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Train wreck on 10 October 2012

— Oct. 18: Microsoft Corp.

no early numbers

— Oct. 24: Nintendo Co.

There is a post on neogaf indicating that Nintendo is going to announce during its earnings a 1 million unit reduction in the number of from 8.3 million to 7.3 million for the Wii U due to a fire...If they cant ship what they thought initially, this may bring a earning downward revision on their part

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=495071

— Nov. 1: Sony Corp.

no early numbers



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bananaking21 on 10 October 2012

this will be interesting. everybody will be down year on year for sure, but the question is by how much?



ethomaz on 10 October 2012

7.3 million Wii U for the holidays? great number.



bananaking21 on 10 October 2012
ethomaz said:
7.3 million Wii U for the holidays? great number.


i think they ment Wii+WiiU



Galaki on 10 October 2012
Train wreck said:

the Wii U due to a fire...If they cant ship what they thought initially, this may bring a earning downward revision on their part

They'll be fine. The fire is part of their artificial shortages plan.



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superchunk on 10 October 2012
bananaking21 said:
ethomaz said:
7.3 million Wii U for the holidays? great number.


i think they ment Wii+WiiU

nope read it... just WiiU... additionally, Nintendo says that at this point there is no reason to believe that fire will negatively effect their production. So 8.3m is still a target number (based on that analysts target).

Man Wii only had ~4m during 2006 holiday and ~7m through March (ended the year with ~17m). If WiiU has ~8m during 2012 holiday and is able to get another ~5m or so by March... it could easily beat Wii's first year... maybe even the entire Gamecube lifetime in that first year alone.

That 8.3m has to be through March 2013. Guess we'll know come October 24th.

Hopefully something in the MS and Sony targets will hint at next gen.



DanneSandin on 10 October 2012
superchunk said:
bananaking21 said:
ethomaz said:
7.3 million Wii U for the holidays? great number.


i think they ment Wii+WiiU

nope read it... just WiiU... additionally, Nintendo says that at this point there is no reason to believe that fire will negatively effect their production. So 8.3m is still a target number (based on that analysts target).

Man Wii only had ~4m during 2006 holiday and ~7m through March (ended the year with ~17m). If WiiU has ~8m during 2012 holiday and is able to get another ~5m or so by March... it could easily beat Wii's first year... maybe even the entire Gamecube lifetime in that first year alone.

That 8.3m has to be through March 2013. Guess we'll know come October 24th.

Hopefully something in the MS and Sony targets will hint at next gen.

Yeah I think so too - it would be crazy by Nintendo to expact to sell 8m WiiU THIS holiday - and it would be even crazier if that actually happened! If they sell 8m+ this holiday alone I predict a life time of 150m+ ;)



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superchunk on 10 October 2012
DanneSandin said:

Yeah I think so too - it would be crazy by Nintendo to expact to sell 8m WiiU THIS holiday - and it would be even crazier if that actually happened! If they sell 8m+ this holiday alone I predict a life time of 150m+ ;)

Wii could of easily broken 8m... hell it would've sold anything produced.

WiiU could just as easily do that in NA. I mean it sold out of all pre-orders in just over a day. 8m is a great starting number if true from a business point of view for Nintendo.



DanneSandin on 10 October 2012
superchunk said:
DanneSandin said:

Yeah I think so too - it would be crazy by Nintendo to expact to sell 8m WiiU THIS holiday - and it would be even crazier if that actually happened! If they sell 8m+ this holiday alone I predict a life time of 150m+ ;)

Wii could of easily broken 8m... hell it would've sold anything produced.

WiiU could just as easily do that in NA. I mean it sold out of all pre-orders in just over a day. 8m is a great starting number if true from a business point of view for Nintendo.

Well, as far as I understand it PS3 also sold out all of their pre-orders... And didn't Wii sell like 3 million? No way WiiU will be able to sell 8m in 2012...



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superchunk on 10 October 2012
DanneSandin said:
superchunk said:
DanneSandin said:

Yeah I think so too - it would be crazy by Nintendo to expact to sell 8m WiiU THIS holiday - and it would be even crazier if that actually happened! If they sell 8m+ this holiday alone I predict a life time of 150m+ ;)

Wii could of easily broken 8m... hell it would've sold anything produced.

WiiU could just as easily do that in NA. I mean it sold out of all pre-orders in just over a day. 8m is a great starting number if true from a business point of view for Nintendo.

Well, as far as I understand it PS3 also sold out all of their pre-orders... And didn't Wii sell like 3 million? No way WiiU will be able to sell 8m in 2012...

Wii sold ~4m and could of easily did over 10m.

But, this 8.3m figure is likly the amount they intend to ship by March 31 2013, which would be 2m over what they shipped for Wii.