Wow, are Nintendo fans eager for Nintendo to be wrong about their numbers. Not sure how they think the 8.2M+ was confusing, since that was one of the hard facts in their statement, with none of the other PR foolery with the numbers. Let me just post what I wrote in the BF thread.
I also want to clear up something about the 5 day vs BF week. There's a reason Nintendo used that period. It allowed the Switch to beat the Wii. My guess is that if they used the BF week, Wii would have won. You have to remember that Wii was a hot item in 2008. It was leaving the shelves almost as soon as it was put up. And for that BF Nintendo offered no deals on the system. It's not hard to imagine quite a few of its sales came from the Mon-Thu period, as there was no reason to wait til Black Friday, which at the time happened in the early hours of Fri morning, not Thu night, like now. Cyber Monday was also a MUCH smaller event than what it is today.
Edit: Also, according to this list of deals, Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack, Sears, Target, and Toys R' Us didn't even advertise the Wii console for Black Friday. Not advertising the hottest gaming item for the craziest shopping day? My guess is they didn't advertise it because of low stock. It was also sold out by the end of BF, so it basically sold little to nothing Sat and Sun. And like I said, CM was nothing like it was today, so if stores were reserving stock for it, it wouldn't have been much.
Last edited by thismeintiel - on 29 November 2018
