Wed, Jun 23, 2010 | 20:07 BST
Wii is “higher in life-to-date sales” than PS3 or 360, says Reggie
Reggie Fils-Aime has defended Wii’s falling sales, after comments suggesting the console may have seen its heyday surfaced last week.
Speaking during an investor’s Q&A, Fils-Aime said that in terms of software sales in the US, Nintendo is at the “high water-mark”.
“From a US perspective, we could have just as easily put [out] a chart that shows life-to-date software sales for the Wii, which are dramatically higher than a similar point in time for the PS2, as well as where we stand versus the other two home consoles, which again is dramatically higher in life-to-date sales so far,” he said.
“Certainly, we are at a high water-mark in the absolute. If you look at the number of million-unit-sellers, it is quite impressive.
“I think the bigger challenge is how we enable our third party developers to have similar performance on the platform, have similar long-tail performance, have similar high absolute levels of sales”.
Namco Bandai VP of sales, Olivier Comte, recently said that the “Wii and DS market had collapsed.”
“As we look at the platform, the Wii business certainly has a tremendous amount of life left,” Fils-Aime added.
“And we will see that with titles like Donkey Kong Country Returns, GoldenEye 007, Disney Epic Mickey, and certainly the new Zelda coming in 2011″.
Nintendo revealed its 3DS handheld at E3 last week, along with a massive list of titles slated for the platform.
Thanks, GamesIndustry.
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Tags: reggie fils-aime, wii sales
16 comments
#1
Isuru86
23/06/10, 7:24 pm
From which Country does Reggie come, he doesnt seem very amercian !
#2
Phoenixblight
23/06/10, 7:28 pm
And Whats American?
#3
Anders
23/06/10, 7:30 pm
@1: Born and raised in the states. Also, what Phoenixblight said.
#4
ivycrew707
23/06/10, 7:34 pm
@1 prolly should edit that one, u’ll have ps3 and xbox fanboys attacking u over a wii guy!
#5
theevilaires
23/06/10, 7:43 pm
Note to Reggie: stop comparing a last gen console to a current gen console. Your gamecube 2 is going against PS2 not PS3 or 360.
You failed so bad with the first gamecube that your ego forced you to take another stab and now that you’re doing better you think you’re sitting at top…well sir you’re not.
#6
koopa
23/06/10, 7:54 pm
@5 agree, the 3ds has better graphics than the WII.
edit, jk.
#7
Phoenixblight
23/06/10, 7:56 pm
@4
Thats not flame bait for console wars other than I am curious what Isuru thinks is American because whatever he thinks that is, Reggie doesn’t seem to fit that mold.
#8
ivycrew707
23/06/10, 8:40 pm
@7 I was more applying to fanboys uniting in defense of americanism
#9
Isuru86
23/06/10, 9:28 pm
I just want to Know what His Origin is.
#10
Phoenixblight
23/06/10, 10:02 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Fils-Aime
As American as myself or anyone else that lives in the States.
#11
Gadzooks!
23/06/10, 10:22 pm
Oh Reggie you big joker, we know you are purely guessing as there is no way you can see past the dollar bills piled up around your solid gold castle!
The PS3 and 360 are so far behind the Wii that I’m surprised he even remembers there are competetors out there!
#12
LordCancer
23/06/10, 10:39 pm
thats like saying your mom is uglier then my mom reggie wait, what? okay. nice burn dude.
#13
Happy Hardon Harry
24/06/10, 1:00 am
I can’t believe the Wii is still a 150 notes in the UK. I haven’t bought one yet, but i will when it comes down to a sane price i.e. £99.99 or lower.
#14
AceTheGamer23
24/06/10, 2:48 am
To you Nintedo fans out there the Wii sell are dropin like the stock market think about all the games they been coming out with lately for 3rd party companies they say that they cant do to much on the Wii graphic wise or controller wise they say this console is very limited thats why the PS3 move controller come in and take over or even the Kinect also Nintendo got a habit of remaking the same old games over and over people get tired of that but the Wii is for kids anyway so they dont care but I know my history with games and software,hardware and i know whats gone on inthe industry and real talk PS3 is on the rise over the system out there
#15
Dannybuoy
24/06/10, 7:26 am
I compare the wii fad to the laser-pointer fad a few years ago. Everyone had one, they were everywhere, red dots all about the place, now they are all in a drawer somewhere gathering dust.
#16
Gadzooks!
24/06/10, 9:04 am
“Wii sell are dropin like the stock market think about all the games they been coming out with lately”
What, like Super Mario Galaxy 2? A single platform game which is only just being outsold by the combined PS3+360 sales of Red Dead Redemption.
How about the rest of the charts? Still dominated by years old Wii games. Like I said, Nintendo have absolutely nothing to worry about.
The scary thing is they manage to pulverise the combined competition with ancient technology. When they release the Wii HD who knows how much farther they will shoot ahead?
You can guarantee they will keep the usual high standard of backward compatibility and talk is of an improved online service.