Wii hits 7 million sales in Japan

Not really. The sales of two gamecubes duct-taped together will probably end up being the sales of the gamecube twice over.

/did i just blow your mind or WHAT

It's mathemagical!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsBJqFeJstg

It would be cool if Capcom would do a Devil May Cry just for Wii, or if Kojima-san would get on the ball and do a MGS for Wii. I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell they will, but it would be neat if they did.

I think 3rd parties have to take a different approach in the way they develop and even how they market their Wii titles. Someone needs to put out some good wares for this poor system; I've been playing the crap out of my 360 and PS3 while my Wii sits wimpering in the corner (Mario Galaxy was wonderful, however).

Part of it could be that Nintendo seems to be secretive when it comes to sharing info with 3rd parties. Many 3rd party developers found out about Wii Motion Plus during the same press conference that the public watched. If you don't share your toys with 3rd party developers, how can the developers support you?

Yeah, the problem is, while there are a shitload of 3rd Party Wii titles, there's a dearth of ones that are actually worth buying or playing.

It looks like Sega's onto something with MadWorld, and The Conduit looks great as well. The publishers need to promote the hell out of these titles; it's beyond me why many unique games such as these release with little or no fanfare. They need to set aside enough cash to promote these games sufficiently; as the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money.

With Sega, you can at least know that they'll promote the Hell out of their games. It's very rare that they don't run a strong ad campaign, even though it's never a guarantee of success (NiGHTS and Valkyria Chronicles say hi!).
I hope The Conduit and MadWorld sell great, though. Lord knows that High Voltage has worked hard enough on their game and the Platinum/Clover guys deserve a huge hit.

Japanese 3rd parties have been warming around, just not with the core franchises that are also big in the west

e.g, you see Monster Hunter 3 on Wii, but Soul Calibur 4 and Resident Evil 5 on PS360

SEGA, of course, has been providing the best 3rd party support, while you're seeing a lot of interesting stuff come across from Bandai-Namco, and smaller guys like Atlus and Marvelous Interactive

Nothing a little spray paint wont fix.

Suuuuuure, I think my wife will be fine with that...


lol

Your right, white hides dust better anyways.

My PS3 claims otherwise.

I had to disconnect my Wii to move it back home for my brief Thanksgiving repose, and it was mighty dusty

:P

Nintendo purposefully limits supply. You think after this long they're physically incapable of producing enough Wiis? (a console which has sold at a profit from day one unlike the other two)

@Haggard from the way Nintendo makes it sound you would think they'd have sold more then 7 million units in Japan alone. Though you are most likely right that Nintendo keeps the supply limited to keep the price up.

21 million in Japan would mean 1 in 6 of the whole population had one

Might be true for the DS, but consoles in general have steadily been falling out of favor in Japan.

@Haggard:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/BPMdotEXE/Macros/NTSA.jpg

Do you honestly believe that Nintendo is withholding stock, or are you just being a troll?

Wii has passed both other current-gen consoles in all regions by leaps and bounds. Hell, it's even passing up PS2 where it was in this point of life.

To sell that much, and you still think they're withholding stock?

@bpm: lol, very appropriate image.

as for Wii sales, great, now (like everyone else) I just hope there are more good game releases for it next year... I'm still playing mario kart (and tetris online) but another top-quality game or two wouldn't hurt.

It will also be interesting to see if sales begin to drop off; otherwise, next year Wii may overtake PS3/60. Right now PS3/60 still has a larger userbase (although not by much) so it's not surprising developers still prefer to make most games for that platform rather than Wii. There's also demographic issues (Wii presumably has more kids than the other platforms, meaning that 'mature' games may be less attractive). However, the scarcity of quality Wii games does mean that a top quality Wii-exclusive entry in a major franchise (GTA, etc) should sell pretty well - as well as giving somewhat of a chance to newcomers like The Conduit, I hope.

(I don't think anyone should be too unrealistic about sales for that and Mad World, though... even if the games are fantastic, will they outsell e.g. either of the two Resident Evil games? I doubt it, but let's see.)