Wii worst year for sales already? really???

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Carl2291 said:

superchunk said:

kowenicki said:

Is it possible the Wii could have its worst full year ever... its only 800k above 2007 now!

YTD for Wii

2007 - 7,935,313  (plus extra 8,452,628 to end of year)

2008 - 11,384,682

2009 - 8,945,173  (plus extra 12,563,892 to end of year)

2010 - 8,727,181

This week in 2007 the Wii sold 285k.... this week the Wii sold 155k...

From 19th August to September 29th 2007 the Wii sold 1,419,710.  Can the Wii expect to get anywhere near that in the coming weeks?  i'd say around 1,000,000 is more likely, so 2010 will then be very close to 2007.

Is it possible and have sales fallen off a cliff?    Or will the holiday numbers save its bacon?

Talk about it.

All you need to do is look at 2009 to see how the rest of year will play out.

2009, the year that saw a pricecut of 20-25% along with the Wii's biggest game launch ever (NSMBWii).

This year the Wii wont have a pricecut, they have said before it's bad for the consumer. And I don't think any console so far has had pricecuts year after year. Nevermind the market leader.

This year the Wii wont have it's biggest launch of a game ever.

This year the Wii isn't the only console on the market with a motion controller option... And a lot of hype behind it.

This year the Wii isn't the console dominating leading UP to the holiday push. Infact, it's struggling to keep a grasp on 2nd place weekly.

Spot on, the interesting thing is, wii was in a similer position ISH this time last year. But like you said it doesn't have a price cut or NSMB.

But most importantly, it's no longer got any hype behind it. People are more excited for PS3/Move and 360/Kinect.

Brett has already said he estimates Kinect to be big.

Also, the X360 has now outsold the Wii EIGHT weeks in a row. And it aint gonna stop anytime soon.