Nintendo of Europe’s managing director, Lauret Fischer believes there is still plenty of life left in the Wii yet despite many analysts and industry professionals starting to write the console off. This trend has been increasing recently especially now that Xbox and Playstation will soon have their motion controlled devices soon available and many believe that the Wii will not be able to compete with the hi-def consoles:

“I think you just need to look at the facts to see this is not true – we achieved global sales of 20 million units of Wii in the last financial year alone. Our aim has always been to expand the gaming population and with European sales of Wii now over 22 million we have taken some steps towards achieving this. However, there are still many more people out there who have not yet experienced the fun of video games and we hope to continue to provide compelling reasons for these people to consider buying a Wii. Wii regained its momentum in the second half of last year and the continued good sales of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and other major titles has kept this momentum going. We believe the strong software line-up this year – with the imminent launch of Super Mario Galaxy 2 and further strong titles such as Wii Party and Metroid: Other M in the pipeline – will help to maintain this momentum.”

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