Wii is now up YoY in every region. Significant?

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Demotruk said:

RageBot said:
Just like the 360 was up YOY in 2009, huh? :P

Remember, a big precentage of the year's sales is in the last quarter.

Yes, I quite understand that. I don't think Nintendo is gonna have another NSMB this December.

 

But that's not what this is about. This is about the fact that Wii is now selling better than it was this time last year in every region. If Wii is in decline, that shouldn't be happening. The truth is that key software has turned things around, and it was the lack of key software that had Wii begin to slow down in late 2008 and significantly so in early 09. More key software stalled the decline in the latter half of 09, but now it's reversed.

Technically since 2008 was another complete sellout year, which made Nintendo finally up production more than they wanted to, 2008 couldn't technically "slow down", now the point that number people going MUST... HAVE... WII!!!! (also known as demand) declined that's debatable, in fact I'd have anecdotal evidence that would point to that claim, both customers coming into my store and the online fandom, but it's harder to prove without some hard stats.

The slowdown didn't technically start to happen till supply started to meet demand early 2009, when supplies were upped from Nintendo's factories. And the lack of key software started to catch up, but now things seemed to hit that balance and they seem to want to do a strong push this year, so its a wait and see situation if you ask me.