WSR = 25K BUMP for wii in Aug over july , is this ENOUGH?

[Demotruk]

trestres said:
@Demotruk: 11 weeks have passed in Japan, and sales are going down on a weekly basis. 7 weeks have passed in Europe and sales are going down as well. 6 weeks have passed in the Americas and sales are consistently going down too. That was a theory he had, and we can mark it as wrong already. Plus he gave that as an answer to investors, so he will have to come out next quarter and clarify this.

WSR had an almost null effect in HW, now there's only 2 games left capable of lifting HW sales, but I'm afraid they're not enough for them to come close to the projected number, so we can say that what WSR did was not enough by a wide margin.

I believe either it or Monster Hunter (or both) are in fact having an effect on hardware in Japan.

 

Compare it to earlier this year when the Wii was doing abysmally. I'll use the first week of April because there were no significant releases on this week or the one a year previous (it was the week before Mario Kart launched last year). That time last year Wii was on ~45,000. This year at that time Wii had collapsed to 16,000. Compare it to last week which was 5 weeks after any significant release, the year before it was ~30,000, this year it was ~24,000, and that week is in a seasonal low. Clearly the decline is nowhere near as bad as it was earlier in the year, and the two things that can take credit for that are MH3 or WSR (likely WSR moreso). They haven't managed to offset the overall decline, but that's not to say they're not having an important effect.