Nintendo promises a strong 2011 for Wii with "fantastic new experiences" on the way later this year...

3DS may be out on shelves and doing pretty business, but Nintendo stresses they're keen to maximise their current home console.

Speaking to CVG Nintendo UK's James Honeywell responded to the rather tame nature of Wii's sales over the past year.

"We've been really pleased with Wii and how it has performed. It's the market leader in the UK by some margin. I think it has been proven really that it is Britain's favourite home console with a huge install base. But obviously as you reach a certain level things perhaps might slow down, but again we've got a really strong line-up, we're really proud with what we've achieved in getting it into so many homes, and we've have a strong campaign for promotion this year and think it will continue as a strong viable format."

Nintendo of Europe has already confirmed the long-awaited Xenoblade will be seeing localisation later this year. But even adding that to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the official Wii schedule is a tad thin. Just how many cards are Nintendo holding to their chest?

"I guess we haven't made any announcements recently because we've been concentrating on the 3DS launch, but there are still lots of games to come. I'm sure you'll see at this year's E3. For anybody who has a Wii, they can rest assured that we'll be bringing some fantastic new experiences to them."

Satoru Iwata spoke earlier in the year of plenty of unannounced Wii titles that were in the works. It remains to be seen whether we'll see the mysteriously reclusive Pandora's Tower, Mistwalker's The Last Story or HAL's new Kirby game this year, but we sense 2011 will produce one or two other surprises. It just seems we'll have to wait for E3 before we really learn what Wii's 2011 is going to look like.

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