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There is a lot of talk about how many units the Wii is selling. I mean you still can’t find one unless you wait in line for the goddamn thing and we are already over four months past launch. Though the Wii is definitely selling the most units per month, selling at a rate even higher than that of the 360 who has been out for almost a year longer, I do not think one could say it is winning the console war. What the success of the Wii makes one ask is can it sustain this momentum?

The correct answer to the above is no. The Nintendo Wii is still riding high off of fanboyism and scarcity. Don’t get me wrong, I do own one. I waited in line and acquired a Wii by waiting in line just like you did or will. I just do not think that the Wii has the games to support such rabbid sales and thus it must be the hype built up around it rather than its revolutionary software. The people who are still waiting in these lines to get the systems either have only played Wii Sports or have not had a chance to be sorely disappointed with most of the other current title offerings.

Though Nintendo may be raking in the cash, and rightfully so from their outstanding DS sales, I think that they are in for a social backlash if they do not start putting out titles that people are interested in. For now people are just excited enough to acquire a system and go crazy and buy games they think they may like. I just don’t know how long the hype can last. Sony and Microsoft’s systems might end up making more oustanding additions to their software catalogs, doing what Nintendon’t.

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