Wii Virtual Console Sales Slowing Says Iwata

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Video Games

Apparently, we aren’t the only ones confused by

Nintendo’s Virtual Console release choices. We haven’t really seen much to be excited about on a weekly basis as Nintendo announces titles that seem to be more miss than hit. The numbers don’t lie: Back in January, Nintendo announced that they had sold over 1.5 million Virtual Console downloadable titles. As of today, sales are at 3.3 million. While that means that sales have doubled in the past three months, the problem is that Wii has a much larger userbane now than it did back in the November-January period. 1.5 million in the first two months of the consoles life, when it was hard to find versus 1.8 million in the three months after isn’t the best of news.

Nintendo - come on, hook us up. There are plenty of games in your catalogue that users would love to buy. Heck, where are all the Nintendo 64 titles? Surely you know that Nintendo fans from the N64 age are into more than just Mario and Zelda, no? Where are WWE No Mercy, Pilotwings, GoldenEye, Super Smash Brothers,

, and others? Seriously, if you want us to buy, give us a reason to do so.

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