Wii Ships 50 Million Units, Declared Fastest Selling Console Ever

too bad everyone stops playing it after a month, and there are only a half-dozen or so quality titles on it.

I bought the GC even though I expected it to have a small library. I knew that the few games I'd get for it would be AAA and make the purchase worthwhile. With the Wii I could never justify buying essentially another GC only with a different controller. It's good to see Nintendo succeeding but they're almost completely off my radar when it comes to videogame purchases.

The thing about the Wii selling all those units... it wasn't really part of Nintendo's plan.

If it sold as well as the GC no one would be complaining because there wouldn't be all of those shitty games out for it.

What I'm saying is there are the same number of high quality titles this generation as there were for the last gen, it's just that 3rd party developers are doing their best to cash in on Nintendo's surprise success by filling the huge void where more quality games would be if Nintendo had more people available to work on new games.

The problem is that they are staying small scale in their game development when they should be expanding astronomically to grab more software sales market share, which is what's keeping them from having a higher % of "good" games on the market for the Wii.

Having 3 or 4 good titles a year was no big deal when they only sold a couple million consoles per year. When you sell around a million units per month, you're going to have a higher number of people that don't quite get how small Nintendo's market share was at launch and how unprepared they were to sate the consumer's hunger for it's unique gaming system.

(The GC sold about 22 million units overall, the Wii has sold about 22 million units PER YEAR so far...)

i don't need all my fingers on one hand to count the number of titles that i've found enjoyable on the system.

they're successfull at selling the consoles, great, now how about trying to carry that over to some games.

interactive entertainment gone mainstream? The horror!

Well first of I have to say congrats, you cannot hate any type of success well done.

But as for my personal opinion Nintendo has become a bad gaming anomaly let’s hope no one follows there new approach.

Looks like the PS3 and 360 will get there gimmick and but will be played with Hig Def graphics, Physx, and HD sound.

http://gear.ign.com/articles/965/965841p1.html

Truth be told I personally don’t really care anymore about Nintendo and I will no longer be waiting for the next Mario, Zelda, or Metriod. There are just so many better options on the 360, ps3 and PC now. I mean I just recently purchased Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty for $9.99 and it is by far the best platformer I have played, from the graphics, story, sound, gameplay, weapon upgrades, gadgets and seamless world, it blows away Mario ten fold. And the same can be said for the rest of their old franchises, to me Nintendo RIP, I will never forget the SNES days that is the Nintendo I will remember.

Congrats to Nintendo. It is a good system and they really have etched out their own unique niche for this generation. No doubt the Wii is wildly successful, leaving the 360 and PS3 to fight over the same customer base.

since 200? damn i always knew the wii wasn't from this earth!