May 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software numbers up!

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Aquamarine said:

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Jesus, 25k for an entire month.
I read that 29k was the lowest month in July 2013 or so.
And worst things are going to come in the next months with only 800k expected for a full year worldwide.

Essentially, Nintendo isn't manufacturing any more Wii U in any significant capacity.

They have approximately $150 million worth of Wii U inventory at the end of March....valued at an average selling price to retailers of $220 per unit, that's approximately 700K Wii U units they have in inventory to sell-through.

That extra 100K to make up the 800K prejections is for the tiny bit of Wii U manufacturing they've done since then just to round out the physical year.

But the point behind the 800K is that by March 2017 they will have essentially depleted their inventory so they can hit the ground running with NX without taking write-off losses on their inventory.

So, majority of the forecast is already in inventory?