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famousringo on 03 December 2007

The question of Wii sales is a question of how many are stockpiled. Nintendo says they make 1.8 million in a month, and it's safe to assume those will all sell. So how many are sitting on shelves waiting for their strategic deployment? Roughly 2 million seems reasonable here.

The other two consoles should see an extra boost beyond the normal holiday surge, as Wii shortfalls drive customers to alternatives. I think that 1.5 million 360s and 1.2 million PS3s are the upper limit of what's possible.



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TheSource on 03 December 2007

I don't have Americas preliminary data really.  My hunch is sales for all platforms in the USA will be down 10-25% this week vs. Black Friday, and ioi seemed to verify that.  But I don't know if say, Wii was down 10%, or down 25% and thats a huge difference in sales until the data is posted.



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endurance on 03 December 2007

360 a bit high,and wii a bit low



NJ5 on 03 December 2007

I haven't yet seen anyone give their reasons on why they don't expect the 360 to have a normal December boost (doubling sales between Nov and Dec is normal). I think TheSource's numbers are reasonable.

 



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Sqrl on 03 December 2007
TheSource said:

I don't have Americas preliminary data really. My hunch is sales for all platforms in the USA will be down 10-25% this week vs. Black Friday, and ioi seemed to verify that. But I don't know if say, Wii was down 10%, or down 25% and thats a huge difference in sales until the data is posted.


Sounds good, I was just curious because I wasn't sure how much to read into your predictions where it concerns this week's sales.



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sinha on 04 December 2007

November
Wii - 1.05 million
Xbox 360 - 800,000
PS3 - 390,000

December
Wii - 2 million
Xbox 360 - 1.5 to 1.75 million
PS3 - 850,000 to 900,000

Seems to be in line with this:
http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=10254

November
Wii: 1,000,000 - 1,500,000
360: 700,000 - 1,000,000
PS3: 250,000 - 350,000

December
Wii: 2,000,000 - 3,000,000
360: 1,400,000 - 2,000,000
PS3: 500,000 - 700,000

Only the PS3 estimates are higher than the historical trends would indicate, and that can be explained by the price drop / new model, and the fact that sales were so low to begin with.



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Mummelmann on 04 December 2007

Good guesses Source! Seem right enough, but I'm not sure the 360 will move that much though.



Branko2166 on 04 December 2007

360-A bit high
wii- about right although I think it will be supply constrained
ps3- the wii shortage should give it an extra boost so I wouldn't be surprised if it hit a million for December.



 

 

johnlucas on 04 December 2007

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--OkeyDokey-- on 04 December 2007

can't argue with that. those psp predictions seem a little high-ish though.