Wiik 42 2007, The sale of the Wii last week

[Just_Ben]

Hi all. It is time for the next Wiik. Lets start, shall we?

America – or a lot of debuts but nothing hits

The Wii sold 118 thousands units this week, thats up 20% from last week. Even with that rise it was again outsold by the 360 in the U.S.

Software Top 10:

Place	LW	Name	This Week	Last Week	Change	Total Sold
4	8	Wii Play	63,357	54,007	17.3%	2,565,598
21	23	Mario Party 8	20,590	22,771	-9.6%	1,286,278
29	27	MySims	15,040	18,457	-18.5%	131,789
33	28	Carnival Games	14,505	17,171	-15.5%	181,096
36	11	Bleach:Shattered Blade	12,531	37,517	-66.6%	50,048
41	46	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption	11,595	11,524	0.6%	463,711
47	42	DDR: Hottest Party	9,877	11,954	-17.4%	60,179
53	58	Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition	9,131	9,986	-8.6%	434,298
54	60	Legend of Zelda: TP	9,083	9,891	-8.2%	1,995,383
59	-	Tony Hawk Proving Ground	8,419	-	-	8,419

#1 The Wii got a lot of releases this week, but not a single one had high sales. The best one was Tony Hawk, debut on #10 on the Wii and #59 overall.

#2 With the raise of the Wii, Wii Play rose nearly 20%. It just keeps its attach rate to every new Wii

#3 ioi corrected the database so again: Next week Legend of Zelda should hit 2 million in the Americas

#4 The Wii Software is still overall flat, despite a lot of releases. The Wii has currently only 1 Title in the Top 10/20 and 7 Titles in the Top 50.

Outlook: Next week Zack&Wiki hit the shelves and will start the holiday lineup (more later in this post). I personal expect the Hardware to go down next week. Nothing special happened this week, but maybe some shops put some extra Wii on the shelves because of the high number of releases. 100-110 k sounds realistic to me.

Japan

There were 30 thousands Wii sold. Thats 8k more than last week (+33%). Like in the Americas there is no obvious reason for the rise. Maybe the bad times for all hardware begins to be over or some Wii\\\'s got sold along the PS3.

Top 10 Software:

Place	LW	Name	This Week	Last Week	Change	Total Sold
11	18	Wii Sports	13,079	10,799	21.1%	2,158,823
16	23	Wii Play	10,687	8,922	19.8%	1,722,249
24	16	Mario Party 8	8,790	12,496	-29.7%	874,220
30	15	Dragonball Z Sparking!Meteor	7,124	12,964	-45.0%	58,249
31	27	Mario Strikers Charged	6,760	7,790	-13.2%	79,040
49	39	Powerful Major League 2	3,882	5,559	-30.2%	15,932
60	58	MySims	2,814	3,531	-20.3%	19,655
73	67	Kekkaishi:Kokubourou No Kage	2,106	2,647	-20.4%	18,256
77	85	Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree	1,892	1,736	9.0%	266,354
81	77	Powerful Pro Baseball 14	1,719	1,991	-13.7%	126,277

#1 With the higher hardware sales, Wii Sports and Wii Play sales raised

#2 Big Brain Academy also raised this week

#3 Software sales are flat for the Wii in Japan, but not as in America. At least 2 titles are in the top 10 and 6 titles are in the Top 50.

Outlook: Next week hardware could rise : Maybe some are worried they don\\\'t get one at the Wii release of the year: Super Mario Galaxy. And there are some releases that could be hit in Japans. I would expect 38 thousands Wii sold next week in Japan.

Others

The Wii sold 70 thousands units this week (-5k/-6%). Despite the decline it has beaten the PS3 this week. At this point I would be glad if someone could point me where I can easily find software charts for the main Europe country\\\'s, so I can extend Europe with some software info.

 

European Software:

UK:

#1 Big brain Academy is still selling and taking #1 on the Wii and #9 overall

#2 Tiger Woods has very good legs, and is on place #4 for Wii (+3) and #23 overall

#3 The Wii has 3 Titles in the Top 20. So the Software sales on the Wii are good.

Other countries:

I need links to charts to put here Infos about others countries.

Outlook: Next week I expect higher numbers for the Wii: MP3 is hitting Europe. We have no update on the availability of the Wii in UK, but I would expect it is sold out there. The decline this week came from UK, which was down 6 thousand. Maybe shops are holding back some units for MP3 this week. I would say the Wii should be around 90 thousand units sold in Others.

 

Overall:

After the NPD number release Reggie said about MS and Halo: "They fired their bullet and our gun is loaded and ready to fire throughout the holidays". So I wondered how loaded is it? How many Bullets are there, and how big? I went to IGN and made a list of all upcoming releases this year I think could see decent sales. This is what I came up with:

CW	Europe	Japan	America
43	Metroid Prime 3	Zack & Wiki	Guitar Hero 3
No More Heroes	Zack&Wiki
Rayman Raving Rabits 2
44	The Simpsons Game	Super Mario Galaxy	Manhunt 2
The Simpsons Game
45	LEGO Star Wars		LEGO Star Wars
	Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
46			Super Mario Galaxy
		Lara Croft Tomb Raider
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2	We Love Golf	Medal of Honor Heroes 2
Super Mario Galaxy	Nights	Need for Speed ProStreet
		Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
		Resident Evil:UC
		Links Crossbow Training
47	Guitar Hero 3	Mario Sonic @ Olympics	Dragon Ball Z
Mario Sonic @ Olympics	Trauma Center: New Blood
48	Resident Evil: UC	Naruto Clash of The Ninja Revolution	-
Need for Speed ProStreet	Wii Fit
	Super Swing Golf
49	Pokemon Battle Revolution
Zack&Wiki	-	Brother in Arms
Brother In Arms
50	Lara Croft Tomb Raider		Super Swing Golf
51	-	-	-
52	-	Animal Crossing Wii	-

It looks like their gun is not only full, it is full of 9 mm. Big Time. From this week on, there is no week without a big release in at least one territory. Calender week 46 will be a hard week for Wii fans wallets in the US, with 4 possible chart toppers in the U.S. and some other middle profiled games. Holiday season should start with next week numbers with Zack&Wiki in the U.S. and MP3 in EU. I would say next week is the start of the crazy numbers the Wii will pull out of its bucket this fall. On the list are still release dates missing (Japan: Deca Sporta, America: Manhunt 2, Medal of Honor, Europe: Link\\\'s Crossbow Training)

Personal side note:

Yesterday I had the guys from work over to play Poker. After playing poker I showed them my Wii, because I want to do a Wii Sports league at work. I noticed some things:

#1 I need 2 more Wiimotes, so I can play Tennis with four players

#2 I need more space so I can play Tennis with four players

#3 Wii Sports is really the damn best pack in ever. I think I just sold Nintendo 2 Wii\\\'s in the long run, because it is so much fun. One of those will go to a person who never even looked at a VG console in its life.