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spurgeonryan said:

superchunk said:

Some of you are way too low on Wii's final sales numbers.

Its already above 95m. When WiiU launches, Wii will probably be dropped in price again and still sell another 5-8m by end of this year. It will remain on shelves for at least another two years before it becomes scarce or fully pulled from market. That should enable it to get at least another 10-12m between various bundles and people just buying it because it so cheap.

Have to keep in mind some people don't own any machine or will replace aging machines. Additionally, even at $99 it will be a profitable sale for Nintendo, so they will continue to produce it until sales dry up and cost to manufacture starts to have no margin.

It should realistically reach the 115m mark when its all said and done.

If that is indeed what happens then I would wholeheartedly agree with you! Isn't the Wii already 99 dollars at Walmarts though? Cannot go down much more. Maybe 89.99 there, and everywhere else down to 99.99 including bundles. Wait for this Christmas or a little after I would say.

No, its $149 everywhere. The $99 thing was a xmas holiday sale only.... and it did very well.