Who honestly thought the Wii would end up this successful?

I mean in all seriousness I was at odds with Nintendo with the N64 and the same with the Gamecube. When I heard they were coming out with a system that was significantly weaker then the 360/PS3 combined with the motion controller I was like no way this thing is gonna take off.

To me I thought that the Wii would end up even worse off then the Gamecube. I thought that decreasing graphics would further kill 3rd Party Support as games can't be ported to it.

But damn....I was wrong.

No way did I see constant sell outs for a year, surpassing the 360 in a year. Pretty much selling more then the compeittion combined.

Its just insane. Whoever's idea or whoever came up with the concept of the Wii needs to be bowed down to by every Big Wig at Nintendo.

The thing is a monster and it doesn't seem like it can be stopped.

Honestly I'm a big Mario fan and I love the whole Nintendo cast. I also think N64 was the best console to experience and own follow by Super nes but in all honesty I feel the Wii is trash. In the end though I'll still play a Mario game but overall the quality of other thrid partytitles doesnt cut it for me. I hate when people brag about the sales when in reality those numbers are coming from casuals who really doesnt put heavy time into gaming like many of us hardcore games so them numbers mean nay to me unless you can convience me that those numbers are prior to hardcore gamers then I'll take my word back. OoSuperMarioO

I sure as hell didn't. I've owned a NES, SNES, N64, and GameCube. I loved my NES and SNES, but sold my N64 to get a PS1 after seeing a dorm mate playing FFVII. I got the GC because I was always a big ninty fan, but only owned a few games for it. I think the Wii is an awesome console, it's just not my thing. I was in VA several months ago and saw 9 Wii's at Wal-Mart and almost picked one up but couldn't do it. I've played it a lot with my sister in law and had a blast, but the single player exp? Not so much.

Probably no one.

Such a shame I couldn't care less for the thing. Truly. ;(

Edit: Couldn't care less. Damn I hate when I do that online, I need sleep.

[QUOTE="OoSuperMarioO"]Honestly I'm a big Mario fan and I love the whole Nintendo cast. I also think N64 was the best console to experience and own follow by Super nes but in all honesty I feel the Wii is trash. In the end though I'll still play a Mario game but overall the quality of other thrid partytitles doesnt cut it for me. I hate when people brag about the sales when in reality those numbers are coming from casuals who really doesnt put heavy time into gaming like many of us hardcore games so them numbers mean nay to me unless you can convience me that those numbers are prior to hardcore gamers then I'll take my word back. Eddie5vs1

I sure as hell didn't. I've owned a NES, SNES, N64, and GameCube. I loved my NES and SNES, but sold my N64 to get a PS1 after seeing a dorm mate playing FFVII. I got the GC because I was always a big ninty fan, but only owned a few games for it. I think the Wii is an awesome console, it's just not my thing. I was in VA several months ago and saw 9 Wii's at Wal-Mart and almost picked one up but couldn't do it. I've played it a lot with my sister in law and had a blast, but the single player exp? Not so much.

im very surprised aswel. its a great system, but then again so was the GC and look what happened to that. i thought the market would never accept such a big gap in horsepower and only the ninty faithful and those who were curious about it would get it. but the market reaction has been most favourable, alot like the reaction sony got with the PS1.

honestly this gen has been full of surprises imho. the DS giving the PSP a serious pasting, even though the PSP is a portable PS2 (basically). on paper the PSP should have won but it didnt. now the wii, which by all rights should be having serious problems since its so different, is only haviong problems staying on the shelves. meanwhile the PS3 is recieving an almighty hammering and sony have had to take some drastic steps to keep the PS3s head above water.

as far as consoles go, i had an inkling that sony were going to have trouble due to their arrogance and MSs agressive tactics. combine that with the 3 gen leader curse and something was bound to go wrong for sony. i thought ninty were just cutting their losses and were only planning to sell around 20millions wiis though. i was expecting MS to take over. woops, ninty have really come out all guns blazing and their success so far is fully diserved imho. big companies are not supposed to be able to turn themselves around and nintys fate looked inevitable, but they have completly broken that rule. between the wii and DS, i think ninty have made entire industry look like stunned rabbits so far.

however im not writing anyone off yet and im not declaring a victor (i want to see how things look after this christmas). this gen has been so full of surprises that, at this stage, i wouldnt be surprised if Intel released a new console and became the market leader, its just that weird. alot of rules and trends have been broken so far.

as for the handhelds, in terms od sales at least, i think that battle is well and truly over with the DS being the clear winner.

im very surprised aswel. its a great system, but then again so was the GC and look what happened to that. i thought the market would never accept such a big gap in horsepower and only the ninty faithful and those who were curious about it would get it. but the market reaction has been most favourable, alot like the reaction sony got with the PS1.

honestly this gen has been full of surprises imho. the DS giving the PSP a serious pasting, even though the PSP is a portable PS2 (basically). on paper the PSP should have won but it didnt. now the wii, which by all rights should be having serious problems since its so different, is only haviong problems staying on the shelves. meanwhile the PS3 is recieving an almighty hammering and sony have had to take some drastic steps to keep the PS3s head above water.

