So they held their forecasts (for money, and shipments) the same. I reckon the plan is something like this -
June Quarter Sept Quarter December Quarter March Quarter
Wii HW** 0.71m 1.0m* 3.4m 0.9m
Wii U HW** 3.3m 1.2m
DS 0.54m 0.46m 1.2m 0.3m
3DS 1.86m 3.54m*** 11.0m 2.1m
* Price cut ahead of Just Dance 4/ Skylanders
** Combined forecast of 10.5m
*** NSMB 3DS & 3DS XL
The September quarter should actually be fairly strong. DQX is going to push HW and some older software by extension in Japan, and be the biggest game Wii has had in Japan in ages (although it will still only do 500k or so for the quarter). Just Dance Wii 2 & Kirby will each doing around 200k - 300k in the quarter too and push hw a bit. I figure a Wii price cut is also due for the West ahead of the last wave of major Western software (Skylanders & Just Dance 4) which should again help hw / sw a bit. 3DS is already selling very well in Japan (920,000 just in Japan in Apr-June 2012, vs. 710,000 Wiis globally and 1.1m X360s globally), but should start doing close to 100,000 per week per Western market now too, with NSMB and the new model.
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