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CrashMan on 14 December 2007

Looking at:

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=America&cons2=PS3&reg2=America&cons3=X360&reg3=America&start=39040&end=39425

Following the Black Friday sales blitz, Wii sales seemed to drop hard in America while 360 and PS3 sales seemed prett constant, with the Wii dropping below 360 sales last week.

 Any speculation as to why this happened?



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Avinash_Tyagi on 14 December 2007

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W29 on 14 December 2007

Short Wii supply is starting to kick in..



misteromar mk4 on 14 December 2007

People could not find one to buy.



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shams on 14 December 2007

Very simple. The weekly sales worldwide are almost identical each week. Its a simple redistribution between all the major regions. The US got more around Thanksgiving, and now its Japan's turn (WiiFit) - with Europe getting more as well.

With demand in the US so high, its pointless for Ninty to starve the other regions. They would hate to have a situation where they own NA - but unable to supply enough units - and have lost all the other regions, by not supplying enough!



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CrashMan on 14 December 2007

Ah, didn't think about a shift of distribution for Wii Fit.

I would just think with the insanity that is us American's spending habits around the holidays their would be a more abundant wii supply here.

Any news as to when Nintendo expects to up Wii production numbers?



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endurance on 14 December 2007

maybe the supply was less for this week



gawalls on 14 December 2007

I'm beginning to copy and paste my opinions on this subject as it's popping up in that many threads...

WiiFit - Japan was about 60 - 70k up where America was 80K down and why not? After the lull recently in Japan Wii sales why not capitilise on Japanese sales, after all they'll still be queues in America next week, imo it's worth it alone after all of the recent web reports about PS3 gaining Market share in Japan etc just tto halt these stories although this reasoning is probably not the best business decision and i'm sure there logic was deeper than that



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FJ-Warez on 14 December 2007

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Joemanji on 14 December 2007
CrashMan said:
Any news as to when Nintendo expects to up Wii production numbers?

 They already ramped up production from 1.2 to 1.8 million Wii's a month. No plans of Nintendo to ramp up the production even more though.