Is Wii Sports Resort lifting up Wii HW?

[MidnightRider85]

stof said:

MidnightRider85 said:

Mr Khan said:

"Not yet. Come back in 6-8 weeks"

 

-Iwata

     Well, in 6 to 8 weeks, they will most likely see that WSR isn't really lifting Wii sales that much, so they'll plan to have WSR as the new bundled game with the Wii along with Wii Motion + and a new price point of $225.00 that will lift the Wii up through the holidays and result in WSR ending up with impressive sales data at the end of the day.

Looks to me like it has impressive sales data at the start of the day.

      Not really.  It didn't even lift the Wii over PSP in Japan.  It took MH3 to do that.  And, I don't think Wii console sales have been over 300,000 a week since its release.  EDIT:  The July 26th to August 2 week it was over 340,000 (probably MH3's first week), but last week it was back down around 250,000 range, and it will probably be going down in future weeks until closer to the holidays unless Nintendo makes some adjustments somewhere.  For all the talk about these games getting big boosts after they've been out 6 to 8 weeks, it really hasn't held true for many of their games since MK Wii and Wii Fit were released.  None of the high profile games since then have really had extended bumps.  Punchout, etc, none had big bumps after they were out 6 to 8 weeks.