No. Last year Wii's sales were dependant on supply, this year things have changed and now sales depend on demand. The wii is no longer in a dry slump, it has turned into a trend now, and the Wii is trending negatively and looks to be so until the 2nd half.
Demand is greatly down YoY as there's no renewed interest for people to buy Wii's. All Nintendo will release in the West for this 1st half were games that weren't even pushed with ads or simply last gen ports. Excitebots bombed, the NPC games are doing poorly. Punch-Out is the next hit Nintendo can have in their hands but with their recent releases I'm not that optimist anymore about how hard they can be pushing it.
I guess it's heart breaking for the guys at Monster Games to see their 2 year project sent to die like that, without ads or anything. How is that an incentive to other devs?
But on the sales side, Wii sales will be down for the first half about 1 - 2 million compared to 2008, and with a higher supply that is. This week was the worst week since 2007 for the Wii and back then Wii was supply constrained. NoA is making a terrible job by focusing mostly on new gamers. They keep on distancing themselves from the more traditional gamer as time passes by and that is not good at all, since that is not part of the Blue Ocean strategy.
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Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
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