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CrashMan on 13 February 2008

Will Wii maintain an average of around 0.5 mil/week for the rest of 2008?

Do you think a production increase will bump the average up to over 500k/week for the year?

If it does, where is the ceiling?

At the rate of almost 500k/week, the Wii will have around 40 Mil at the end of the year.

Is that low, high, just right?

 



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kingofwale on 13 February 2008

I think it will maintain more of a 400-350K per week, until big releases. then it takes off like crazy.

But all this is pointless if Nintendo can't produce 2 million units per months like they PROMISED over 1 years ago.



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konnichiwa on 13 February 2008

=p Difficult question.

It probably reach 40 million but I guess we will see a small pricedrop at the end of the year;






kopstudent89 on 13 February 2008

i think a bit high, but just a tad... it really depends on alot of factors! but maybe just right.



TheSource on 13 February 2008

Wii averaged north of 300k/week in 2007.

If it can average 250-320k/week in Jan-Oct 2008, then weekly averages for the year will end up more like 400k-500k... upto 27 million Wiis sold in 2008.  Just can't see production topping that, and any assumptions about demand are just estimates.



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PSaiki on 13 February 2008

When price drops happens, maybe it can sell an average bigger than 500k/week.



vaio on 13 February 2008

No, it won´t the time has come for the fad to die out and besides all the marioboys have allready bought one and very few remain to buy one then add 1 or 2 million more casuals that will bey one and the fad dies out, this is the year the fad dies.



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brute on 13 February 2008

i think it has a shot plus during christmas it will sell mush more then that and probably pass 50 million



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Stever89 on 13 February 2008
kingofwale said:
I think it will maintain more of a 400-350K per week, until big releases. then it takes off like crazy.

But all this is pointless if Nintendo can't produce 2 million units per months like they PROMISED over 1 years ago.

Wait, they promised they'd be producing more than 2 million over 1 years ago? You mean... When the Wii launched? Wow. I guess they underestimated demand right from the get-go. Too bad they haven't upped production at all in the last year. And it's really a shame that they aren't the fastest selling console in history. Oh wait. They did increase production. At least twice. And oh yeah. They are the fastest selling console in history, except for the DS, which may or may not have sold faster. Don't know. And yet they have to increase production AGAIN.



PSaiki on 13 February 2008
vaio said:
No, it won´t the time has come for the fad to die out and besides all the marioboys have allready bought one and very few remain to buy one then add 1 or 2 million more casuals that will bey one and the fad dies out, this is the year the fad dies.

I willbump this thread next year.