News: No Wii 2 for Xmas

Nintendo has said that gamers should not put the Wii 2 on your Xmas wish list, in order to avoid disappointed. The company’s current motion-based gaming console might still be the best-selling current generation console to date, but is experiencing the fastest decline in game sales.

In an interview with Kotaku, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime stated that the Wii still has life in it yet, as it is outselling the PlayStation 2 (PS2), which was the best selling console of the last generation of gaming consoles. It is selling 23% faster during the same period in its life cycle that the PS2.

He also pointed out that the Wii has already surpassed the 30 million sales mark in the US and wants to see that figure increase by 50%, even in the face of tough competition from Sony and its PlayStation 3 Move add-on and Microsoft’s motion-based, controllerless system dubbed Kinect.

“As we sit here today we’re saying the Wii has many, many more units to sell,” Fils-Aime said. “After we’ve reached an installed base of 45 million here in the U.S., we can have a conversation about the next generation.”

The Japanese company also recently started replacing its Wii Remote controller with the Wii Remote Plus controller, revealing that since the launch of the popular console Stateside, it has sold a whopping 46 000 Wii remote controllers per day, amounting to a total of over 65.3 million controllers being sold in the States alone.

No Wii 2 for Xmas

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