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Forums - Sales Discussion - HD Consoles just bouncing back from Christmas (Wii 50% of Market??)

Avinash_Tyagi on 12 February 2008

If only Nintendo could ship like this week every week



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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facher83 on 13 February 2008
Renar said:
facher83 said:
The only way Wii could hold on to 50% is if it becomes a phenomenon beyond even today's thoughts, or has a lifespan far better than the current other two.

But, today you see the Other charts, and Wii's looking at 128077 out of 238079, which is 53.8%. Japan will boost the numbers well against XBox, and overall the sales are great against PS3.

But, 53.8% is not going to cut it.... There's still 6% to make up. It would still have to sell close to 60% week by week for a while to hit that 50% mark.

Did somebody say they needed close to 60%? With 216k for America and Japan to go, this week's number will be very close to 60%.


 I just got on and saw that now....   that's a really good figure by itself, let alone against the others.

More Wiis sold than DS's!  Good lord! That's like, never happened before? (I don't think, but I'm guessing on it)

 Wii Americas for the week is  216,157 / 371,797 = 58.1% "only".

 

I'm going to call this the "Wii Magic Number", meaning the consoles needed to be sold to hit a 50% mark IN ADDITION to matching unit per unit of PS3 and XBox360...   the Wii Magic Number is: 2.7 million

2.7 Million is needed RIGHT NOW to hit 50% market share.  That means if XBox and PS3 sold 300k combined units,  Wii would have to sell 3 million next week to hit 50%.  The difference is 2.7 million right now.

But look at it this way... that's only 12.7% (or 2 months of sales) more than Wii's life-to-date sales.



Numbers: Checker Players > Halo Players

Checkers Age and replayability > Halo Age and replayability

Therefore, Checkers > Halo

So, Checkers is a better game than Halo.

Punisher on 13 February 2008

@Fastrabbit09

"mp3s sound worse than cds but are more functional than cds"

Damn, can i have your ears, if you can make the difference in cd-quality and Mp3 compressed with 320 kbit/s in 44.1 kHz, with normal or close to normal pc-speakers or home stereo system. :p



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