19 replies to this topic

[MrIceCreamCow]

Honestly, it's pointless to buy a wii now. I understand that people don't have enough money to buy a wii u, but why can't they just save up for a wii u?

[nintendo3DS]

Based on the fact that Ninty sold 300,000 Wiis on the week of Black Friday, I would say so.

[Mitch]

Honestly, it's pointless to buy a wii now. I understand that people don't have enough money to buy a wii u, but why can't they just save up for a wii u?

But they arent buying a Wii...... they're buying a $150 Netflix box

[Blake]

There will be plenty more Wii sales, considering how cheap it is.

[Tricky Sonic]

Yeah, after the ps3 came out, the ps2 sold like hotcakes for quite a bit after.

[DeviousOne]

ps2 is still selling

[xile6]

I know someone that is buying there kids a wii for christmas. Ask them why they dont just get the wii u and they said because of cost.
which makes sense.
A wii is around $100 new plus game $40
While a wii u is $250 plus wii mote nunchunck combo $40 plus game $40

So its better to get a wii if your low on cash.
same reason alot of people pick up an xbox 360 and not a ps3 its all about cost.
Nintendo did a go job with the will its @ a great price for next gen. Once the x720 and ps4 are out i bet more wii u will sell. Simply due to the other systems being to high for most to buy.

[SilverzGrim]

Yeah, will sell as long as they are available.

[ChrisD]

Honestly, it's pointless to buy a wii now. I understand that people don't have enough money to buy a wii u, but why can't they just save up for a wii u?

Why are you asking this question? You said yourself that you understand why it still sells. The Wii is cheap - very cheap. On top of this, there is quite the library for it. Off the top of my head,

Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Twilight Princess
Skyward Sword
Xenoblade Chronicles
The Last Story
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Metroid Prime 3/Trilogy
(Would say Monster Hunter Tri, but I've heard that servers may be shut down next year)

And all of them are exclusive to the Wii; Wii U disregarded as it is not cheap. As stated however, those titles are just off the top of my head and there are even more worth picking up.

Then there's just the fact that some people may not want to maintain and keep up with the Gamepad. Maybe none of the games interest them and they just want access to the Wii's catalog. It's also entirely possible that they are parents buying kids their first console. (Would you want to spend $250 more on something for a child?) There's an entire list of reasons ranging from good, bad, to flat out silly. But they are all good reasons in the mind of whoever is buying the Wii instead of the Wii U. As long as they're not just confused, then uh... Well then there's no reason other than bad marketing.

Based on the fact that Ninty sold 300,000 Wiis on the week of Black Friday, I would say so.

I saw four people buying Wiis on Black Friday. The funny part? They all left behind the poor Deluxe Wii U sitting right beside them.

But they arent buying a Wii...... they're buying a $150 Netflix box

Clever and definitely got a chuckle out of me, but completely untrue (and probably a joke).

Yeah, after the ps3 came out, the ps2 sold like hotcakes for quite a bit after.

ps2 is still selling

This amazes me to this day. It really shows just how important software really is in the long run, as the PS2 has no other features to make it worth buying.

[Mitch]

Clever and definitely got a chuckle out of me, but completely untrue (and probably a joke).

Mission accomplished as long as I scored a chuckle

[DeviousOne]

This amazes me to this day. It really shows just how important software really is in the long run, as the PS2 has no other features to make it worth buying.

Yes it does its a DVD player....I CHEAP dvd player is a LARGE libary of games as well that rivals the SNES..Other parts of the world are just now getting DVD's and PS2's

[Tricky Sonic]

Yes it does its a DVD player....I CHEAP dvd player is a LARGE libary of games as well that rivals the SNES..Other parts of the world are just now getting DVD's and PS2's

A lot of people (including me) still believe, that if Sony opted to not put in a DVD player , or if Sega opted to put one in the Dreamcast...the PS2 would not of taken off like it did...at least not in Japan. At launch PS2's were only sold in electronic stores and not game stores. For those unfamiliar with how Japanese retailers are - they don't generally have the equivalent of a Walmart or Target, they have game stores..and electronic stores..completely different. Game stores didn't carry the PS2 because they thought it wouldn't sell. It did sell - as a DVD player - the cheapest one in Japan at its launch time.

[Alex Wolfers]

I could see if someone was really poor but otherwise its kind of foolish. They aren't even making wii games anymore I heard.

[crazyman03]

Wii games are still being made. The ones being made though are all very cheap kiddy games that almost no one in the right mind would buy. The only reason people are still buying wii's is because of money or the fact that they are getting bought for little children who don't know the difference between a wii and wii u.

[Goose]

My dentist wanted to buy a Wii for her 3 year old. I told her about the Wii U. SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE!

Also my friend was telling my how stupid he though playing Black Ops with the gamepad was. I showed him a picture of the pro controller and he never heard of it.

[BananaCheese]

I honestly see no point in buying a Wii.

[Coggit]

The original Wii is still good for children and with thousands of games for it, for a child I'm sure it will seem amazing. No point buying a kid a brand new £300 gaming system when a £85 one will more than suffice.

[BobbyRiddle]

Nintendo is loving every minute of it. I read an article yesterday that the joker Michael Pachter wrote about the Wii U. He said that Nintendo had a formal strategy to not advertise the Wii U much through the holidays, and see if the company could hit good numbers anyway before blitzing the public with Wii U ads next year. Well it looks like mission accomplished so far with 1.8 million WiiU's sold globally through 12/15/12(2.1 million Wii's sold in the same time 4 week time period after it's launch with all the incredible hype), and 300k Wii's sold during Black Friday week. Although, unless they hit ridiculous numbers from the 15th-25th I think Nintendo's projections of 5 million by the end of March will be near impossible with hardly any software coming out in the next 3 months.

[Zinix]

The Wii is still outselling the Wii U, so yes.

[bornsupercharged]

[...]He said that Nintendo had a formal strategy to not advertise the Wii U much through the holidays[...]

Yes because not advertising or clarifying WHAT the Wii U is will equate to sales. Epic fail on Nintendo's behalf. You can bet your @$$ that Microsoft will be properly advertising their next generation console.