as far as consoles go, i had an inkling that sony were going to have trouble due to their arrogance and MSs agressive tactics. combine that with the 3 gen leader curse and something was bound to go wrong for sony. i thought ninty were just cutting their losses and were only planning to sell around 20millions wiis though. i was expecting MS to take over. woops, ninty have really come out all guns blazing and their success so far is fully diserved imho. big companies are not supposed to be able to turn themselves around and nintys fate looked inevitable, but they have completly broken that rule. between the wii and DS, i think ninty have made entire industry look like stunned rabbits so far.

however im not writing anyone off yet and im not declaring a victor (i want to see how things look after this christmas). this gen has been so full of surprises that, at this stage, i wouldnt be surprised if Intel released a new console and became the market leader, its just that weird. alot of rules and trends have been broken so far.

as for the handhelds, in terms od sales at least, i think that battle is well and truly over with the DS being the clear winner.

osan0

Completly agreed Blackbond. I originally thought it would be nothing more then a second place contender (sorta like Xbox last gen) but damn I got owned.

Being serious here.......Nintendo probably didn't even know.

Yeah I exspected it to sell out for like 6 months then kinda die out and end up with about 25 million sold total. I picked one up at launch and love it, but it is truely a secondary console.wooooode

Yeah, the Wii seems more like a secondary console, which is perfectly fine. It works out well for me (I am not going to speak for everyone) and Nintendo. I still get my good games (such as Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Zach & Wiki, etc.) and Nintendo gets their money.

Wii wins because it finally makes gaming accessible to the masses - it breaks gaming down into a little routine that more people are comfortable with: Point-and-click. People like that. Point-and-click. Simple. Accessible. Sensible. Intuitive. Genius.

Tunnel Shooters have very limited appeal... Online war-gaming can be offensive - vulgar and crass, quickly becoming repetitive and boring... Dual-analog is too unwieldy for many... Many modern games control schemes are too complicated formany users to grasp... Some people are actually left-handed... Nintendo has compensated for all of these issues.

Really, when you look at it this way, Wii's success is no surprise at all...

I loved the idea of the wiimote the second i saw it and though that it could get a lot of attention. after that e3 reaction I knew it would do well. But even I didn't think it would breaking all the records.Ontain

No one could have predicted this logically. Selling out for over a year straight, despite record breaking shipments? The only people to suggest this would have been raving fanboys.

i thought the wii was going to be dead last. i thought it would have the similar fate as gamecube where it had good exclusive games, but lacked on sales.

after my friends and i bought a ps3 one of them bought a wii. i got hooked on wii sports and the following launch weekend i ended up buying a wii. i got lucky found one in walmart. i was going to buy a wii later on when price was cheaper but wii sports reeled me in.

I was in doubt of the Wii as well around its release too.

But when I got back to school, I noticed alot of PS2/Xbox fanboys who hated Nintendohad bought a Wii and were loving it. From that moment all my doubt was gone and it's really shown.

I thought that the thing's sales would've died down by last July.

I was wrong..very wrong...

I once believed Nintendo saying that it would be easy to get a Wii more than a year ago, but I and Nintendo were wrong. I have to resort to paying over $300 to buy one in April from an eBay seller because I could not find one in the stores where I live. I never thought the demand for the Wii is so high that Nintendo was forced to double production of the console and even the increased shipments could not fulfill the the increasing demand.

If the number of units sold continues to increase at the rate it is now, it may one day outsell the NES and even the PlayStation 2. Will it happen? We do not know.

Yea Gamecube 1.5 in 2010. :?KillaHalo2o9

Oooh.... I hear sobbing.... here's a tissue....

...must hurt that the "Gamecube 1.5" is killing whatever console you are a fanboy of. I'm lucky enough not to be a fanboy as I play my 360, DS, Wii & PC

Yeah, when I saw the promotion videos on GameTrailers, I knew I wanted one. (and I had practically every system up to then except 360, which I want next).

I didn't care if it was going to be big or not: I was prepared for the same amount of success the GC had. i just liked the potential.

I didn't expect the sell out, and truly thought they would be easy to get after Xmas. Wow, was I wrong.

And overall, I love the system. It gets use practically every day.

Before E306: Not sure. I was doubting.

After E306: Wow people love the thing. It's probably gonna sell good enough.

A week after launch: Sold out everywhere. But hey... it's launch so it's normal.

February: Oh **** still sold out. WTF? My cousins and friends still can't find one. lol Probably will calm down next month.

6 millions Wiis sold at April: Console war is already over.

Ever since the NES (with the sole exception of the SNES -- I didn't buy a console that generation for some reason), I've owned every Nintendo console. I owned the 64, the GC, and now of course, the Wii.

