Wii finally Breaks it's top % market share with 44.5%!!!

[Ail]

Stever89 said:

Ail said:

To reach 50% marketshare by the end of the year the Wii would need to consistently week over week get over 55% of each week marketshare for the rest of the year...

This has never happened this year, the highest marketshare Wii had a single week was on 2/10/08 with 54.3% marketshare.

In the latest pick in that chart the Wii didn't even have 50% marketshare...

 

Lets say the PS3 keep selling at an average of 175k/week and the Xbox360 at 140k/week for the rest of the year.

The Wii would need to sell 500k units/week for the next 35 weeks to reach 50% marketshare. That is what the maths tell you which is what makes most of the posts in this thread saying the Wii will be at 50% marketshare before the end of year so funny and clueless...

 

 

Yeah that's why I said that it was unlikely that it would be able to do so. I think it'll get close. So far, this year, it's managed a 46% marketshare, so I think it's likely it'll get close to 47% or so, and then probably early next year it'll hit 50%.

@montana: yeah I think 200k a week during normal weeks would be about right, which is about double what it's averaging right about now.

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One think you don't take into account is the fact that selling 46% marketshare this year is different from reaching 46% marketshare LTD because you have to take into account all the consoles already sold.....

The longer Wii stays around 44-44.5% overall marketshare ( which selling 46% this year would do) the harder it will be to reach lifetime 50%..........