| Desroko said: This one's my favorite. |
Yes, and I bothered to take a look at the numbers after that and I came up with this:
"I'm looking the numbers over and I think they could do 14-15, but that's about it.
The Wii worldwide weekly totals are always ~250k units sold, that gives us about 1 mil per month, but there's only 5 months left in the year and that, added to the current 9.5 mil, only gives us 14.5 mil.
Unless Nintendo is stockpiling (which makes no sense to me as they'll be missing out on potential sales of excellent games like Mario Strikers and Metroid Prime 3 because these games will be long forgotten by the time xmas with SSBB and Mario Galaxy rolls around), then 15 mil is probably what we can expect to see right now."
I'll readily admit I was being lazy when I first posted, largely due to having spent a while hunting down Wiis for friends, family and a girlfriend, but after I took a look at the numbers, I can confidently say that, unless Nintendo DOES increase supply, they won't make 17 mil, but that's based upon current sales trends.
I'd prefer it if they overshot and reached 20 million units sold by the end of the year, nearly doubling what MS will have sold by then, but I'm just not that optimistic when they still seem to be having manufacturing difficulties and problems meeting demand.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
