The Wii Is Sick

I'm sure you've heard by now that the Wii is a bit under the weather. For a few months now, the Wii has been increasingly slowing down in the sales department. While in the grand scheme of things, slow sales are still better than no sales, it still has Nintendo worried. So much so, that they cut the price of the console, something Nintendo hasn't had to do in almost 3 years.

Recently, CVG reported that Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata cannot even spin the Wii's slow sales in a postive light. Iwata spoke on number of things, but most importantly was one of his quotes, when he stated that the Wii's situation in Japan "cannot be defined as healthy." While he only spoke of the Japanese front, the same can be held true for the rest of the world. People aren't buying Wiis like they used to.

He talked a little bit about why that is, one of the big reasons was that the price cut did not spike sales for a sustained period of time like Nintendo had hoped. Iwata would go on to say, "The price cut seems to have the least impact here [Japan] than other parts of the world." Iwata would also add that it was Nintendo's "urgent mission" to get sales numbers back to a healthier number.

With the Wii's holiday lineup featuring such titles as New Super Mario Brothers Wii, Nintendo should see their console sales figures go up, but for how long? Could it be possible that for the most part, everyone who wants a Wii already has one?