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Avinash_Tyagi on 26 February 2010
killeryoshis said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
killeryoshis said:
How would the wii beat last year's numbers now?

pretty easily, all Wii has to do is maintain sales, last year Wii sales dropped off hard, this year it looks like the only issue is supply


The wii only dropped 2 million untis. How is that a big slowdown? Unless your talking about Q2&3? That's when 2008's numbers
jumped through the roof til the Q4 when it slowly droppped until the Christmas season

Well if you look at Q2 and 3 last year, Wii fell as low as the upper 100's, if it stays well above that this year, likely, then it'll probably outpace 2009 without any problem



 

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killeryoshis on 27 February 2010
FreeTalkLive said:
killeryoshis said:
How would the wii beat last year's numbers now?

Nintendo will need to increase production again.  Maybe?


So that demand will decrease? I don't think so. Its a battle they can't win. Demand will decrease is you scale up production.
Demand will increase if its scaled down. That's how I look at it




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killeryoshis on 27 February 2010
Avinash_Tyagi said:
killeryoshis said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
killeryoshis said:
How would the wii beat last year's numbers now?

pretty easily, all Wii has to do is maintain sales, last year Wii sales dropped off hard, this year it looks like the only issue is supply


The wii only dropped 2 million untis. How is that a big slowdown? Unless your talking about Q2&3? That's when 2008's numbers
jumped through the roof til the Q4 when it slowly droppped until the Christmas season

Well if you look at Q2 and 3 last year, Wii fell as low as the upper 100's, if it stays well above that this year, likely, then it'll probably outpace 2009 without any problem


I think it can beat 2008's numbers too. With all the games it has. Thoug I'm still speptikle about it



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UncleScrooge on 27 February 2010
killeryoshis said:
FreeTalkLive said:
killeryoshis said:
How would the wii beat last year's numbers now?

Nintendo will need to increase production again.  Maybe?


So that demand will decrease? I don't think so. Its a battle they can't win. Demand will decrease is you scale up production.
Demand will increase if its scaled down. That's how I look at it

Increasing supply has nothing to do with demand, though. When sales of your product increase you have to increase production. How did you come to that conclusion?



jlauro on 27 February 2010

Wii sells more the first holiday season after a price drop. Why are people surprised?  and more importantly, why wasn't Nintendo prepared...



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killeryoshis on 27 February 2010
UncleScrooge said:
killeryoshis said:
FreeTalkLive said:
killeryoshis said:
How would the wii beat last year's numbers now?

Nintendo will need to increase production again.  Maybe?


So that demand will decrease? I don't think so. Its a battle they can't win. Demand will decrease is you scale up production.
Demand will increase if its scaled down. That's how I look at it

Increasing supply has nothing to do with demand, though. When sales of your product increase you have to increase production. How did you come to that conclusion?


it was a joke. That's how it seems. Though.Sales went up when they just scaled down production.  Now they have to scale up again



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UncleScrooge on 27 February 2010
jlauro said:

Wii sells more the first holiday season after a price drop. Why are people surprised?  and more importantly, why wasn't Nintendo prepared...

I doubt the high sales were caused by the price drop. Especially in Japan the price drop didn't have that much of an effect and sales were down YoY until Mario Bros. was released.

Iwata also said in an interview the price cut didn't have the effect they were expecting and to investors he said he was worried about the performance until December.

Most likely Nintendo just underestimated the Mario effect and thought it wouldn't push such a lot of hardware.



Buzzi on 27 February 2010

It seems Wii is in for another 20+m year, which was not obvious last summer.



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Siko1989 on 27 February 2010

with the interesting titles coming in 2010 i see the wii wont drop in sales much




Siko1989 on 27 February 2010

matter of fact i see an increase from help of the big first party line up