Wall Street Journal: Nintendo starts to cool down

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aderoche said:

NJ5 said:

hanafuda said:

NJ5 said:

The Wii got outsold in one territory for two months, during a software drought and some huge games for the competition. Stop the presses!

 

 

Wii sales in Japan for Q1 2009 are down more than 50% compared to Q1 2008. That's cooling down.

It's cooling down in Japan (due to known problems which can and will be fixed), but improving everywhere else. No reason to claim Nintendo as a whole is cooling down.

 

It would appear to be cooling down in others as well. 2nd quater 2008 averaged 180k sales. Now it is dipping into the 120s without a turnaround it will be down 500k+ sales YOY in quater 2.

http://www.vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=Total+Other&cons2=PS3&reg2=Total+Other&cons3=X360&reg3=Total+Other&start=39453&end=39908

 

You probably should wait for the end of 2Q to make the comparion. In March 2008 (5 weeks), Wii sold between 106,000 and 133,000 units. The sales only picked up after mid April.

On the other hand, one home console is down more than 20% in Others in March.