Nintendo Wants 15 Million More Wii Sales Before Talking "Next-Gen"

With the PlayStation Move and Xbox 360 Kinect on store shelves, there is now well and truly a three-way competition in motion-control gaming. But despite the Wii having lost some of its unique selling points, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says there still isn’t any great need to release a successor some time next year to keep up.

“As we sit here today we’re saying the Wii has many, many more units to sell,” Fils-Aime said during an interview with Kotaku, following a speech he gave at the BMO Capital Markets 18th Annual Digital Entertainment Conference in New York earlier this week — where he revealed lifetime Wii sales in the U.S. currently sit at 30.4 million.

“After we’ve reached an installed base of 45 million here in the U.S., we can have a conversation about the next generation,” Fils-Aime continued. When asked point-blank if he feels Nintendo needs to release a Wii successor next holiday season, Fils-Aime had a terse answer: “No.”