wii has no decent online play at all. It does not support High definition tv or HDR lighting. To make matters worse nintendo brings nothing new to the table. Its just the same old mario, mario in sports games, and the same old other plots. They need to bring some new characters and stories. Maybe the plots worked in the 80's and 90's but now they are so boring and repetetive. Nintendo has a total lack of games that I want to play because of the stupid wiimote controller. Xbox 360 has very good online play, new games, a good controller, and supports high end games. I want new games and story lines with good graphics not a tacky half ass attempt at getting gamers to do things with a stupid remote on outdated graphics. I'm sorry Nintendo can you please do better next time?
1. Mario has already been made more diverse. Asking to branch him out into even more genres is a terrible idea. How about a Mario Galaxy 2 instead? Bring back more of what he was originally known for, and is still the best at: platforming! 2. Ocarina of Time was overrated. Windwaker and Twilight Princess were far superior.
i find it funny how all the hardcore gamers only want shooting games (resistance, gears of war, left 4 dead) ppl have forgotten that the Wii is made by nintendo, and nintendo tends to favor japanese games more than games made by american companies (resistance, gears of war, left 4 dead) so the Wii is always going to have more rpg and party games and to the retard who said the Wii needs more games like resident evil, street fighter, gears of war ect Resident Evil is a Wii game, Street Fighter is a Wii game, CODWAW is a Wii game... there's lots of hardcore gamer games on the Wii, it's just people tend to overlook them after the vast amounts of E rated (but very good) games a game doesnt have to me rated M to be a good game
**** all of you ****in wii ****in hater ******* *****es. GO **** YOURSELF
I own a ps3 and a wii, and have played on my friends' 360s, and the wii blows ass. only a minority of the games are good, and there isnt enough multimedia support. the wii cant satisfy hardcore gamers like the 360 can, and it cant satisfy media junkies like the ps3 can
haha yeah they REALLY need to make a mmo pokemon rpg BAD. itd be pretty BAMF
I have a Wii I want to see more classic games from other gaming systems like Atari. I like the Atari games.