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RunningMild
03-12-2009, 03:50 AM
http://news.spong.com/article/19900/Nintendo-Slows-Wii-Production

Once upon a time it was all gumdrop smiles and rainbow meadows for Nintendo’s Wii, but this year the console has had trouble maintaining its (admittedly insane) traction from 2008. Particularly in Japan, reports the Nikkei, where the Kyoto company is in the process of scaling back Wii production.

According to the report, two component manufacturers - Mitsumi and Hosiden - are suffering huge losses in revenue this fiscal year, of more than 50%. The blame is laid on “declining fortunes” of the Wii console and “a drop-off in orders from Nintendo to assemble game systems.”

The news follows recent reports of Nintendo cutting back its profit margins (http://news.spong.com/article/19609/Nintendos-Depressed-Financials-Bring-Realism), and the admittance (http://news.spong.com/article/19632/Satoru-Iwata-Wii-and-PS3-are-Neck-and-Neck) by company chief Satoru Iwata that Wii sales in 2009 have been approximately “half the size of last year.”

Forget all the doom and gloom- I bet they're only doing this to keep the price high. ;)
Watchers
03-12-2009, 11:37 AM
Everyone already has one, so why would they need to keep making as much as they have been?
AranchineD
03-12-2009, 11:45 AM
Everyone already has one, so why would they need to keep making as much as they have been?

They're slowing down production now in preparation for the WiiiXL, which on release will sell approximately 27 million units.
Stevorooni
03-12-2009, 12:01 PM
They should release a HD version that can upscale all games to 1080p like this (http://kotaku.com/5417307/this-is-what-new-super-mario-bros-wii-in-1080p-looks-like)
SOX
03-12-2009, 01:54 PM
Has anyone got the Dolphin emulator actually running reasonably? I tried SSBM a while ago on my MacBook Pro (which was already about two years old) and it ran pretty slowly (albeit smoothly) on 640x480.
I'm going to check it out again when I get my desktop back up and running cause playing GCN/Wii games in a nice res would be rad.
FX-GTZ
03-12-2009, 02:25 PM
They should release a HD version that can upscale all games to 1080p like this (http://kotaku.com/5417307/this-is-what-new-super-mario-bros-wii-in-1080p-looks-like)

A bigger resolution would be SO awesome. I had been playing Oblivion in 640x480 and didnt think to change the settings until i started to use a few dungeon mods, and now that im running it on 1400x900, everything is crisp and detailed, well except that goddamn view distance in the open land, it always seems to look smudged and blurred... bleh.
aubergine
03-12-2009, 06:22 PM
What happened to the black Wii which was meany to appear...
dinopoke
03-12-2009, 06:35 PM
I thought that was supposed to be bundled with Monster Hunter Tri?
Fenrir
03-12-2009, 07:15 PM
What happened to the black Wii which was meany to appear...
Had the same question, looked it up - there was (is?) a "limited edition" in Europe. This would be a good time for Nintendo to start mass-production of colours (including black), so maybe they'll finally cut the bullshit in this tiny regard?
aubergine
03-12-2009, 07:45 PM
They've become colour-Nazis somewhere along the line. The big deal they made about how the NSMBii red packaging was "strictly a one-off" sort of suggests they want total ownership of iPod white, which in my eyes has turned as beige as the Wii's software line-up.
RunningMild
03-12-2009, 08:29 PM
What about the DS? There's tons of colours for that thing.