Nintendo sales down 40%, profit 60%?

[Manos]

Words Of Wisdom said:

Manos said:

Whoa. I was not expecting that kind of drop.

"For the quarter, Nintendo sold 2.23 million Wiis worldwide, just 43 percent of the 5.17 million it sold for the prior year's first quarter."

That is insane. What do you think?

I think the DSi has done a decent job of keeping the DS numbers from being much much worse. 

I also think it was inevitable that sales would plummet.  We've just come from about two years where it was a struggle to find a Wii on a store shelf to a year where it... well... isn't.  I don't think the new sales figures are insane, I think the sales figures of the past two years were insane and this year is just the opposite.

I thought about that too. Wii sold like crazy when it was not always available. Maybe it sold like that because it was not always available.