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Very good week all around, excellent for Wii, but Kinect kicked Wii Fit Plus and Balance Board out of the top ten during Xmas weeks, despite the attractive BB bundle. As I predicted, Kinect didn't hit the whole Wii, but just Balance Board. Oh, I just noticed GT5 grew in America from the week before.



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TheSource said:

So in addition to the deals pointed out earlier that are for one day at Walmart, discounting Wii by $75, and PS3 by $100 my records show this for the Dec 18 week in the USA:

Kmart - Buy Wii get $50 coupon

Best Buy - Buy Wii get $20 gift card

Best Buy - Buy PS3 get $50 gift card (might be Online only)

Target - Buy Wii for $177 (save $23)

Walmart - Buy 250 GB X360 for $300 get $75 giftcard

A lot of good deals out there... All consoles can be up YoY this week.



Maynard_Tool said:
Darth Tigris said:
psrock said:
Darth Tigris said:
Seece said:
Darth Tigris said:
18
Kinect Sports (X360)
Microsoft
6 161,170 774,779
31
Sports Champions (PS3)
Sony Computer Entertainment
13 99,264 755,654


Should be comparing Adventures, as they're the ones both bundled

But that wouldn't be considered fair by some vocal ones here because Kinect got such a marketing push, Oprah, smoke-and-mirrors, blah blah blah, right?  

So, instead, here we have the two most similar games on each platform, yet the one that ISN'T bundled has sold more and is selling at a much higher rate.  The EMEAA numbers are similar.  Quite impressive and a Rare feat.

Can we add Wii sports too.

No.

Why not?


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Nintendogamer said:
eliasg said:
Nintendogamer said:
eliasg said:

imo wii is overtracked , i cant find a single reason why is outselling 2:1 the best selling console of November.


How do you know? Wii is on fire in the holidays you should know this.


i know... but 2:1????? is that possible, with kinect out there???


maybe kinect is selling mostly to existing 360 owners,  maybe wii has been out for 4 years and lots of people know about it where as not many know about kinect just yet.

I tried to tell people this but nobody seems to listen.. I seriously doubt that there are that many people willing to shell out $300 JUST for an add on that currently supports 16 games, and only has 3 or 4 with ratings over the 80% range.

Now in all fairness, 360 is still selling strongly, and I do actually believe it may be a little undertracked this week. However, the fact that Kinect is pushing all these 360s I believe is a myth. What's mainly pushing the consoles is the continued effect of the slimline model, which offers far more value as well as simply more reliable, as well as the mega hits Halo Reach and Black Ops. GAMES are what sells consoles, not peripherals



morenoingrato said:
tombi123 said:
ASStronaut said:
radiantshadow92 said:

dayum, GT5 is on a roll.

Yeah, the only way anything can roll is downhill. LMFAO.


It went up this week.

Can't even troll properly. Pathetic.

It was outsold by MKWII

Also, what he meant is that according to the laws of phisic, nothing can roll uphill


few things

1. as you obviously know it was a figure of speech..and things can roll uphill too with some force applied to it, or along the flat ground lol, but then again not sure what laws of phisic say about it

2. Never knew GT5 was competing with MKwii to be compared? Not for the same audience, might as well compare FPS on HD consoles to Wii ones. ;)

Seriously this pathetic GT5 trolling every week is getting annoying, the game is doing just fine in sales. Should hit 4-4.5 mil by years end I guess, which are great numbers.



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Almost impossible to know where the 360 actually stands right now.  We know it's basically a 1:1 demand to the Wii but knowing how short it is coming up with lack of stock is really going to be the hard part.  It may be better for Vgchartz to just estimate a monthly total for the 360 at this point.  You can guess that in america 2.5 to 3.5 million will be sold in December so list it at 800K a week and call it good. 



M.U.G.E.N said:
morenoingrato said:
tombi123 said:
ASStronaut said:
radiantshadow92 said:

dayum, GT5 is on a roll.

Yeah, the only way anything can roll is downhill. LMFAO.


It went up this week.

Can't even troll properly. Pathetic.

It was outsold by MKWII

Also, what he meant is that according to the laws of phisic, nothing can roll uphill


few things

1. as you obviously know it was a figure of speech..and things can roll uphill too with some force applied to it, or along the flat ground lol, but then again not sure what laws of phisic say about it

2. Never knew GT5 was competing with MKwii to be compared? Not for the same audience, might as well compare FPS on HD consoles to Wii ones. ;)

Seriously this pathetic GT5 trolling every week is getting annoying, the game is doing just fine in sales. Should hit 4-4.5 mil by years end I guess, which are great numbers.

He was the one who called him troll, and it wasn't even trolling, it was a small joke.

I should also call trolls the undertracked babies.

I also brought in MK to contradict his insult.



CGI-Quality said:

Gran Turismo 5 really makes me smile. Good for it!

Even though the Wii got a deal @ Walmart, it can't be ignored that it has kicked serious tail this holiday! I doubted it, I'll admit that!


How are you finding DKCR? I'm on world 8.5, but 8-4 I died so many times on the cart level lol.



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Notorius.A.i.G said:

- Wii and DS is a beast

- 360 doing great despite shortages

- PS3 is doing alright ... let's hope the $100 giftcard can provide a boost !!!

- If I'm not mistaken GT5 has increased slightly from last week


GT5 actually went up a little in American, but dropped more in U.K. I would have thought it would be the other way around. I"m surprised the numbers stayed so close to last weeks figures. Looks like it"ll break 4 million before the end of the year. I still dont think it"ll hit 10 miillion in its lifetime. Xbox 360 didnt have any major shortages. It keeps selling out and Microsoft keeps shipping more. Amazon had over 750 KinectAdventure units on Tuesday and plenty of the 4GB bundles. It was the best selling item on Amazon. Lets see what its doing now.



WOW! Wii sales are insane. 1.45 million and I think Japan sales will make it 1.5, thats insane.