Nintendo Focusing on Wii U Games; No More Wii Titles
Nintendo confirms that it doesn't have any plans for first party Wii titles.
With the Wii U's announcement, it was only a matter of time before Nintendo abandoned its old platform in favor of supporting the new. Wii sales slowed down significantly in the past two years. With another first-day sellout console on its hands, it's no surprise that Nintendo's decided to move on.
Speaking to Gamespot, Nintendo of America Director of Product Marketing Bill Trinen confirmed this tidbit in an interview. When asked whether Nintendo had anything in the works for the Wii, he responded, "No, there are not right now."
According to Polygon, if Nintendo's stopped development for the Wii, then Kirby's Dream Collection, which launched in North America on the 16th, will be Nintendo's swan song to the console.
Sadly, it might be time to trade in your Wiis or shelf them, and welcome a new Wii U-only era of Nintendo.
Hmmm this does not seem right
Guess for fun: we'll see another article soon saying this isn't true.
And don't forget about Microsoft shutting down the Xbox Live service for the original Xbox (and a handful of Halo 2 players who resisted it by keeping their consoles on and connected as long as possible).
Which only means non games from Nintendo, 3rd party developers *may* still make games for the Wii. Although lets face it, there haven't been any decent Wii games in a while.
This is just terrible and wasteful thinking. Not everyone with a Wii can afford a Wii U right away, and further more just because a console is no longer supported doesn't mean it stops being entertaining.
There are millions of people who still actively play older games on dated consoles or dated PC games on their native platform. You're attitude here is of extreme consumerism to a unhealthy extent.
Sony's last release for the PS2 was 2011 "MLB 11: The Show"
Last notable first party game by Sony "Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier" from 2009, port of PSP game. May be wrong about last "notable", correct me if I am wrong.
Nintendo does not have the best history supporting last gen home consoles after the new ones comes out, at least in the US. In Japan where Famicom console (NES's japanese name) was being produced until 2003 and got games until 1994. The Super Famicom (SNES) got 1st party games well into 1998 and 3rd party ones until 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_games_released_on_video_game_consoles