leo-j said:
Beuli2 said:
leo-j said:
Metallicube said:
trangentspree said:
Wii is over 100k more than it was last year. :O |
THAT'S NSMB Wii. A new 2-D Mario platformer can have an amazing effect on the momentum of a console.
Now Nintendo just needs to prove they are still serious about the Wii with more games, particularly more motion plus and balance board games, and they need to start showing games for the vitality sensor as well. If they do this, the Wii will be an unstoppable force in 2010. If they continue to slack like in 2009 and put their trust in 3rd parties to fill the gaps (which they largely did not accomplish), sales could plummet to even worse numbers than 2009. NSMB Wii will help carry the console for a little while longer but even a game this good cannot carry it forever.
Monster Hunter 3 is a good start, I think this game will have a bigger effect in the west than people think.
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yea and the fact it got a price cut..
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When the price cut happened, it didn't help much, sales for the wii weren't different and were still bad against 2008. Only when NSMB Wii came it skyrocketed.
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It did help, before the price cut the wii was having trouble staying ahead of the 360, while the ps3 was eating chunks of market share. After the price cut, the wii went back to its top spot console wise.
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Actually before the Slim and all the price cuts (so during the summer) Wii was selling more than X360 and PS3 combined...after the slim and the consecutive X360 price drop it was selling bad (like you say, a bit over 360 and way under ps3) so a price cut was needed. But is this a wrong thing? I'm happy to see good sales for all the big 3 and you can't say really if the YoY Wii posted in the first two 2010 weeks is because of price cut or also software (like NSMBW)...I think that without NSMBW the Wii would not be over 400k this week, possibly also lower than that.
