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09tarheel on 13 September 2009
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I've been making the "Change in Sales Game of the Day" threads because my favorite part of this site is the sales data and discussion, so I wanted to do my small part in encouraging that.  But now I've realized that if I keep making new one of those threads every day, I will be out of games to compare soon.  So I'm working on coming up with some other ideas that I can use to make regular threads about. The "Battle of the Day" threads will be less original, as I will just be comparing two games, that are related in some way, and that I think could potentially have similar sales and then discuss which one people think will sell more and why.  So now that I'm done rambling about the point of this thread here are today's two games. 

Wii Fit              vs.            Wii Play

 

                                                                                

 

Description: Today's competitors have a number of things in common; they are the  two biggest sellers on current gen home consoles, they are both part of the "Wii__" series, and they are both bundled with an accessory/controller. So let's look at the current sales for each game.

 

Column1 Last Weeks sales Last Month's Average sales Total sales
Wii Fit 111,146 108,368 21,826,461
Wii Play 42,144 44476.5 24,116,355
Difference 69,002 63,891 -2,289,894

So you can see that Wii Play has a little over 2 million lead over Wii Fit, but Wii Fit is selling more weekly than Wii Play.

Column Based on Last Week's sales Based on last month's average weekly sales
# of weeks until Wii Fit outsells Wii Play 33.19 35.84

 So based on that information it might seem inevitable that Wii Fit will catch up with Wii Play, but there are a number of important factors to consider, the biggest of which is the upcoming release of Wii Fit Plus which will surely slow the sales of Wii Fit. Also Wii Play's sales seem to be more dependent on the number of Wiis sold, so sales should increase greatly going into the holiday season when console sales increase dramatically.  So what do you think? Will Wii Fit ever outsell Wii Play?  Vote in the poll and then let us know what you voted for and your reasoning behind your choice.