Yes! Yes it should

Nintendo hit a homerun when it released its Wii back in November of 06. Sales have been strong and from time to time it has been really hard to find a Wii, especially during the holiday season. Many people where scammed and some people had to pay a premium for the consoles back when no retail store had any in stock.

It's been 2 years since that day, well 1 year 4 months since the Wii was first released. Ever since then people and analyst alike have been commenting that the Wii is just a fad and that it will die out soon. Even competing companies have gone on record and said that as soon as people are bored with the Wii they will buy a PS3 or a 360. Microsoft even said that people will buy a Wii as a second console. However, everyone has been wrong and up to date the Wii is the #1 selling consoles around the world. But is Nintendo overestimating consumers?

As of today the Wii isn't really hard to find anymore. Stores have stocked up and there's plenty to go around and people who didn't get one during Christmas now got one without having to pay a premium. I can't predict what's going to happen in the future but what I can tell you is that my Wii (That doesn’t sound right) was gathering dust for months until Smash Bros Brawl came along. I didn’t even play gamecube games on it and I have a huge library of games (over 50+ games). I found myself often playing my Playstation 3 more than my Wii and I only have 3 games for the PS3.

This is basically a sign of things to come. The Wii doesn’t really have good games and the games that are great get messed up controls. It’s going to be a while before the Wii get’s some good games that are worth playing. If you look at the list of best sellers on Wii you will see that most of them are Nintendo titles or kid’s titles like Hannah Montana. No More Heroes is a great game yet it doesn’t seem to make it into the best sellers. It was there for only one day and the next day it disappeared.

Microsoft and PS3 have both been dropping the price of their consoles and with better games coming out for both systems it’s only a matter of time before people make the switch. Once again I don’t want to predict anything; I am going based on what is happening right now and how many people that I know of are playing. Most of my friends are doing the same thing. They haven’t touched their Wii’s in a long time and are mainly playing their 360. Yes most of my friends have 360’s and not PS3’s which sucks because I have no one to play online with.

Microsoft recently dropped the price of the 360 which puts it a below what the Wii normally costs. It’s only a matter of time before Sony takes notice and decides to drop the price of the PS3 as well, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon, Maybe during the holiday season. With both of these machines you get HD graphics, a DVD player which in reality is really worth your money. The Wii all you get is a Gamecube 1.5 with OK graphics if the developer really spends time buffing up the graphics engine, which most developers don’t do.

Nintendo really needs to do something with the Wii before its left in the dust. If it doesn’t drop the price by this Christmas Nintendo will basically be digging its own grave. If people remember correctly Nintendo dropped the price of their newly released Nintendo DS from $150 to $130 7 months after it was released. When the DS Lite was released it was still at $130 but you got more than the previous version of the DS. Now both of these consoles are about to be beaten by the competition. The PSP is already outselling the DS and it’s only a matter of time before the 360 catches of to the Wii and surpasses it in sales. Even the PS3 has a chance to catch up to the Wii now that the HD-DVD is obsolete. People will be buying PS3 as a HD Movie player and since it’s also a console they might as well play a few games while they are at it.

Don’t get me wrong I love the Wii, I think it’s a great console and I’m truly enjoying Smash Bros and soon Mario Kart. But like I said these titles will only take the Wii so far before people start forgetting it. I hope Nintendo is planning something like a price drop or new colors for the Wii real soon to catch more consumer interest before people get bored and look the other way.

The same thing goes with the DS. People are starting to lose interest on the handheld and right now the PSP is outselling it. It’s time for the DS to get another price drop or risk getting beat by the PSP which has better everything that the DS.