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Forums - Sales Discussion - Incredibly big dropoff of Wii-sales this week in europe.

Avinash_Tyagi on 19 February 2008
brute said:
didnt wii also have supply problems in japan lately

 I think Japan is the one region where there are no supply issues, at least that's what people have been saying



 

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Hawk on 19 February 2008
Sullla said:
superchunk said:
Nah, if you look at the history for more than one week this is just normal fluctuation.

Exactly. Guys, the sales of every platform go up and down slightly on a week by week basis. It's not a supply crisis EVERY time Wii sales go down.


 Too many people seem to put too much important on changes from a single week to the next.



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brute on 19 February 2008
Avinash_Tyagi said:
brute said:
didnt wii also have supply problems in japan lately

 I think Japan is the one region where there are no supply issues, at least that's what people have been saying


hm i thought that with the release of SSBB it would of gotten supply problems again



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Munkeh111 on 19 February 2008

No the fad is over (sarcasm) Game.co.uk have had it in stock for at least 3 days !!!!!!!!!!!!! The longest I have ever seen it in stock, and amazon.co.uk have had it in stock for a few hours, so people must have stopped buying the wii, it is obvious (I realise that I am ignoring the fact that it outsold the PS3 by about 35k and that it is just a lack of stock)



akuma587 on 19 February 2008

Probably just normal deviations.



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dschumm on 19 February 2008

Normal flucuations with supply contrainst.

Nintendo is obviously not shipping regular amounts, and if Europes is anyhing like the US stores will hold Wiis to combine shipments or to attract people in for other sales. This also doesn't take into account the unknown time it takes to make it through retailer distribution systems.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 19 February 2008
brute said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
brute said:
didnt wii also have supply problems in japan lately

 I think Japan is the one region where there are no supply issues, at least that's what people have been saying


hm i thought that with the release of SSBB it would of gotten supply problems again


 Perhaps, although I think Y-koron was saying its availible in most staores



 

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)

dajeff on 19 February 2008

maybe the Huge US numbers last week could be attributed to NA getting some of Others alottment. I would assume that Nintendo wants to get the userbase as large as possible for Smash.



I like Bacon on 19 February 2008
superchunk said:
Nah, if you look at the history for more than one week this is just normal fluctuation.

I agree with this.

SiegWahrheit on 19 February 2008
Mnementh said:
Only 100K (140K last week). All consoles had some drops, but the Wii the most. Is Nintendo stockpiling for US-release of Brawl?

 Well, there IS a dropoff (as there has been one last week, too) but (besides i may just be normal fluctuations, as some of you already said) the sales are still above the last year's "normal" level... Instead I would claim the last few weeks' sales have been extraordinary high because of the first large supplies after christmas went hand in hand with a still large demand of people who weren't able to get a Wii before christmas... So now, the sales just slow down to normal level while the REAL big games are still a few weeks away...