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Forums - Sales Discussion - Wii selling even faster than the DS

reverie on 18 April 2007
Kai Master said:
The DS was not very successuf until Nintendogs came out circa week 52, let's see if a game can help the Wii beat the DS from week 52.

 Nintendogs came out in Apr 05, so that would be now (Apr 07) for the Wii.



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Erik Aston on 18 April 2007

I'm not sure if Wii Sports is "that game" in Japan... It has a 60% attach rate, but with Wii restricted by supply, that doesn't result in uber-fast sales, and makes it difficult to predict if sales end at 3 million or 7 million.

I do think Wii Sports is an "epiphany" game in the West, moreso than any DS games have been... Nintendogs is the mega-game in the West, and Wii Sports seems bigger, based on the press its getting... How many games get good reviews from retirement homes on the NBC Nightly News 4 and a half months after release?

It is significant that Wii is selling faster than DS in the early going in Japan, but whether Wii can break through to that unreal level of 100K sales a week for long periods of time is another question...



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