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| S.Peelman said: Don't know if anyone already made this comparison, but I was curious about Wii software sales for last fiscal year. As usual, Mario Kart Wii remains impressive, having sold 120k still after all these years. What's also interesting however is that apparently Wii Sports is also still selling;
Net changes in shipment totals of Nintendo's first party Wii top 10;
Also checked DS, there no game has additional sales (while it does now say "as of 2020") compared to last year. Don't remember if that was also the case last year. For WiiU every game in the top 10 did +10k, except Super Mario 3D World and Mario Party 10, which both did +20k. |
Seeing Mario Galaxy ship another 10k in 2020 warms my heart. Mario Kart Wii continues to be the definition of legs, still pulling six figures in a quarter 12 years after its release, such a beast. God I love the Wii, so glad to see its numbers still ticking over well over a decade on from its launch.
| tbone51 said: For those that say that 20mil doesn’t look possible because of not knowing of software releases from here on out....why? Nintendo won’t release as many games and people think Mario game’s won’t do as much as system sellers and possibly a paper Mario isn’t big? That the evergreens will keep on pushing in Q1-Q2 with no problem and if Nintendo in its 4th holiday won’t set up some good holiday bundles deals (Q3). Demand is still thru the roof, people especially in japan want ring fit which seems to be the biggest OG model system now. I think people are understanding Q1 and Q2 potential. If those are great Q3 doesn’t need to be as high as last years. A 20mil is 1mil less than last FY. Then if all that does happen imagine when things get better and have a great 2021 year with slot of software more than usual. (BotW2/Metroid Prime 3/ZELDA Remakes/Pokémon Gen 4 remakes (or something else) I’ll break down numbers soon |
Evergreens aren't enough to keep a console selling more than 20m a year. They have great momentum now, but if they don't have big games for the second half of 2020 that momentum will slow and they'll be down YOY substantially when we get to the latter months of the year when the likes of Pokemon and Switch Lite hit in 2019.
