Avinash_Tyagi said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
The fuck? Wii Music didn't cause Wii sales to collapse. It was doing amazingly during that period because Mario Kart and Wii Fit were still going strong. That was kind of my whole point. And then he says the price drop and Wii Sports Resort had no effect which is also completely false. He truly believes it was 100% Mario!
I wanted an answer as to why the Wii has declined so sharply after a record holiday season and the best he could come up with is people just stopped caring about the console because of Galaxy 2's existence. I guess he missed the part where I said I agreed with him on Other M too and managed to fit a mini Sakamoto rant in there. Pretty much everything else he said was entirely irrelevant.
I am disappoint. Maybe I'll have another go at it when I have the time.
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Actually he was right, the difference is clear if you look at the facts, first off, the sales of Wii Sports resort didn't boost Wii sales much, nor did the price cut, but NSMB Wii led Wii to a record setting holiday. As for Animal Crossing and Wii Music, of course they were momentum killers, before them Wii was selling amazing, then i petered out, even Iwata admits this, and trust me, his internal data would prove this, on the other hand, he notes the huge success of NSMB Wii
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I think you're the one that needs to look at the facts. Wii was hovering around 150-200k in the months leading up to the price drop. It caused sales to more than double worldwide and they kept rising until the end of October before the holiday boost kicked in. Wii was selling over 500k before NSMBWii even came out. Yes, Mario was the main driver of sales but WSR was doing monster numbers too (it broke a million a couple weeks in December so you can't say it had no effect) and as I already proved, the price drop DID help a lot.
