Dear Reader:
What in the hell is Donkey Kong Trooper Challenge?
This comes from the VentureBeat interview with Reggie Fils-Aime that we posted up earlier…
VB: And did you have any worry that you have an Osborne effect? Maybe you won’t sell that many more Wiis now?
RF-A: We don’t think that’s going to be an issue and here is why. Let me focus in on the US. About 36 million units later, the consumer who is buying a Wii for the first time now is very different from from one buying the first 1 million Wii units. The consumer today loves the $149 price point. There is a wide range of software. For the consumer today, having a library that includes Wii Sports Resort and Wii New Super Mario Bros., Wii Donkey Kong Trooper Challenge — it’s a different consumer. And so I continue to believe that the Wii will have a strong summer, fall, holiday season and we are going to continue to drive the Wii part of our business. It will be strong even after the Wii U launches. They are just different consumers and we saw that just as an example when we launched the 3DS and continued to sell other units too.