Wii in 2009 vs Wii in 2008, a tribute to Crazzyman.

[trestres]

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 28th Dec 2008 to 05th Sep 2009:

Console	Wii
Total	9,800,202

 

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 30th Dec 2007 to 06th Sep 2008:

 

Console	Wii
Total	12,811,036

 

This week -144,828 units =(((((((

Wii is DOWN 3,010,834 units from 2008!  =(

Note: Sales are down 3 million YoY, and by next week it will be down 4 million FY over FY.

Wii sales are continually going down, this week sales are back into the sub 20k levels in Japan, while in the USA it was outsold by both the HD consoles. No, GH5 didn't help sales and The Beatles Rockband won't either, since they are all multiplat games.

We will have to wait until the first week of October to see if Wii sales stop going down, when Wii Fit + releases, but then again, that game is more expensive than the original Wii Fit (100$ vs 90$) so I doubt it will have an effect on hardware. It will mostly sell to old Wii Fit owners since as a standalone game it will cost 20$ and that's easy to afford. I'd say balance board sales will slow down because of this instead of going up.

Then what the PS3 did could not be expected by almost anyone. It had a monstrous increase, due to a 100$ pricecut and a redesign. 360 is also going up in weekly sales due to the price cuts, almost catching up to the Wii, and sales will only go up until ODST is finally launched. So a price cut would help Nintendo, no matter what people say.

Finally I have to say that Iwata's theory of Wii going up 6 to 8 weeks after WSR launch is a total failure. The game is already out for 6 weeks in the USA, 7 weeks in Europe and more than 10 weeks in Japan, and sales are going down week after week, and coming really close to the lowest figures of the year. Wii sold 182k units this week, making it the second worst week of the year, only 7k ahead of the worst week. By next week, Wii could have it's worst week of since April 1st 2007, when it sold 150k units (Lowest week of the Wii ever).


@Mr Khan: Nintendo doesn't expect 65 million by March 2010, they expect more than 75 million.