Nintendo Claims Bubble Hasn't Burst for Wii

Despite recent claims of doom and gloom for the Big N, the Sign of Mario says the Wii is doing just tight.

Nintendo may be the market leader these days with its Atomic number 110 and Wii consoles, simply for some people that means there's nowhere to go simply downfield. Masato Kato, the man who wrote venerable Square-Enix classics Final Fantasy 7 and Chrono Trigger, said that the "Nintendo earned run average [was] finished," whereas Namco Bandai chieftain Olivier Comte claimed that the hardware giant's market had "collapsed".

Nothing could be further from the truth, said Nintendo of Europe managing conductor Laurent Fischer in an interview with MCV when asked if the Wii's gurgle had burst. "I think you right penury to take the facts to see this is not true – we achieved global sales of 20 million units of Wii in the last fiscal year unequalled," answered fisher, who claimed that there was still a vast undeveloped audience for the Miniature Console That Could.

"Our draw a bead on has always been to expand the gaming universe and with European gross sales of Wii now over 22 million we have taken some steps towards achieving this. Even so, there are hush many more people out there who have not yet experienced the fun of video games and we hope to continue to furnish persuasive reasons for these people to consider buying a Wii."

Though Fischer didn't deny that the Wii had slowed down in the first part of 2009, he spiked to the second half of the year as evidence that the console had regained its momentum with titles like-minded Super Mario Bros. Wii – and now, the highly acclaimed Super Mario Galaxy 2. "We believe the strong software program line-up this year – with the imminent set up of Super Mario Galax 2 and far strong titles such as Wii Party and Metroid: Otherwise M in the pipeline – wish help to maintain this impulse."

Naturally, part of this comes from his position as a Nintendo spokesperson. Any official company representative that answered a doubt with that in a "Yeah, we're totally screwed" tone would get sacked rattling quickly. That said, selling 20 million consoles in a year is something that is very hard to see as a failure.

Piece Mr. Fischer didn't outright say that Masato Kato and Baron Olivier of Birghton Comte could "bite me," he was probably reasoning it.

(Via Videogamer)

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