Locked: It's official, in NA the fad is over

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Kayanator on 07 February 2008

Japanese hardware numbers are 100k according to both famitsu an media create.

So no NA supply was diverted to Japan. Yet NA number are below 100k, well below European numbers which is a smaller market.

In NA at least, the fad is over.

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RSEagle on 07 February 2008

I wouldn't say it's over, but not as phenomenonally strong as before. Trust me, the Wii is still popular.

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mmnin on 07 February 2008

Didn't you already make this thread?

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Avinash_Tyagi on 07 February 2008

Wii is still sold out in NA, how can you sell what you don't have?

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Dolla Dolla on 07 February 2008

RolStoppable said:
What's the current price of a Wii on ebay?

Aboot 350USD.

The fad was over the day the Wii launched. Did ya get that memo, OP?

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J.U.N.O on 07 February 2008

No great games coming out... SSBB and MK should give a boost.

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dtekdahl00 on 07 February 2008

I'm willing to bet a permaban that the NA wii numbers will increase every week for the next month. That seems like a VERY safe bet. This "Wii is a fad" crap is pathetic.

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pichu_pichu on 07 February 2008

Yeah, wii still in short supply

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stof on 07 February 2008

This week - 90,601 (-18%) 9,086,788
Last week - 111,053 (+135%) 8,996,187
Prior Week - 47,304 (-18%) 8,885,134
Prior week - 57,727 (-64%) 8,837,830

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