bigjon on 06 June 2017
| Dazza said: Bit of nostalgia here. Anyone remember the week ending May 3rd 2008. Grand Theft Auto 4 release week. Was supposed to be the Savior for the ps360. Nintendo released an insane number of Wii consoles and that was the end of the console war right then. They sold roughly 650,000 consoles that week which for April/may is absolutely ridiculous. You don't see numbers like that outside Xmas. Could the switch do the same. I'm not sure but would be great to see Nintendo release these sorts of numbers and see its potential. |
They released They released Smash Bros in March I think, Mario Kart Wii about a month before, and launched WiiFit right against it. Add in the fact it was severly supply constrained at the time (still selling for 350-400 by ebay scalpers) but they stockpiled Wiis to coincide with the launch.
It was really a master stroke of stategy. The whole push of "OMG massive Wii stock dump" pulled alot of attention away from the GTA4 launch.
End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)
Wii- 72 million 3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases
360- 37 million Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak
PS3- 29 million Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut
