Mordred11 said:
Raze said:
Wii came close to outselling the HD twins combined WW... that's pretty impressive, considering that MS and Sony both thought they'd steal the "casual gamer" crowd from Nintendo with Kinect and Move.
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Well not many said that the PS3 or X360 will outsell the Wii,but the Wii is down a lot YoY,while the PS3 and X360 are on par and up YOY,respectively.
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Of course the Wii is going to be down YoY. When you sell that many consoles, you really have nowhere to go but down. Wii sold a record 3.8 million in the month of December in 2009 in the US, absolutely unprecedented numbers, so in December Wii will probably be massively down. But it's all relative.
Similarly, when you don't sell as many like the PS3 (and until recently, the Xbox 360, it's far easier to be up YoY). What will be key for the Wii is keeping the negative YoY as small as possible from here on out. What counts is not relative things like marketshare or YoY drops but the fact that Wii is still outselling competitors meaning it's still putting further distance between itself and competitors.
Also, the HD consoles have both had console redesigns, which in many ways function like an entirely new launch, as well as MS launching the Kinect, which is even more like a new launch. Without these, the HD consoles would be down roughly the same % YoY as the Wii.