I'm going to give the same response to this thread as I did the last one, when someone claimed a week ago that Wii sales were declining in Japan. If you look at the actual numbers, for more than just a couple of weeks, you'll see that the Wii numbers constantly fluctuate up and down based on supply - but over the long haul, they are quite stable on average. To demonstrate, using all numbers from here at vgchartz:
Aug 11: 86.5k
Aug 04: 91.9k
Average (2 weeks): 89.2k
July 28: 95.2k
July 21: 97.9k
July 14: 91.1k
July 07: 83.2k
Average (4 weeks): 91.9k
June 30: 96.8k
June 23: 90.7k
June 16: 96.9k
June 09: 100.1k
June 02: 93.3k
Average (5 weeks): 95.6k
May 26: 87.6k
May 19: 103.8k
May 12: 124k
May 05: 131k
Average (4 weeks): 111.6k
Apr 28: 134.6k
Apr 21: 88.8k
Apr 14: 58.9k
Apr 07: 54.0k
Average (4 weeks): 84.1k
Mar 31: 54.7k
Mar 24: 58.8k
Mar 17: 65.3k
Mar 10: 70.2k
Mar 03: 81.3k
Average (5 weeks): 66.1k
Aside from the month of May (a bit of an outlier due to heavy supply), Wii sales have been holding pretty steady at a weekly average in the 85k to 95k region. However you feel about the recent "decline" to "only" 90,000 units per week, sales are still vastly higher than they were earlier this year in March and April.
If you want to look at this and say that the Wii is no longer in demand, or in decline, feel free to go ahead. But the data does not back up those assertions in the least.
End of 2008 totals: Wii 42m, 360 24m, PS3 18.5m (made Jan. 4, 2008)







