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Mummelmann on 31 October 2010
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noname2200 said:
Mummelmann said:

"can never be considered to have lost momentum"

I'm sorry, Iwata, that is an insane statement and a false one at that. Is he denying that the Wii, that previously outsold the competition combined now has been beaten by both individually for many, many consecutive weeks? The two companies he doesn't even consider competitors because they're so far behind and inferior has outsold his product by a great deal lately and one of them is only trailing one million behind in total sales for the year so far but was utterly dominated last year.This is the very definition of losing momentum in my book.  I love Iwata, I do, but sometimes I wonder if he has snorted something with good old Crazy Ken!

Context matters.  In this case, the preceding paragraph shows what he means.

"Iwata also laid out comparisons showing cumulative U.S. sales for the Wii 23 percent higher than those for the best-selling PS2 system at this same point in its lifecycle. U.S. Wii sales for the first three quarters of the fifth year of availability were also 22 percent higher that similar sales for the PS2.  

"I hope each and all these charts will convince you that Wii, as a machine set to welcome its fifth holiday sales season, can never be considered to have lost momentum," Iwata said.  "

The comment is thus an accurate, if incomplete, one.


I saw the context, it is still false, it has lost tremendous amounts of momentum compared to last years and especially compared to the competition. His insistence on comparing the graphs with the longlived PS2 puzzles me, the Wii competes with the PS360 and the assured hardware record the Wii would set (selling more lifetime than the PS2) just a year or less back in time has now become moot headshakes and disbelief, it will never reach that goal at, showing that;

A: All projections from both Nintendo and Vgchartz analysts were wrong, how many times has TheSource assured everyone that the Wii is well on its way to easily beating the PS2's lifetime sales?

B: Going by point A, it has to have lost a whole lot of momentum for all past projections (including Nintendo's internal fiscal ones, lowered two times in under a year) to have suddenly been rendered comepetely worthless.

Edit; Iwata also adresses the US only market here, yet another factor making his statements confusing at best. Its not doing so hot in Japan and is being soundly beaten in EMEAA.