WiiFit hits 1,000,000!

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FishyJoe on 10 January 2008

I have a word for Wii Fit Explosion...

OPRAH

If and when this is on her show, there will be a million Wii Fit sales overnight.

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Renar on 10 January 2008

FishyJoe said:
I have a word for Wii Fit Explosion...

OPRAH

If and when this is on her show, there will be a million Wii Fit sales overnight.

No there won't. Just 600,000 disappointed women, and us saying, wow, 400k WiiFit sold in 1 week??!!

Torturing the numbers. Hear them scream.

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rocketpig on 10 January 2008

fkusumot said:

rocketpig said:
I get the nagging feeling that this "game" won't explode in NA and Europe nearly as much as most other posters here. I think it will do well but not "best selling game of all time" type of sales.

I will predict 7-8m when all is said and done.

Less than Halo3? Really?

Quite possibly. I think Wii Fii has a few things going against it:

- Demographic of the Wii. Some people just won't care about this "game" whatsoever. I'm one of them.

- Price. This, when combined with the console price, is a pretty expensive balance board. It's not exercise, at all, and I think many Westerners will see that.

- The Japanese are hardly an indicator of popularity when it comes to stuff like this. For every Japanese trend you throw at me, I could throw back 10 that just didn't take off in the Western world.

- I don't think middle-aged Westerners are ready to buy into a "game" that needs peripherals (like the console itself) and try to exercise with it. I just don't see it happening in enormous numbers.

I could be wrong but that's just my opinion. We'll all know the truth in six months and I know how badly anyone takes flak on this board for questioning one of Nintendo's sacred cows.

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stranne on 10 January 2008

You have a very one-eyed view on exercise.

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fkusumot on 10 January 2008

rocketpig said:

- I don't think middle-aged Westerners are ready to buy into a "game" that needs peripherals (like the console itself) and try to exercise with it. I just don't see it happening in enormous numbers.

I could be wrong but that's just my opinion. We'll all know the truth in six months and I know how badly anyone takes flak on this board for questioning one of Nintendo's sacred cows.

And yet it's amazing how many "yoga" mats get sold each year as a peripheral. "Blue Ocean" gets thrown around a lot but this is the real test (or Nintendo's purest attempt) at really pushing that strategy. At this point, no matter how it does, it will be held up as an example for years to come.

I Blame Wii Fit!

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omgwtfbbq on 10 January 2008

Mummelmann said:

OriGin said:
LOL All of Mummelman's predictions are so wrong it's not funny.... the only prediction which he got correct was that people would bag him for his predictions.

They will be wrong. All of them.

Wii Fit will be one of the highest selling games of all time.

Galaxy will surely pass 7m

There are so many psychic people on Vgchartz, they could to a Discovery special on it!

Seriously, dude; look at MP3 numbers for instance, not extremely impressive tbh. Think it'll crack 7 million LT? I sure don't!

only one of those games (MP3, SSBB, SMG) has to sell over 7 million for your prediction to be wrong. MP3 definitely won't do it, but SMG and SSBB both will.

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Avinash_Tyagi on 10 January 2008

rocketpig said:

fkusumot said:

rocketpig said:
I get the nagging feeling that this "game" won't explode in NA and Europe nearly as much as most other posters here. I think it will do well but not "best selling game of all time" type of sales.

I will predict 7-8m when all is said and done.

Less than Halo3? Really?

Quite possibly. I think Wii Fii has a few things going against it:

- Demographic of the Wii. Some people just won't care about this "game" whatsoever. I'm one of them.

- Price. This, when combined with the console price, is a pretty expensive balance board. It's not exercise, at all, and I think many Westerners will see that.

- The Japanese are hardly an indicator of popularity when it comes to stuff like this. For every Japanese trend you throw at me, I could throw back 10 that just didn't take off in the Western world.

- I don't think middle-aged Westerners are ready to buy into a "game" that needs peripherals (like the console itself) and try to exercise with it. I just don't see it happening in enormous numbers.

I could be wrong but that's just my opinion. We'll all know the truth in six months and I know how badly anyone takes flak on this board for questioning one of Nintendo's sacred cows.

You're not the demographic being targeted

Its Wii fit, not Wii exercise, not Wii fat, its designed to be part of a movement towards fitness not the only thing, the software is designed to includes the exercises on the system, from jogging, to pushups, and also your external exercise, like if you o to a gym, into a plan that it helps you sculpt to reach your goal, it is a motivation tool to help you become fit, not the one size fits all cure, the west loves its exercise gear andy buys tons of junk that doesn't do anything, this does something, its like having an in home trainer

Its not that expensive, lieke Wii play sells the software and a Wiimote for 60, this is a pad and the software for 70, in fact its a bargain

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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Sqrl on 10 January 2008

Its cheaper than a home gym =P

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stof on 10 January 2008

I'm really interested to see what kind of promotion Wiifit gets in NA and Europe, as in each territory, marketing really will make the difference between one million and five million.

And as for Mummelmann's sig, it's greatest fault is it's size. My lord man! Leave some space on the internet for the rest of us, ok?

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Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!

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