I really had mixed feelings when I first got it -- I bought it for the exclusives. It was the only thing that kept me from just buying a 360 instead... but, I'm happy with my purchase for the most part. Wii Sports has been a blast with family that normally despises video games, Galaxy is entrancing, and Metroid Prime 3 is addicting.

But... for some reason, the online play just feels... pretty lacking. I really want a service on par with that of the Xbox Live service -- I would even pay. But Nintendo keeps it up with the awful friend-code system... which I've always hated. It's the one blemish on what I think is an amazing console.

The Ninendo-fanboy in me, despite what I told my friends, doubted completely the future of Nintendo's consoles -- it was looking like the Dreamcast more and more as it came about. And, now, the New York Times has named it the "Must-Have gift of the year"... for the second year in a row.

It's a surprise -- I'll give you that.

[QUOTE="osan0"]

im very surprised aswel. its a great system, but then again so was the GC and look what happened to that. i thought the market would never accept such a big gap in horsepower and only the ninty faithful and those who were curious about it would get it. but the market reaction has been most favourable, alot like the reaction sony got with the PS1.

honestly this gen has been full of surprises imho. the DS giving the PSP a serious pasting, even though the PSP is a portable PS2 (basically). on paper the PSP should have won but it didnt. now the wii, which by all rights should be having serious problems since its so different, is only haviong problems staying on the shelves. meanwhile the PS3 is recieving an almighty hammering and sony have had to take some drastic steps to keep the PS3s head above water.

as far as consoles go, i had an inkling that sony were going to have trouble due to their arrogance and MSs agressive tactics. combine that with the 3 gen leader curse and something was bound to go wrong for sony. i thought ninty were just cutting their losses and were only planning to sell around 20millions wiis though. i was expecting MS to take over. woops, ninty have really come out all guns blazing and their success so far is fully diserved imho. big companies are not supposed to be able to turn themselves around and nintys fate looked inevitable, but they have completly broken that rule. between the wii and DS, i think ninty have made entire industry look like stunned rabbits so far.

however im not writing anyone off yet and im not declaring a victor (i want to see how things look after this christmas). this gen has been so full of surprises that, at this stage, i wouldnt be surprised if Intel released a new console and became the market leader, its just that weird. alot of rules and trends have been broken so far.

as for the handhelds, in terms od sales at least, i think that battle is well and truly over with the DS being the clear winner.

OoSuperMarioO

A year ago, I sure did not see this coming. But my main contention was where Nintendo was back then. Having been reigning champion in the 8bit and 16bit generations, Nintendo fell very very far by the time they got to Gamecube. Last place in market share with the scaresect of 3rd party support last generation. It seemed Nintndo had a really long way to go just to reclaim some of the lustre they had in the eyes of gamers, let alone market position.

But then I see the reaction they're getting at E3 05. Lots of buzz. Lots of excitement from the crowd. OK so I'm thinking they're improving their image, getting the people to like them again. While they'll still be 3rd place this gen, they'll be in a better 3rd place than they were before, with overall more units being sold. That should be a good start for them to keep climbing in the future generations.

E3 06, more of the excitement, people hailing the innovation of a new interface, lots of devs talkinmg about how they want to explore making games with this, HUGE lineups at the booths to get their hands on this. Then of course launch happens and you can't find a unit in any store to save your life. OK, so now I'm thinking they're 3rd place is going to be so close to the 2nd place contender, they'll be rubbing bumpers. hell... mmmmmmmmaybe they'll take 2nd place.

Months go by, and STILL stores are posting signs they have none in stock. This is nuts. The sales numbers keep climbing and climbing with no end in sight to the momentum.

How wrong I was a year ago. And the funny thing is, they STILL don't have the strength of 3rd party support that PS3 and X360 has - no Assassins Creed, GTA IV, VF5, DMC4, COD4, Orange Box, RainbowSix Vegas, GRAW, or Oblivion, to be seen here.... yet STILL outselling both systems with that kind of monster lineup!! Who'd of thunk it??? :o :o

When the Wiimote was shown for the very first time(without nunchuck), i thought someone at Nintendo had gone bonkers. I thought, where's the analogue stick? the shoulder buttons? you hold it with one or two hands? how can you play a 3D game at all with that setup?! At the time, it passed my mind and i thought, whatever. I took a break from gaming - or just playing PC games (mostly online) on my laptop during college and Uni. And in 2006, everything was revealed, i was blown away yet i also felt a little disappointment because of of the graphical prowess but most importantly, the lack of 3rd party games. Something clicked in the grey matter, and i felt i had to play console games again. Now i've built myself a gaming PC, bought a Wii a several months ago and am now enjoying what both have to offer.

I'm very surprised Nintendo has managed to get this far after what happened to the N64 and GC, and further doubts of whether the Wii is going to do well or not has completely vanished.

I knew the Wii was going to sell well, it's just something new and different.

One of my friends asked to whether he should preorder a PS3 or a Wii to sell on Ebay. I said Wii but he got a PS3 and couldn't sell it on Ebay.