Wii production to cease

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Nintendo will cease manufacturing its Wii console in the near future, the company has confirmed.

In a note to customers on the Wii product page, the Japanese website has the words "近日生産終了予定" placed next to the console, which means "manufacturing is scheduled to end soon".

The ceased production will mark the final chapter of the Wii story, which began when first announced in 2004 and went on to become the most successful home console in the company's 125-year history. Considered a pioneering device that popularised motion control, the Wii shipped on November 19, 2006, and sold out near-immediately.

In July, Nintendo announced that lifetime sales of the system have surpassed the 100 million mark - joining an elite club of just three home consoles that have managed to sell at that volume (the other two being PlayStation One and PlayStation 2).

However, despite its success, the Wii is only Nintendo's third most popular games device when handhelds are factored in. Its all-time best seller is the Game Boy, which recorded lifetime sales of 118 million. In second place is the Nintendo DS.


In March, Nintendo released the Wii Mini, a rudimentary version of the console designed with a priority to keep manufacturing costs low. The hardware lacked online functionality, did not feature an SD card slot or support GameCube backwards compatibility.

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GrownPosted:

I think everyone expected this to happen. It was only s matter of time.

gmlukensPosted:

silentwolf R.I.P Wii the best childhood memory :)


Haha idk about best but it was a pretty good one

Dr-JPosted:

silentwolf R.I.P Wii the best childhood memory :)


If the wii was in your "child hood" memory, how old are you?

-Clash-Posted:

R.I.P Wii the best childhood memory :)

StonerzardPosted:

wiikid3000
Dr-J
PawnStars
Immerse Honestly, I'm rather sad to see that Nintendo is in this state.

Nintendo has been a huge part of my gaming life, I will never forget playing the SNES as a kid.


I remember those days, it's really kind of sad to see em like this

I'm sure they will have something cool in the future, they can't give up this easily. They need new creative minds.


In all honestly, they should just sell the rights to their games and be a publisher. Just think for a moment. A new pokemon game thats rated T or M and it will be like skyrim. It could be on any platform including PC. It was be awesome. Also think of a Metroid or that is rated M. I find nintendo to be a generation thing. I don't see many kids playing pokemon these days as i see my college classmates. But i could be wrong. And that's just my thought.


I have always thought that Pokmon on the Xbox and Playstation would be classic! But no, I wanna see Nintendo just make a good, normal, fun console next...please?

wiikid3000Posted:

Dr-J
PawnStars
Immerse Honestly, I'm rather sad to see that Nintendo is in this state.

Nintendo has been a huge part of my gaming life, I will never forget playing the SNES as a kid.


I remember those days, it's really kind of sad to see em like this

I'm sure they will have something cool in the future, they can't give up this easily. They need new creative minds.


In all honestly, they should just sell the rights to their games and be a publisher. Just think for a moment. A new pokemon game thats rated T or M and it will be like skyrim. It could be on any platform including PC. It was be awesome. Also think of a Metroid or that is rated M. I find nintendo to be a generation thing. I don't see many kids playing pokemon these days as i see my college classmates. But i could be wrong. And that's just my thought.

Corn_DogPosted:

ODST Sales numbers just for those of you that don't know (as of 2011?):
PS2: 155,000,000 units sold
Playstation: 102,490,000 units sold
Wii: 99,840,000 units sold (apparently now currently 118,000,000)
Xbox360: 77,200,000 units sold
PS3: 77,000,000 units sold


I would be willing to be that was all withing the first couple of years when there was all the hype around it

ODSTPosted:

Sales numbers just for those of you that don't know (as of 2011?):
PS2: 155,000,000 units sold
Playstation: 102,490,000 units sold
Wii: 99,840,000 units sold (apparently now currently 118,000,000)
Xbox360: 77,200,000 units sold
PS3: 77,000,000 units sold

Corn_DogPosted:

ZENU96
Called People still play that thing called the Wii? xD


It's actually a very fun console to use if you have friends over, it's more of a "family" console in my opinion, the PS3 and xbox are more of a "gamer" console.


yeah but with the kinect and eye the wii is obsolete

SIKSPosted:

Called People still play that thing called the Wii? xD


It's actually a very fun console to use if you have friends over, it's more of a "family" console in my opinion, the PS3 and xbox are more of a "gamer" console.


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