Nintendo Sells Two Million Wiis in November

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, it came out a couple months ago... September to be exact, looking it up. Supposedly it's pretty good, but not that hard... oh well, as I love the Wario Land games, I'm sure I'd like it (and it's supposed to be far better than the not-very-good Wario: Master of Disguise on the DS...). Great graphics too, very nice 2d art...

But yeah, this is arguably Nintendo's first holiday season since before they released the NES that they did not have a major, hardcore title out for the holidays... the only way to get around this is if you count Wii Animal Crossing as "hardcore", which I, at least, probably wouldn't. And this comes as Nintendo breaks sales records? Amazing... they figured out how to hit the mass market like never before. It's looking like a Playstation-like industry re-alignment, really... but even though Nintendo seems to mostly have forgotten their base (NOA hasn't announced its Q1 2009 schedule yet, they're bringing over fewer titles than ever from Japan, etc) in favor of counting their piles of money, hopefully it won't last forever... and they did release stuff like Fire Emblem RD, Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, etc.

But really, that is the question... why care what your hardcore fans think when aiming casual is such a brilliantly successful strategy? When will they start to pay attention to their longtime fans again and stop saying that Animal Crossing and Wii Music should, somehow, make us happy?