Immortal said:
thx1139 said:
To early to tell. BF weekend the Wii had the best deals. BestBuy had huge supplies and had all 3 colors available for $169.95 and other retailers had great deals as well. Since then the deals have been minimal. I suspect that Wii was frontloaded for this weekend in NA. So you saw Wii down YoY overall and only close because NA was up YoY and that was because of great deals.
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While that's probably true, Wii had been getting closer to last year's performand anyway and would have been only slightly under its 2009 performance had it not been for the release of NSMB the week before. I doubt it would have been too much off last year even without the deals and, with DKCR, DEM and the increasing effect of the Red Wii in the holidays, it should still get close to my prediction as I do have it hugely under last year for this week, which hasn't had many deals going on according to your observations. Anyway, there's pretty much no doubt it'll be up YOY in EMEAA because of the bundles and should be enough to counter the YOY losses in Japan and then some so Americas can be a little down as well.
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Why is it going to be up in EMEAA. It was down 75,000 from last year this past week. So all of a sudden it is going to go from down like 20% to up YoY. I dont get it.
Also some one thinks the Wii could have 50% market share next year. That is comical. This Holiday is the last that the Wii will have a chance at winning out right over one of the consoles. Reason being. Read the recent NY Times article below. More and more press will be saying things like this and more and more consumers will be aware of this. This year the word just started, but next year that sentiment will be prevail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/technology/personaltech/03KINECT.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=kinect&st=cse
