Rumors of a successor to the Nintendo Wii have been flying around for some time now, not the least because last year saw a slight downturn in sales following previous record-breaking years. According to Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway though, the platform’s install base still has plenty of room to grow.
Speaking with GameSpot during yesterday’s Nintendo Media Summit, Dunaway suggested that gamers shouldn’t be holding their breath for the next generation of the Wii, “I don’t think it’ll be anytime soon. Even though our install base is, at this point, five million households larger than the PS2 install base was at the same point in its life cycle, it still has a lot of room to grow.”
She continued, “If you think PS2, there’s been about 50 million sold — Wii close to 28 million sold — so it says to me there’s still a big audience out there that we can access with Wii.”