Although its pretty obvious why (economic recession and all that) but President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata has come out and explained why exactly Nintendo has dropped its sales forecast on the Wii. “”Wii was scaled back because the hardware bump was less than expected for year end in Japan. Were going to try hard to impress the market better this year.revealed Iwata. More inside So why was the hardware bump less? Its due to Wii Music, and why Iwata says it wasnt a mistake the game had communication issues. Nintendo will try to boost sales in the future in similar ways that it boosted DS sales with the launch of Brain Training and Animal Crossing DS on the DS back in 2005.

Source: GoNintendo