EEDAR: Wii to outsell Xbox/PS3 this holiday

Thursday, September 24, 2009

EEDAR have sent out a PR email stating their opinion on the Wii price cut. Details are given below.

-EEDAR believes Wii will outsell other all other home consoles this holiday

-Weekly increase of 40% for Wii through the holidays

New hardware (WiiHD) would pose a problem with consumer and publishers

-Price cuts are pre-emptive strikes to capture a larger share of mainstream and casual audience before Microsoft and Sony release their motion controls

-Increased penetration of MotionPlus a likely priority for Nintendo

-Wii sales down 53% from Q1 2009 to Q2 2009

--------------------------- source - email at link below http://nintendodpad.com/Welcome/News/Entries/2009/9/24_EEDAR%3A_Wii_to_outsell_Xbox_PS3_this_holiday.html

Well i was right about market share security in preperation for motion control competition. Im going to retire.

I disagree. I don't think Nintendo feels the Sony wand or Natal are threats at all.

megaman we still love you

Down 53%, ouch.

When you are on the top, there's no where else to move. Saturation happens. New price point will expand the market share on Wii and as far as HD, I'm sure if Nintendo was doing it, then they have developer kits out for developers. Their would be spec leaks all over the internet. WiiHD would be awesome but is not likely. Wii will outsell the others and it's obvious like always. Cheaper to own. Easy to use. Wii Fit and Wii Sports were easy to implement. Who's spending an extra $100 a console for motion games of casual use just to buy video games that are an additional $10 above normal for each HD title. Sony's downfall has always been the cell processor and blu-ray drive. They pushed the gaming envelope to much for this generation and expected to much money from people for that push. I wish them luck but just can't help but laugh at the imitator who called their role model console a "fad" and "gimmick". Best of luck with that PSwiimote. Now Natal will be a different beast all together. Can't wait to see what comes out with that.

@wiifan75, well thats an interesting point that the article raises. Will the cheaper HD consoles force game prices back down to $50 so they simply compete with the Wii's audience? Are motion controls going to contribute also?

From TGS today, Sony actually seems somewhat committed to providing good software with the Motion Controller of theirs, though i still have my doubts about Natal.

Either way, do we know Marketshare is a priority for them, as opposed to actual sales? It doesn't seem to be their style. But then again, they've been approaching the price-cut in a very red-ocean way, what with announcing it during Sony's TGS and all.

Don't see game prices going down.  Nintendo made it a policy for keeping prices standard and sub-par titles at a lower price point.  Quality titles are only allowed the $50 price point.  Whether it's stayed true is another story but I know when I go into a store, I see some games that have short game length times being priced lower than the better titles.  They even show the standard by selling Wii Fit Plus for only $20.  That game will easily sell millions and they could charge more like other companies do but they are not.  I like that from a company.  No unintended wallet gouging.  HD consoles already know that their users will pay a lot of money for a title.  ODST just showed that again.  All the complaints out there about it being less than a full game and over 2million in sales already?  But those same people were happy paying $500 and $600 for a game console so companies know those people have money to burn through the winter apparently.  Or will work their two jobs to pay for their gaming.  I don't see any price constraints on those casual titles for HD consoles.  Wii casual users won't be making that jump into that unknown.  Every relative I have has a Wii in their house.  The only Xbox and PS3 in the family is a PS3 for my nephew who loves FPS games and my cousin with a 360 because his son wanted one for a game that wasn't on Wii.  The xbox collects dust from little use.  The PS3 was to replace a 3rd 360 that suffered RRoD like previous 2 and the 360 was only for Gears of War game.  No one else is even looking at other consoles.  Too much money before.  Even now it's no concern after price drop.  It looks more like depreciation instead of great savings.  It's an old technology already just like the others.  This generation is done.  These "add ons" are going to be the small jump into our next gen I think.  10 year life cycle is becoming 15 year life cycle because of add ons.  But hey, it's my 2 cents.