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Lyrikalstylez on 12 August 2013

I'll buy a Wii for 50 bux and a Wii u for 150, make it happen Nintendo!



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travis on 12 August 2013

Why does Wikipedia puts the PS at 102,49 millions shipped units? With this number it would be more likely...



Cheebee on 12 August 2013
travis said:
Why does Wikipedia puts the PS at 102,49 millions shipped units? With this number it would be more likely...

'Cos that's the official number, and  not the VGC one.



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AnthonyW86 on 12 August 2013

It's funny because it's the same situation as with Wii-U. It doesn't need are price cut, it needs games.



Seece on 12 August 2013
spurgeonryan said:
Well after looking at the tools section of this site, it seems that November - late December of last year the Wii pushed out about 2 million units.
A strong price cut, could keep that from dropping too much.
Then 20-25 thousand world wide for another 100 weeks?
I think it is like Seece says, depends on how long it is out. Nintendo has kept the DS going despite it selling really bad. I think maybe they are waiting for a Christmas Price cut now that the 3DS is doing great it should not hurt it much. Then kill it off around E3 or something.
But if stays out for another 100 weeks at least, that would mean another Christmas as well.
So it seems plausible still. If's and maybe's....

I didn't really say that, I think it'll be discontinued by early 2015 at latest.



 

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Seece on 12 August 2013
spurgeonryan said:
Seece said:
spurgeonryan said:
Well after looking at the tools section of this site, it seems that November - late December of last year the Wii pushed out about 2 million units.
A strong price cut, could keep that from dropping too much.
Then 20-25 thousand world wide for another 100 weeks?
I think it is like Seece says, depends on how long it is out. Nintendo has kept the DS going despite it selling really bad. I think maybe they are waiting for a Christmas Price cut now that the 3DS is doing great it should not hurt it much. Then kill it off around E3 or something.
But if stays out for another 100 weeks at least, that would mean another Christmas as well.
So it seems plausible still. If's and maybe's....

I didn't really say that, I think it'll be discontinued by early 2015 at latest.


I was only agreeing with part of what you said.

 

So 70-90 weeks, or maybe E-3 time frame? Which would include 2 Christmas's.

 

What do you think about those Wikipedia numbers? Can they be trusted?

100.04 for Wii according to them, and PS1 is considerably smaller than what we have here.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/historical_data/pdf/consolidated_sales_e1306.pdf


Wii has about 2.5m~ to ship to overtake PS1. Nintendo have forecast 2m thos FY, but they haven't hit (or even got near) a FY forecast in years, I'm pretty sure they're deceiving investors or they're very naive about their hardwares chances/success. The latter is more worrying. So yeah, it's not hitting 2m this FY. It's dead in Japan, and it's selling in worse in Europe/elsewhere than in the US, which is currently it's top market.

I reckon this is how Wii shipments will pan out from now on

Q3 - 200k
Q4 - 800k
Q1 - 150k
Q2 - 100k
Q3 - 50k
Q4 - 200k
Discontinued

For a grand total of around 101.9m~



 

foxtail on 13 August 2013

The last official Sony numbers have the PS at 102.49m.  

The last official Nintendo numbers have the Wii at 100.04m. 

That's only a 2.45m difference between the two.

I think with the time the Wii has left it could do it.

I also remember reading the following article last year about introducing the Wii to more of Latin America and Eastern Europe:

Nintendo sees next opportunity for Wii success in Latin America, Eastern Europe

By Ben Gilbert posted Sep 13th, 2012 at 4:39 PM

"We will continue to sell the Wii," Nintendo America president and CEO Reggie Fils-Aime told investors today in a Q&A followup to the company's big Wii U event in New York City. "In the US, the Wii has sold about 40 million units. We believe that there continues to be an opportunity with the Wii." However, where Fils-Aime sees the most opportunity may not be where you expect. "I'm responsible for Canada, and Latin America as well," he said. "We think there's opportunity in both of those markets, especially Latin America." The Wii is currently offered by Nintendo in North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe, but not Latin America. The Wii ranges from $140 to $250, depending on what it comes with.

 "You can reach price points, you can reach consumers that, candidly, we won't be able to reach with the Wii U. That's gonna continue to be an opportunity," he said. Fils-Aime and Nintendo also have their eyes on Eastern Europe. "On a global base, certainly there are markets in Eastern Europe. There are a number of other markets where if Wii has an attractive price point, it'll do well."

He also stood behind the console continuing to sell in its currently available markets alongside the Wii U after the new console launches this November. "We do believe there's still opportunity for the Wii, and we will continue to sell the Wii side-by-side for some period of time." Unsurprisingly, he didn't say exactly how long Nintendo is planning that support, nor would he say if we should expect a price drop for the aging console, but if we had to guess, we'd say "The Wii will drop in price" and "soon." -source