We will have to wait and see before saying Wii sales will get boosted, so far it looks like it's on a downards trend and there's nothing significantly big that could help sales go up again until WSR which comes in late July, so until August sales could be down a lot. Probably the last 5 months of the year will be better, but the following two months could end up being abysmal in YoY comparisons.
January 2009 679,200
February 2009 753,000
March 2009 601,000
April 2009 340,000
May 2009 289,500
Wii
January 2008 274,000
February 2008 432,000
March 2008 721,000
April 2008 714,200
May 2008 675,100
June 2008 666,700
July 2008 555,000
August 2008 453,000
September 2008 667,000
October 2008 803,000
November 2008 2,040,000
December 2008 2,150,000
Total 10,151,000
YoY Jan +405K units
YoY Feb +321K units
YoY Mar -120K units
YoY Apr -374K units
YoY May -386K units
2009 YTD 2663K units
2008 YTD 2817K units
YoY Total -154K units
The trend looks to be a downards one and June could be the worst month of the year so far. June and July will no doubt be down from 2008, but August could be up once again. Then September and October could be also down, but depends on the release date of Wii Fit+. There's, unfortunately, nothing big besides Wii Fit+ until October/November, so sales could be down by 1 million or more until the Holidays. Then it's not very likely for the Wii to outperform November/December 2008. I expect Wii to end at 2 million less than 2008, at around 8 million for the year.
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Bets with Conegamer:
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.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
