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kopstudent89 on 28 November 2011

Just a thought. 3DS has surpassed the DS's first year according to Nintendo. By october the 3DS sold 1.65 mil Ltd while the DS's first year total was 2.37 million. Does this mean that the 3DS has sold more than 700k already in November?!



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Lucas-Rio on 28 November 2011
thx1139 said:
I suspect that the Wii sales this BF week compared to others will be much more BF focused. The $99 Wii drove the sales. I suspect people waited to try and get 1 of those and only if they failed went elsewhere.


I think that the Wii sales will be exactly like the previous year. That's the first time the Wii is sold with his new pricetag in a holiday season in america.

That's why it will win December. Nintendo rules family videogames and holidays belong to him. Xbox may be above in November but won't be above in December.



saicho on 28 November 2011
postofficebuddy said:
Seece said:
postofficebuddy said:
kopstudent89 said:
"The Nintendo Wii had its biggest Black Friday ever more with than 500,000 units sold just during Black Friday and the pre-Black openings at some stores, he says."

WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!! 500k is biggest BF for Wii?


Last year they said they did 600k but that was for the full week, this is just for BF (and stores that opened late Thursday). So going by BenVTriggers projection of PS3 being just slightly below Wii this means that PS3 should be over 500k across Americas.

Hopefully Sony release an estimate, the estimate I've been given isn't anywhere near 500k though.


What was the estimate you got for the Wii? Considering pretty much every piece of anecdotal and inside information suggested PS3 outselling Wii outside of Walmart that seems rather odd. Particularly considering Wii's total Americas sales for the full week are likely comfortably over 600k.

If Wii turns out selling much better than PS3 for BF, it would prove that

1. anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much

2. Walmart has a huge market for video game sales.



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Seece on 28 November 2011
saicho said:
postofficebuddy said:
Seece said:
postofficebuddy said:
kopstudent89 said:
"The Nintendo Wii had its biggest Black Friday ever more with than 500,000 units sold just during Black Friday and the pre-Black openings at some stores, he says."

WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!! 500k is biggest BF for Wii?


Last year they said they did 600k but that was for the full week, this is just for BF (and stores that opened late Thursday). So going by BenVTriggers projection of PS3 being just slightly below Wii this means that PS3 should be over 500k across Americas.

Hopefully Sony release an estimate, the estimate I've been given isn't anywhere near 500k though.


What was the estimate you got for the Wii? Considering pretty much every piece of anecdotal and inside information suggested PS3 outselling Wii outside of Walmart that seems rather odd. Particularly considering Wii's total Americas sales for the full week are likely comfortably over 600k.

If Wii turns out selling much better than PS3 for BF, it would prove that

1. anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much

2. Walmart has a huge market for video game sales.

1. doesn't mean anything anyway, going by anecdotal evidence most sites might as well have had the Wii dead, but it's just done its best numbers ever on the day.

2. I think it's big anyway, but I think it's more people have unrealistic expectations for PS3, I've seen some 500k predictions for this week. When It only did 530k in the US for the entire Nov month last year, including GT5 launching, that just seems a tad optimistic to me. They also didn't mention in their PR they were up or anything, actually they didn't allude to any numbers at all. Hopefully we do get something though, I still think the PS3 could have had a solid BF and Nov overall.



 

kopstudent89 on 28 November 2011
Seece said:
saicho said:
postofficebuddy said:
Seece said:
postofficebuddy said:
kopstudent89 said:
"The Nintendo Wii had its biggest Black Friday ever more with than 500,000 units sold just during Black Friday and the pre-Black openings at some stores, he says."

WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!! 500k is biggest BF for Wii?


Last year they said they did 600k but that was for the full week, this is just for BF (and stores that opened late Thursday). So going by BenVTriggers projection of PS3 being just slightly below Wii this means that PS3 should be over 500k across Americas.

Hopefully Sony release an estimate, the estimate I've been given isn't anywhere near 500k though.


What was the estimate you got for the Wii? Considering pretty much every piece of anecdotal and inside information suggested PS3 outselling Wii outside of Walmart that seems rather odd. Particularly considering Wii's total Americas sales for the full week are likely comfortably over 600k.

If Wii turns out selling much better than PS3 for BF, it would prove that

1. anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much

2. Walmart has a huge market for video game sales.

1. doesn't mean anything anyway, going by anecdotal evidence most sites might as well have had the Wii dead, but it's just done its best numbers ever on the day.

