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koffieboon said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
mrstickball said:
Again. I just showed you that including Wii Sports on US sales, the Wii has sold just below 16,000,000 software titles on the majority of the systems (around 4.7m units) between Japan and the US/NA. Nintendo was already quoted as giving Europe and other areas around 1.9m units. So we have 1.9m official units as of late March in which Nintendo (as you are stating) has sold 13m units on. Now, answer me: did 13m units of software sell on 1.9m units? We have the NPD data to confirm US sales, we have Famitsu/MC data to confirm J-sales of the games, which again, add upto 16m units (or less). Those 16m units INCLUDE sales since April (to which Nintendo hasn't counted), so it could be anywhere from 1-2m units less. So we have anywhere from 13-15m units of software that is unaccounted for, to goto a region where only 1.6~1.9m hardware units sold.
The 29M sold software figure is indeed mentioned by Nintendo, however these are the numbers sold by Nintendo, not the number of sales to consumers.
Now, that would make me assume (the article was cited in this quote), that the 29m unit figure is the number of sold software to retailers, and not consumers (meaning around 5-10m s/w units are unsold in the 3 territories)

 

That quote you reference was written by koffieboon, and wasn't from any of the articles, that was his comment that he believed it was referring to retailers and not consumers.

 

As to your other point you have NPD and Media create/Famitsu data, so yeah you have the US and Japan tracking service data, but there are still quite a few territories not covered by those tracking services, Europe, the rest of America and Austrailia, now i'm not saying that equals 13 million, but you haven't shown me yet the data that says that its less, like I said, show me the proof that its not, that's all i'm waiting for, some evidence that you have the real WW software and the real attach rates


I already provided a breakthrough of the 29M to the 3 regions, it's 14.5M for the Americas, 6.1M for Japan and 8.2M for the other regions. So it is impossible that 13M is sold in the other region since Nintendo only shipped 8.2M units of software to that region. Anyway, NPD data and Media Create don't get close to 14.5M and 6.1M at the end of march, so to me it is clear those are shipped numbers. 


 NPD is only US, no all of America, and Media create has Wii software sales well over 5 million, so there is no certainty that those are only shipped, i'm not saying that it isn't just shipped but like I said I want to be shown hard proof, not just speculation , basically I want one of you guys to show the total WW Wii software sales and attach rate, so far I haven't seen it.



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)