| thx1139 said: 1. Oct 2008 - Wii sold 1.603M Oct 2007 - Wii sold 1.05M 2. And many casuals just werent aware of Kinect and Move yet. The more time, the more time they try at friends house (remember the majority of Kinects and Moves bought were not used until December 25th). The more time that goes by the more others will be exposed to Kinect and Move. Not to mention that all the deals the Wii received were during the holiday buying season. Those special deals drove a lot of extra sales. The press I am talking about is not gaming press I am talking about the mainstream press and the mainstream press was good to Nintendo. Now they are saying Kinect out Wii's the Wii. 3. Last summer Wii had Super Mario Galaxy 2 and dont give me crap that wasnt high profile software. JRPGs arent going to move much Wii hardware. In Japan maybe a little, but Japan is where Wii is tailing off the most. Was down like 50% in Japan in December YoY. As for pricing Nintendo is going to go for profit before selling a couple of million more and they arent going to sell the Wii for $99 with 2 pieces of software free. |
1- You forget that during these year the Wii was always in low supplies after the holidays, leading to big downfall in sales, which could mean it could do better during Januar those weeks.
2- Motion control wasn't the reason for the Wii's sucess, games were. If Kinect doesn't has something big for this year it might just die.
3- Galaxy may be high profile, but that doesn't means it moved hardaware (and it really didn't). Wii was down in Japan because in 2009 it had the massive release of NSMB Wii (you migh negate as much as you want it didn't move hardware outside, but it moved huge numbers in Japan), this year it will problably have DQX, which will have a similar effect (although it problably won't conpensate for the lackluster sales through the year.
Above: still the best game of the year.
