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Vgchartz Community: Did you expect these Wii sales?

No, I expected them to be below HD consoles 15 11.28%
 
No, I expected them way lower. 19 14.29%
 
I expected them a little lower. 67 50.38%
 
I expected them to be flat. 13 9.77%
 
I expected some YoY increases. 19 14.29%
 
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MrT-Tar said:

I expected it to do a little lower than it is currently doing, I just keep on finding some people ridiculously low predictions hilarious! 

I read someone saying that if Wii had a price cut next year it would have "a shot" at selling 15 millions through the year (and I still think that it will do it without a pricecut).



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In one word; hell no! Wait, that's two!



Err, yeah. Look at that cute little thread in my signature, :P? I wanted to make it back in September. The Wii's still slightly under those expectations, though, D:, this week and next week should be phenomenonal.

Never doubt the Wii during the holidays, ;D



 

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I expected lower.. I didn't expected the boost Just Dance 2 gave the Wii..



 

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Yes, I did. I made a post back at the end of October saying that Nintendo could do 19.33m this calandar year. I still think they can do it, but I'm going to be high in Japan and low everywhere else probably. My prediction goes through Jan 1 2011 as that week is mostly contained in 2010.

With some strong sales in NA it should easily make up for my ~400k overestimation for Japan.

Here is a chart with my prediction and numbers up until the week ending Dec 11th.


Prediction (M) Current (M) Weekly Needed (K)
NA 8.96 7.33 543.33
JPN 2.16 1.34 273.33
EMEAA 8.21 6.35 620
Total 19.33 15.02 1436.67



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Most of us, no, definitely not (look at any prediction thread 2 months ago).

I'd like to say I was a believer, but seeing everyone else predict so much lower than what I personally expected had me thinking it was just my Nintendo fanboyism inflating expectations... so I lowered them. (Really!)

But right now it's above even my optimistic expectations. Crazy



There was never any doubt that the Wii would dominate the holidays. Hell, the Wii even eclipses the DS during the holidays. However, I would have thought that market saturation would rule out any YoY increases. I guess every year another batch of kids come of Wii age. And the holiday software lineup is certainly a lot stronger this year than it has been in the past.



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nordlead said:

Yes, I did. I made a post back at the end of October saying that Nintendo could do 19.33m this calandar year. I still think they can do it, but I'm going to be high in Japan and low everywhere else probably. My prediction goes through Jan 1 2011 as that week is mostly contained in 2010.

With some strong sales in NA it should easily make up for my ~400k overestimation for Japan.

Here is a chart with my prediction and numbers up until the week ending Dec 11th.


Prediction (M) Current (M) Weekly Needed (K)
NA 8.96 7.33 543.33
JPN 2.16 1.34 273.33
EMEAA 8.21 6.35 620
Total 19.33 15.02 1436.67


So you think wii will top 84M end of year? it's looking likely :)



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Nintendogamer said:

So you think wii will top 84M end of year? it's looking likely :)

65.52m 19.33m = 84.85m, so yes.

If sales stay completely flat from this week to next week (using 100k from MediaCreate for Japan and missing NA sales so I'll say those are 875k), and then drop to half the week after Christmas then it'll reach ~84.5m

The funny thing is you quoted me in that thread too. I think my future predictions are a little bleak, but I try not to be overoptimistic with predictions that are years out.




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I always said JD2 would be big as well as MJ experience. What i didnt expect was a huge Nintendo campaign, with 3 bundles (3!!! from nintendo!), and the unexpected successes of epic mickey, DK(yeah didnt expect these strong western sales), Goldeneye and a whole bunch of 500k games which the wii seems like it's thriving on! Mario's 25th anniversary was a big deal for Nintendo!