Wii >101 Million by the end of the year? Let's SELABREEEIT or cry.

[foxtail]

Teeqoz said:

foxtail said:

I think Nintendo wanted to reach the 100M benchmark, but didn't really care about beating the PS1.

Sony had to reduce the official MSRP of the PS1 to $49 just to pass over the 100M mark.

Around 13M (~12.86M) PS1 were sold at a MSRP of $49, (FY starts on April 1st, price was cut on May 14th)

with the total amount PS1 shipped being 102.54M.  

Also to note the Wii stayed above the $199 price point quite a bit longer than the PS2.

*cough*inflation*cough*

Even with inflation it's still only $64, but inflation with "consoles" doesn't work anyways because it's not heavily weighted in the CPI.

Look at it this way the PS1 launched at $299 and was reduced to $49, a reduction to 1/6 of its original price.  Wii launched at $249 and is now at $99.