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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Wii >101 Million by the end of the year? Let's SELABREEEIT or cry.

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Seece said:
fory77 said:
Seece said:
Should reach 101.5m shipments (thus sales)

I just want Nintendo to shipout some 500k more so that they can threaten the PS1 :P

PS1 shipped 102.5m. Wii will fall short at minimum 500k, probably 1m tho.

The thing will be discontinued after the holidays IMO.

Nah, everyone will buy one for Smash (thinking it's a Wii U) and sales will ?Hex-Octiple? (x18)



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It was so close to surpassing PS1, but it seems out of reach now.

The Wii's story was a strange one. It started as a sales monster ready to beat all records and ended up fizzling out really quickly. Still, the Wii and DS single-handedly ensure the existence of Nintendo for several more decades. It was that crazy.



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spurgeonryan said:
Can we still buy newDS systems? I Nintendo still shipping anywhere?

I thought it was passed 101 already? According to top csystem charts.


New DS games are on shelves along with 3DS games. I even wonder if there will be more new DS games coming in 2015.



Well, considering that the Wii U is basically just re-using parts from Wii, wouldn't it stand to reason that they could conceivably keep manufacturing those cheap Wii Minis as long as they can? While noone really makes games for it anymore, the few games it got last year still did manage to chart.

Too bad noone apart from Nintendo and Ubisoft built up a legacy on the console to keep supplying it software as a way to balance their books(cheap to make, while selling relatively well to always make a profit). Just Dance was a nice boost for Ubisoft when it released, and it doesn't seem like Wii U will carry on that trend.

Disney Infinity was dropped despite selling well on Wii. I think Wii will always be remembered as a missed opportunity for me. Not just in terms of gameplay, but in terms of its importance to publishers to expand their markets and brands. Just filled with half-hearted tries, and threw up their hands in defeat to go chase the AAA core demographic.

Yeah, that market migrated, but if they had built up a franchise with some weight, they could have migrated their franchise to wherever that market went as well.



It has sold about 500k for the entire year thus far, and to think that there were quite a few that imagined it'd still be moving 10-20 million at this point in its life. The life of the Wii should have taught us a lot but seems to have taught us nothing.
Still; reaching 100 million is a tremendous achievement for a console, getting about half of that in the two first years is downright insane.



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Aj_habfan said:
Unbelievable that it didn't end up passing PS1...

I think Nintendo wanted to reach the 100M benchmark, but didn't really care about beating the PS1.

Sony had to reduce the official MSRP of the PS1 to $49 just to pass over the 100M mark.

Around 13M (~12.86M) PS1 were sold at a MSRP of $49, (FY starts on April 1st, price was cut on May 14th)

with the total amount PS1 shipped being 102.54M.  

Also to note the Wii stayed above the $199 price point quite a bit longer than the PS2.



XanderXT said:
Wow, people here just don't care about the last million of the Wii. Still angry it outsold the PS3 & Xbox 360?


Too be fair not many people have cared at all about the Wii for the past months/years..



foxtail said:

I think Nintendo wanted to reach the 100M benchmark, but didn't really care about beating the PS1.

Sony had to reduce the official MSRP of the PS1 to $49 just to pass over the 100M mark.

Around 13M (~12.86M) PS1 were sold at a MSRP of $49, (FY starts on April 1st, price was cut on May 14th)

with the total amount PS1 shipped being 102.54M.  

Also to note the Wii stayed above the $199 price point quite a bit longer than the PS2.


*cough*inflation*cough*



Troll_Whisperer said:
It was so close to surpassing PS1, but it seems out of reach now.

The Wii's story was a strange one. It started as a sales monster ready to beat all records and ended up fizzling out really quickly. Still, the Wii and DS single-handedly ensure the existence of Nintendo for several more decades. It was that crazy.


Back in 2008, everyone was certain it would pass PS2 easly



Teeqoz said:
foxtail said:

I think Nintendo wanted to reach the 100M benchmark, but didn't really care about beating the PS1.

Sony had to reduce the official MSRP of the PS1 to $49 just to pass over the 100M mark.

Around 13M (~12.86M) PS1 were sold at a MSRP of $49, (FY starts on April 1st, price was cut on May 14th)

with the total amount PS1 shipped being 102.54M.  

Also to note the Wii stayed above the $199 price point quite a bit longer than the PS2.


*cough*inflation*cough*

Even with inflation it's still only $64, but inflation with "consoles" doesn't work anyways because it's not heavily weighted in the CPI.

Look at it this way the PS1 launched at $299 and was reduced to $49, a reduction to 1/6 of its original price.  Wii launched at $249 and is now at $99.