Against The Grain: The Wii's return to grace

[SaviorX]

Conegamer said:

SaviorX said:

 

Time for a history lesson:

 GameCube HW & SW (GC)  Americas 12.94/138.48  Japan 4.04/ 27.54  EMEAA 4.77/ 42.55

Total 21.75/ 208.57

 

Originally priced $200 on 11/14/01 at launch, GC ended up $99 by 9/25/03. By that time, the GC sold 9.4 million units.

Wii HW & SW   Americas 41.18/383.38  Japan 11.55/55.57  EMEAA 33.45/215.67

Total 86.18/654.62

 

Originally priced $250 on 11/16/06 at launch, Wii ended up $199 by 9/27/09. By that time, the Wii sold 53 million units.

Console	Million Sellers	500,000 sellers	300,000 sellers
GC	41	54	67
Wii	109	216	360

 

Now, for modern day times:

PS3 178,305(-3%)  Wii 161,128(0%) X360 149,140(-5%)

 

-          This past weeks sales worldwide. Like mentioned earlier in this thread, given a different perspective, this could make the PS3/360 look bad.

-          In Japan, Wii only got 5 more games than the PLAYSTATION TWO this year while the PS3 received triple the amount of software. Despite that, the PS3 has sold only 150k more hardware units over there. I’ll give Sony credit though, it is at a higher price :)

-          The Xbox360, the most heavily supported console this generation, has undergone a console relaunch that is not even infant old (9 months) and it has fallen behind in sales on a worldwide scale. The only potential system seller it has coming up is 25 weeks away, and the 3rd entry in a series (Gears 3). The Wii hasn’t got a lick of support throughout the entirety of its first 120 days this year, and has maintained sales somehow.

-          Overall, I wouldn’t expect a Wii 2 until Nov. 2012. When Nintendo was enjoying success as a market leader with the NES, they stayed for 6 years before moving on; I expect the same thing here.

-          DS came 2 years before Wii, GBA came 5 months before GC, and the GB came 2 years before SNES…the correlation between them…I can’t make one :P

 

What hope does the Wii have this year? GENERIC LIST WAR TIME.

What we know: Zelda, Kirby, Pandora’s Tower, Last Story, Earth Seeker, Xenoblade (Chronicles), Tales of Graces F, Conduit 2, Rodea, and some E3 stuff.

 What we guess is coming: Vitality Sensor and maybe a New Super Mario Bros.2; I don’t like speculation.

 Reggie said they aren’t pullin the plug on the Wii until it sells 45m in Americas. Start the countdown…

I like this. I like this a lot. You speak a lot of sense and make a well thought out argument. You're a 

(Mind if I add this to the OP? At least some of it)

I don't mind at all; go ahead!