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

[trestres]

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 28th Dec 2008 to 26th Dec 2009:

Console	Wii
Total	21,170,070

 

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 30th Dec 2007 to 27th Dec 2008:

 

Console	Wii
Total	24,141,759

This week +601,703 =))))))))

Wii is DOWN 2,971,689 units from 2008!  =(

Note: The calendar year 2009 has ended. Wii ended dwon roughly 3 million units down from 2008, which is not a bad thing at all, since 2008 was a record year. But it does tell Nintendo a few things. SW droughts are really harmful to the mome ntum of a console and to combat them, drastic measures had to be taken, like dropping the price to maintain flat sales for the remainder of the year. Nintendo needs to plan their release schedule more thoroughly and then try to focus a little bit more on the Wii, considering most of the momentum was lost because of the lack of 1st party titles. 3rd parties were never a contributor really, they are just a random happening and Nintendo shouldnt depend on them to drive HW sales. I do hope that Q1 is not an indicator on how Nintendo plans to fill the year, because it's too weak so far.

A year has gone, so I will continue updating with numbers from the FY. We will see if Nintendo reaches the 20 million they forecasted last October and see how close they end compared to last FY when they shipped 26 million units of HW.