Wii worst year for sales already? really???

[jarrod]

haxxiy 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.

$50 Pricecut, Just Dance, NSMBWii, America sales madness?

We have Wii Party, Just Dance 2, DKCR and now WSR bundled standard (ie: a value added 'drop' essentially).  The secondary releases this year are also way stronger for the 2nd half (Epic Mickey, Kirby EY, Goldeneye, NBA Jam, The Last Story, PokePark Wii, Inazuma Eleven Wii, Sonic Colors, New Carnival Games, Other M, etc), plus last year's and the first half's big evergreens are still legging it out (NSMBWii, Wii Fit Plus, Galaxy 2), something Wii didn't have going for it in 2009 (Animal Crossing CF and Wii Music being famous underperformers).

Overall, I'd agree that Wii this year doesn't have anything on the same scale as NSMB Wii in terms of a singular 'killer app' to drive hardware, but it's lineup is more varied and full and that probably offsets  that omission to some degree.  Plus, it still has NSMB now, which will still push huge units this holiday (probably another 1m in December alone).