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[Squilliam]

Zucas said:

Squilliam said:

DMeisterJ said:
Wii is up some, still supply constrained (?)

PS3 up considerably from last week (~18 percent) Why?

The Wii has been pretty much down for a month... Supply constrained doesn't explain it so much because of the stead supply for the previous month and the fact that Nintendo has increased production. I hate to say anything like this but could the Wii be reaching some sort of saturation point with its current market?

 

Well it was supposed to reach a point of saturation sometime in the summer, August probably being that month.  But when it reached one we were expecting mroe around 150k a week type things.  I don't think this is that point of saturation considering such a dropoff wouldn't fit any trends to date.  But who knows if we are even getting Wii sales numbers right.

 

To be honest its hard to say, because the PS3 and Xbox 360 are being wacky as well its hard to infer anything from the sales trend of the Wii at this point. Steady or increasing sales for the PS360 would indicate possibly there some sort of saturation in the Wii specifical market segments.

At the moment I'll just throw up my hands and say that it'll take another 2 weeks or so of data to really indicate anything. Theres just too much noise, and its hard to even say that the data is accurate given that there are shortages popping up in different places which throws everything off, like with the Xbox 360 sales being overtracked not too long ago for a similar reason IMO.