Do you think the Wii is losing Stamina?

[saicho]

Ail said:

Yes and I'm not basing myself on Japan only.
This week Others number is the lowest week for Wii in Others since mid March 2008

Q2 2009 for the Wii looks to be significantly lower than Q2 2008 and the Wii will probably loose any progress it had made in Q1 by the end of June...

Lets look at April.

April 2008 :

NA : 623k

Others : 654k

April 2009 :

Others : 376k in 3 weeks, probably 500k for the month.

NA : 245k for 2 weeks, probably 500k for the months.

20-25% down for NA+Others ( disregarding Japan which is down over 50% so far).

And I don't think May or June will be any better, but more like April...

May 2008 :

Others : 900k

NA : 1.245k

June 2008 :

Others : 639k

NA : 713k

 

Being optimistic I can see the Wii selling 600k in each territory in May and another 600k in June, which would make May be down Worldwids roughly 40% and June down 10%....

 

 

Wii is actually doing better in Other this month since the market share this month actually goes up comparing to last year. (46.53% to 48.31%)

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 04th Apr 2009 to 18th Apr 2009:

Console	Wii	PS3	X360
Total Others	375,957	183,375	218,910

Wii/PS3/360 = 48.31%/23.56%/28.13%

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Apr 2008 to 03rd May 2008:

Console	Wii	PS3	X360
Total Others	869,364	568,638	430,326

Wii/PS3/360 = 46.53%/30.44%/23.03%

 

As NA numbers, there is no way for Nintendo to outsell last year when SSBB, MK and Wii Fit launch in March, April and May. However, with WSR coming in July and a better summer lineup than last year, the summer sale would be promising.