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Moongoddess256 on 05 March 2008
Sullla said:
Last post in this thread, then you guys can go ahead and have fun predicting.

So... you really think the Wii will sell 400k or more next week, in America alone? After adding in Europe and Japan sales, that would put the Wii well over 500k, closing in on 600k. In mid-March. Umm.... OK. You might want to keep in mind that the Wii has never topped 450k in a non-holiday week, and it's only bettered 350k twice. But hey, since Smash Brothers is going to sell 3m copies week one, and better the Halo launch, I guess that's no problem, right?

Apologies for being sarcastic, I'm just trying to point out how carried away some of you are getting.

dude, you do realize that there are severe wii shortages in NA right?

 

The amount of wiis sold will be... however much the stores put on the shelves. The question is whether or not there have been wiis stockpiled for brawls release. We have had several weeks of wiis unaccounted for considering the 1.8 mil a month wii production rate.



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kingofwale on 05 March 2008

wow, there will be some MASSIVE crow fest at the end of all this. That's all I'm saying.

1.53 million



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Chrizum on 05 March 2008
kingofwale said:
wow, there will be some MASSIVE crow fest at the end of all this. That's all I'm saying.

1.53 million

I know what you mean, these guys are all insanely optimistic!

tabsina on 06 March 2008

1.44m software, 250k hardware



sanjon on 06 March 2008

2milyon 460k hardware



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flagship on 06 March 2008
clouette said:
Everyone talking about supply & demand should learn chemistry. Given 2 chemicals, i.e. supply and demand, if the sales, i.e. rate of reaction, is directly proportional to supply and directly proportional to demand, which is true in this case,

sales = k x supply x demand

However when you saturate the beaker, i.e. the market, with infinity amount of one of the chemical, i.e. demand here, then rate of reaction will only be directly proportional to the other chemical, i.e. supply.

Therefore, sales = k x supply

So to all those saying Brawl, MKWii or Wii Fit may or may not increase the demand of Wii, it is pointless. Because demand is already infinite. So sales on Wii will only depends on supply for now, until Nintendo decides to flood the beaker, i.e. market, with a very huge supply of Wii. Then we will see the normal market situation of sales = k x supply x demand.

Full stop.

Except of course that ALL chemical recations go in both directions.... A+B ->AB   AB-> A+B in this case with the rate of the forward reaction being very much greater than the reverse. 

 So somewhere out there people must be returning copies of brawl and Wiis to the store! :p

 



damkira on 06 March 2008

Brawl would be at ~1300k.

Wii is tough, but since it has picked up so much since last week I would agree with you at around 450k.  



NJ5 on 06 March 2008

@Sullla: I'm counting on some retailers to have done a little stockpiling of their own. Besides, Wii sales have been so low (compared to production levels) that there must be tons of Wiis stored somewhere.

It's not known whether Nintendo will release a lot of them, but unknowns are the fun part of making predictions!



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Astrodust on 06 March 2008

So anyways I was at EB games earlier today and the guy working there said they got 400 preorders for the game. Then I was at BestBuy and the guy told me they were getting around 800 copies of the game. Bestbuy isn't taking reservations or preorders I think. I'm sure Futureshop is the same. So if every Bestbuy and Futureshop get in 500-1000 copies the number is going to be huge figuring that these numbers aren't part of the 1 million preorders. I am going to say 2.45 million copies of Brawl and 475k Wii consoles will be sold.



 

 

NJ5 on 06 March 2008

Astrodust said:
So anyways I was at EB games earlier today and the guy working there said they got 400 preorders for the game. Then I was at BestBuy and the guy told me they were getting around 800 copies of the game

(...) 


I hope that's the case in every store :)

 



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