Here is the big picture guys:
Wii Sales Q1 and H1 by Year, Region and Total
I've included Q2 extrapolations in italics based on the current numbers. Here is the thing though - we know that at least some boosts are possible/likely from the following items/events/games in Q2 from the extrapolated rates:
- Golden Week (Japan)
- Monster Hunter G (Japan)
- Wii Sports Resort (Japan
- Motion Plus (Americas/Others)
- Punch Out (Americas/Others...Brett suggested it could do 5m worldwide in a conversation earlier)
- Desperation for women to get fit (EA Active/Wii Fit May-June boost)
- USA Tax Refunds (I know I get mine in May - guess where its going: games)
- End of school in Europe/Japan/Americas usually results in a minor boost in May/June for all systems
- Movie games - Xmen, Harry Potter, Ghostbusters etc - sometimes these games breakout (Americas)
- At a more macro-level the Pound-Yen exchange rate could recover allowing Nintendo to drop the Wii price in the UK to where it was before
- Tiger Woods could perform real well with Motion Plus
| Q2 Wk 14-26 | Q2 2007 | Q2 2008 | Q2 2009 (1.33 wks) |
| Total | 3,131,651 | 5,424,313 | 3,900,000 |
| America | 1,381,721 | 2,583,037 | 2,022,475 |
| Japan | 883,268 | 647,923 | 213,369 |
| Others | 866,662 | 2,193,353 | 1,694,089 |
|
Q1/ Wk 1-13 |
Q1 2007 |
Q
Q1 2008 |
Q1 2009 |
| Total | 2,795,981 | 4,048,358 | 5,259,600 |
| America | 1,094,229 | 1,553,281 | 2,632,696 |
| Japan | 1,028,813 | 1,069,039 |
412,601 |
| Others | 672,939 | 1,426,038 |
2,214,303 |
|
H1/WKs 1-26 |
H1 2007 |
H1 2008 |
2009 (14.33 wks) |
| Total | 5,927,632 | 9,472,671 | 5,692,217 |
| America | 2,475,950 | 4,136,318 | 2,788,271 |
| Japan | 1,912,081 | 1,716,962 | 429,014 |
| Others | 1,539,601 | 3,619,391 |
2,474,932 |
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