2. I think it's big anyway, but I think it's more people have unrealistic expectations for PS3, I've seen some 500k predictions for this week. When It only did 530k in the US for the entire Nov month last year, including GT5 launching, that just seems a tad optimistic to me. They also didn't mention in their PR they were up or anything, actually they didn't allude to any numbers at all. Hopefully we do get something though, I still think the PS3 could have had a solid BF and Nov overall.

Yeah, tbh I think the trend has seen the PS3 suffer a bit in the US each year during the holidays. It will definitely be on top in Europe and Japan, but America really seems out of its reach. 

And really if it has never done 500k before in the US, why would it do it now? UC3 is not that big of a system mover so i don't see any reason



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Seece on 28 November 2011
kopstudent89 said:
Seece said:
saicho said:
postofficebuddy said:
Seece said:
postofficebuddy said:
kopstudent89 said:
"The Nintendo Wii had its biggest Black Friday ever more with than 500,000 units sold just during Black Friday and the pre-Black openings at some stores, he says."

WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!! 500k is biggest BF for Wii?


Last year they said they did 600k but that was for the full week, this is just for BF (and stores that opened late Thursday). So going by BenVTriggers projection of PS3 being just slightly below Wii this means that PS3 should be over 500k across Americas.

Hopefully Sony release an estimate, the estimate I've been given isn't anywhere near 500k though.


What was the estimate you got for the Wii? Considering pretty much every piece of anecdotal and inside information suggested PS3 outselling Wii outside of Walmart that seems rather odd. Particularly considering Wii's total Americas sales for the full week are likely comfortably over 600k.

If Wii turns out selling much better than PS3 for BF, it would prove that

1. anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much

2. Walmart has a huge market for video game sales.

1. doesn't mean anything anyway, going by anecdotal evidence most sites might as well have had the Wii dead, but it's just done its best numbers ever on the day.

2. I think it's big anyway, but I think it's more people have unrealistic expectations for PS3, I've seen some 500k predictions for this week. When It only did 530k in the US for the entire Nov month last year, including GT5 launching, that just seems a tad optimistic to me. They also didn't mention in their PR they were up or anything, actually they didn't allude to any numbers at all. Hopefully we do get something though, I still think the PS3 could have had a solid BF and Nov overall.

Yeah, tbh I think the trend has seen the PS3 suffer a bit in the US each year during the holidays. It will definitely be on top in Europe and Japan, but America really seems out of its reach. 

And really if it has never done 500k before in the US, why would it do it now? UC3 is not that big of a system mover so i don't see any reason

Closest they have come BF week is 440k, that was just after the $199 slim released, and had very high September/October sales and was riding a high that holiday.



 

kopstudent89 on 28 November 2011
Seece said:
kopstudent89 said:
Seece said:
saicho said:
postofficebuddy said:
Seece said:
postofficebuddy said:
kopstudent89 said:
"The Nintendo Wii had its biggest Black Friday ever more with than 500,000 units sold just during Black Friday and the pre-Black openings at some stores, he says."

WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!! 500k is biggest BF for Wii?


Last year they said they did 600k but that was for the full week, this is just for BF (and stores that opened late Thursday). So going by BenVTriggers projection of PS3 being just slightly below Wii this means that PS3 should be over 500k across Americas.

Hopefully Sony release an estimate, the estimate I've been given isn't anywhere near 500k though.


What was the estimate you got for the Wii? Considering pretty much every piece of anecdotal and inside information suggested PS3 outselling Wii outside of Walmart that seems rather odd. Particularly considering Wii's total Americas sales for the full week are likely comfortably over 600k.

If Wii turns out selling much better than PS3 for BF, it would prove that

1. anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much

2. Walmart has a huge market for video game sales.

1. doesn't mean anything anyway, going by anecdotal evidence most sites might as well have had the Wii dead, but it's just done its best numbers ever on the day.

2. I think it's big anyway, but I think it's more people have unrealistic expectations for PS3, I've seen some 500k predictions for this week. When It only did 530k in the US for the entire Nov month last year, including GT5 launching, that just seems a tad optimistic to me. They also didn't mention in their PR they were up or anything, actually they didn't allude to any numbers at all. Hopefully we do get something though, I still think the PS3 could have had a solid BF and Nov overall.

