Nintendo has blown it...

Nintendo Has Blown It, They Will Never Recover.

Sales of Wii Will Only Continue to Drop, Says Market Observer

With the release of Microsoft Kinect and Sony Move motion-sensing technologies for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 the stir towards Nintendo Wii game console by casual gamers started to decline. Technologies by Microsoft and Sony are not worse than Nintendo's, but Xbox 360 and PS3 have better graphics and a number of other capabilities. An analyst believes that sales of Wii will quickly drop and the company will not be able to recover easily.

Nintendo has been long rumored to release a successor for the Wii game console with high-definition graphics support as well as better quality of content overall. However, Nintendo relied on its Wii - which had exclusive motion-sensing game controller, but had outdated graphics core and underperforming microprocessor - and did not release anything new to offer quality of experience similar to PS3 or Xbox 360. Now that the motion-sensing controllers are available for all three current-generation systems, Nintendo has lost its only trump and naturally sales of its Wii started to decline gradually. Since Kinect and Move were announced over a year ahead of release, Nintendo had a lot of time to finalize a successor for Wii (at the end, it had enough time to develop a decent console) and release it in 2010. But the company failed to do so.

“I think it’s pretty sad when one of the top brand names in gaming begins to lack what it takes to move forward these days, granted Nintendo has been out longer but it has always been simpler too.  2-D graphics, side scrollers, and plat formers, not to mention their lack of storytelling have always been their main craze, but the lack of graphics and low-budget motion sensorsing will be its downfall, especially against Microsoft and Sony whom specialize in blowing today’s gamers away with 3-D CGI, deep storytelling, and first person shooters dominating the scene.  Good luck Nintendo!”