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Sqrl on 12 February 2008
NJ5 said:
CrazzyMan said:
It wil be good, if Nintendo finally solved supply problem. =)
Sooner all nintendo fans get Wii, and previous GC owners casual gamers, Sooner we will see sales of only NEW casual/hardcore gamers (non GC owners) and casual non-gamers.

x360 90k? DMC4 did effect?
60k for ps3 also good number.

 


LMAO

Very nice....I can't believe I didn't think of that myself @@...still though thats mean ...LMAO....oh man...you seriously got me teared up I laughed so hard...well played sir~

@kitler53,

The Wii only needs to sell 415k per week to meet that mark.

1.8m x 12 months = 21.6m for the year

21.6m / 52 weeks = 415,385 (rounded up)

It may seem like a minor difference at a glance but if they do 450k a week it would be 23.4m for the year or an extra 1.8m...so in essence an entire extra months worth. So really its a bigger difference than you might think...and now you know..and knowing is half the battle. /end cheesey slogan



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sharky on 12 February 2008

360 is sold out everywhere right now. I'm guessing a shipment hit retail and quickly sold out last week hence the 360 bump.

360 is really kicking into high gear. Kind of funny for a console that was supposed to roll over and play dead for PS3 this year according to all the pundits.



FishyJoe on 12 February 2008

'Sold out' is a very vague term and can be used to mean different things to different people. Where is the dividing line between 'Sold out', 'Limited supply', 'Low supply', etc.?

I wrote before about developing some kind of scale of supply, but it wasn't met with much enthusiasm. I guess we'll have to live with constant arguments about what constitutes 'Sold out'.



Sqrl on 12 February 2008
sharky said:
360 is sold out everywhere right now. I'm guessing a shipment hit retail and quickly sold out last week hence the 360 bump.

360 is really kicking into high gear. Kind of funny for a console that was supposed to roll over and play dead for PS3 this year according to all the pundits.

 I don't think people thought the 360 would roll over and play dead, what they did say was that the PS3 would do better than the 360 this year and if you've been keeping track of sales thus far you know that they've been spot on thus far.

With that said GTA IV will still be a much bigger game for the 360 than the PS3 and I'm sure we can find common ground on the fact that MS will not simply let Sony take the market with a nod and a wave.  They are going to continue doing the best they can to market their product and it will be an interesting battle probably for the entire year. 
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dajeff on 12 February 2008

ummm, I see 360's everywhere I look.. If for any chance they seem scarce I am gonna call MS is trying to create artifical demand!

How hard could it be to keep up with demand when you are basicallt only doing well in 1 region...



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TWRoO on 12 February 2008

So is the Wii going to stop selling in August? (otherwise known as, when it reaches 32 million)



azrm2k on 12 February 2008
CrazzyMan said:


Wii sold 5 mln. in Japan, 1 mln. more then GC, thxn to casual non-gamers (2 mln. Wii play).
Wii sold 6.8 mln. in Europe, 2 mln. more then GC, thnx to casual non-gamers(3 mln. wii play) and casual gamers(SMG sales increased).
Wii sold 9.3 mln. in USA, 3,4 mln. less then GC.

So, Japan should very soon reach level(6 mln.), when all GC onwers bought Wii.
Europe is near reaching this level too(8 mln.).
Usa need to sell atleast 18 mln., when almost all GC owners will buy Wii.

So till 32 mln. You shouldn`t worry about Wii sales.

p.s. maybe wii play - tottaly non-gamer casual game don`t represent the numbers of casual non-gamers on Wii(around 10 mln. now), but WHO knows? =)


Oh give it a rest already!  Until the Wii passes 32 million you're gonna keep toeing that line?  And we all know at that point you'll just think up of some other crazzy (pun intended) logic.

Also Wii play comes with a free wiimote.  Which is pretty much why it has the sales it does.  That means even the hardcore gamers will and do already pick it up.  Get a wiimote ($40 usually) and a throwaway game for $10... not a bad deal.  So your whole "Add Wii Play as that represents the casual non-gamers" theory is even more ludicrous than your usual posts.

I'll put this in a snide little remark with emoticons at the end like you are used to so you understand...

p.s. maybe your logic and rationale aren't completely ridiculous and you don't need to stop posting for the sake of every other forum members' sanity, but WHO knows? =) =) =)



Auron on 12 February 2008
sharky said:
360 is sold out everywhere right now. I'm guessing a shipment hit retail and quickly sold out last week hence the 360 bump.

360 is really kicking into high gear. Kind of funny for a console that was supposed to roll over and play dead for PS3 this year according to all the pundits.

 It is not sold out everywhere.  It is doing a lot better than the PS3 but it is not sold out.  Seems like PS3 will never attain NA.



trestres on 12 February 2008
Griffin said:
The Nintendo wii sales this week are nothing great, Nintendo will ship 1.8mil wiis this month, its just a matter of when they will sell. Nintendo wii's are also not selling out in most of Europe and in Japan, so over the next 2months the level of wii's in NA will grow.

I also see the PS3 continues higher sales weekly then the 360, this number will just grow larger as more and more games come out on the PS3. The 360 continues to fail at gaining fans outside of NA.

Hahaha jealousy took over you, what's great then? 1 million Wiis will be good, while when 100k ps3are sold this means THE START OF THE DOMINATION (AKA BEAST SALES)!!

Give me a break



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Renar on 12 February 2008
CrazzyMan said:
tokilamockingbrd said:
CrazzyMan said:



Wii sold 5 mln. in Japan, 1 mln. more then GC, thxn to casual non-gamers (2 mln. Wii play).
Wii sold 6.8 mln. in Europe, 2 mln. more then GC, thnx to casual non-gamers(3 mln. wii play) and casual gamers(SMG sales increased).
Wii sold 9.3 mln. in USA, 3,4 mln. less then GC.

So, Japan should very soon reach level(6 mln.), when all GC onwers bought Wii.
Europe is near reaching this level too(8 mln.).
Usa need to sell atleast 18 mln., when almost all GC owners will buy Wii.

So till 32 mln. You shouldn`t worry about Wii sales.

p.s. maybe wii play - tottaly non-gamer casual game don`t represent the numbers of casual non-gamers on Wii(around 10 mln. now), but WHO knows? =)


 Yes.  It's obvious.  Once all the GC owners have bought the Wii, only the casual gamers who buy the Wii for Wii Play will be the ones adding to its sales.

But you didn't go thru the math for them.  How many will it be?

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2666

Since *anybody* can see, in the last 20 weeks (week 43-63), Wii Play has sold 2x both in America and in Other.  Based on that rate, the casual gamers will buy another 7.5M by July, and 15M (doubling again) by Dec. 08.  And that just catching its stride.  In 2009, 90M+ are sold to casuals and by the end of 2010, 1.26B.   Who needs those GC Wii buyers?

Hey, what's this?  A cherry in February? 



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