Ail said:
Zucas said:
Ail said:
FishyJoe said:
MontanaHatchet said:
The U.S. can have off weeks just like every territory, really. This wasn't so much an off week as a Nintendomination week. The only big release I can even think of this week on the HD consoles is Haze, and poor rated games aimed at the hardcore crowd usually do very poorly. As the Wii Fit hype gets to sane levels and the Metal Gear Solid 4 hype kicks in, we should start seeing more balanced sales. |
Didn't some say the same thing when GTAIV was coming out? Something to the tune of "GTAIV sales will kill the Wii". I think by now we shouldn't make any assumptions that any game release will lead to more balanced sales. Nintendo is sneaky and stockpiles Wii's for such occaisions. |
It's still weird that they shipped 50% more Wii for Mario kart release than for the Wii Fit one ( considering how much more advertising they are doing around Wii Fit). Mario Kart release week had 420k Wii. Wii Fit week has 280k Wii... |
Slap yourself in the face right now. That's a duh kind of answer. Why did they ship more on MK Wii week over Wii Fit week? Well duh GTA IV released on MK Wii week as well. Nintendo isn't going to sit back and let PS3 and 360 take anything away from them. This is why MK Wii released on that week and why more Wiis were shipped. Steal the thunder, and looking at NPD sales, I'd say they won. |
The average customer knows very little about that thunder thingy ( especially the customers Wii Fit is supposed to attract). All I know is there are a lot of new customers that Nintendo is trying to bring to the gaming market that saw Wii Fit on Oprah or in a commercial and when they went to buy it they must have been in for a bad surprise... It really does not make sense to have such a huge marketing campaign and not have the product on the shelves in sufficient quantity...... Marketing events like appearing on Oprah usually have a very significant short term sales spike( less long term), it just seems dumbs not to have the product out there to take advantage of it... |
The stealth attack wasn't meant to get the attention of the average customer.
And when was Wii Fit on Oprah? Did I miss something? I knew about the Ellen thing.