Yeah, tbh I think the trend has seen the PS3 suffer a bit in the US each year during the holidays. It will definitely be on top in Europe and Japan, but America really seems out of its reach. 

And really if it has never done 500k before in the US, why would it do it now? UC3 is not that big of a system mover so i don't see any reason

Closest they have come BF week is 440k, that was just after the $199 slim released, and had very high September/October sales and was riding a high that holiday.

Yes, and that will probably be the highest BF for it in the US.

Btw now that we know that the Wii is 500k for BF, any idea where it would lie for the week? I just thought it was interesting that Nintendo highlighted the sales of only one day and not the whole week. It makes me thing that the Wii only performed well that day! 



postofficebuddy on 28 November 2011
Seece said:
kopstudent89 said:
Seece said:
saicho said:
postofficebuddy said:
Seece said:
postofficebuddy said:
kopstudent89 said:
"The Nintendo Wii had its biggest Black Friday ever more with than 500,000 units sold just during Black Friday and the pre-Black openings at some stores, he says."

WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!! 500k is biggest BF for Wii?


Last year they said they did 600k but that was for the full week, this is just for BF (and stores that opened late Thursday). So going by BenVTriggers projection of PS3 being just slightly below Wii this means that PS3 should be over 500k across Americas.

Hopefully Sony release an estimate, the estimate I've been given isn't anywhere near 500k though.


What was the estimate you got for the Wii? Considering pretty much every piece of anecdotal and inside information suggested PS3 outselling Wii outside of Walmart that seems rather odd. Particularly considering Wii's total Americas sales for the full week are likely comfortably over 600k.

If Wii turns out selling much better than PS3 for BF, it would prove that

1. anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much

2. Walmart has a huge market for video game sales.

1. doesn't mean anything anyway, going by anecdotal evidence most sites might as well have had the Wii dead, but it's just done its best numbers ever on the day.

2. I think it's big anyway, but I think it's more people have unrealistic expectations for PS3, I've seen some 500k predictions for this week. When It only did 530k in the US for the entire Nov month last year, including GT5 launching, that just seems a tad optimistic to me. They also didn't mention in their PR they were up or anything, actually they didn't allude to any numbers at all. Hopefully we do get something though, I still think the PS3 could have had a solid BF and Nov overall.

Yeah, tbh I think the trend has seen the PS3 suffer a bit in the US each year during the holidays. It will definitely be on top in Europe and Japan, but America really seems out of its reach. 

And really if it has never done 500k before in the US, why would it do it now? UC3 is not that big of a system mover so i don't see any reason

Closest they have come BF week is 440k, that was just after the $199 slim released, and had very high September/October sales and was riding a high that holiday.


$199? That's what it is this year, not then. You never answered my question. What was the estimate that you got for the Wii? "Hopefully Sony release an estimate". You don't sound very confident in your the site's numbers. I find it rather ironic that you saw fit to use data given you by VTrigger to make your predictions but now you seem to be writing him off. Regardless, NPD will be interesting.



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Seece on 28 November 2011
postofficebuddy said:
Seece said:
kopstudent89 said:

Yeah, tbh I think the trend has seen the PS3 suffer a bit in the US each year during the holidays. It will definitely be on top in Europe and Japan, but America really seems out of its reach. 

And really if it has never done 500k before in the US, why would it do it now? UC3 is not that big of a system mover so i don't see any reason

Closest they have come BF week is 440k, that was just after the $199 slim released, and had very high September/October sales and was riding a high that holiday.


$199? That's what it is this year, not then. You never answered my question. What was the estimate that you got for the Wii? "Hopefully Sony release an estimate". You don't sound very confident in your the site's numbers. I find it rather ironic that you saw fit to use data given you by VTrigger to make your predictions but now you seem to be writing him off. Regardless, NPD will be interesting.

Yeah I meant $299. I'm not writing him off at all ... the data he has isn't 'ancedotal'.

I didn't come up with the numbers, so I'm as confident as anyone else ... not gonna say we do a better job than Sony am I, hence I'd like the big 3 to clarify.



 

acdcste on 28 November 2011
kopstudent89 said:
Just a thought. 3DS has surpassed the DS's first year according to Nintendo. By october the 3DS sold 1.65 mil Ltd while the DS's first year total was 2.37 million. Does this mean that the 3DS has sold more than 700k already in November?!

Well it did 190,000 week ending 19th Novemeber and you have two weeks worth of figures prior to that as well so maybe just short?