Iwata (not laughing): ' We failed with the Wii'

[Ail]

Kenology said:

Ail said:
2008 sales were 24.2 million based on VGChartz.
2009 sales are tracking to be around 20-21 millions

2010 sales will be bellow 20 millions...( hard to estimate before 2009 holydays is over, if I had to guess right now I would say bellow 18 millions).

This is all calendar year not fiscal.

I'd take that bet.  No way sales are gonna be that low.  I'm not sure they're gonna beat 2008's numbers, but they're definitely gonna beat 2009's.

You do realize that 18 millions console sold in any given year is actually not low ?

 

For starter Q1 2010 will be significantly lower than Q1 2009 even with NSMBWii.

Q1 2009 benefited from Wii stocks being totally depleted during the Chrismas period and on top of regular console sales, Nintendo spent the whole quarter building up retailers inventory....( coudn't find a Wii in the US on January 2nd 20009 but at the end of the quarters most retailers had Wii pyramids standing on display)