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Dragon007 on 17 May 2008

Looking at the OP's sig he's been wrong before and his predictions are just downright ridiculous.

60 million by the end of 2008?

What have you been smoking? They'd need an average of 5-6 million sales per month.



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darthdevidem01 on 17 May 2008

Lets see

hopefully this prediction won't flop like your MGS 4 ones..



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Oyvoyvoyv on 17 May 2008

This isn't as far out as many of your other predictions, and it might happen.

It could average 1M a month from now on and out, due to spike in holiday season clearing up for what it hasn't sold before. 1M average could easily happen, 1M every month is hard for 08.



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Slimebeast on 17 May 2008

Spectacular yet terrible predictions from this guy as usual.


So far this year, Jan-April, VGC has these numbers per region:
NA: 590,000 per month (USA would then be 540,000)
EU/Others: 590,000 per month
Jap: 275,000 per month
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total WW: 1.455,000 per month

Like some people have said, if Nintento ups production to 2.4 million per month (and that was speculation from an outside analyst, right?) they will probably stuff some of that to Holiday season.

2.4 x 12 = 29 million consoles. 9 million of that is Nov+Dec sales.

Remains 20 million for 10 months= 2 mill per month. That is 37% higher than sales so far in this year (Jan-Apr).

A 37% increase of the USA number of 540,000 would mean 740,000 Wiis per month. Still an enormous amount, but not regular millions.



reverie on 17 May 2008

Big deal. Wii shipments are soon going to be at 2.4 million, and America gets 40%+ of Wii shipments. 40%+ of 2.4 million is 1 million.

The perfect home console would probably plateau at American sales of 25 million per year, with 5 million per quarter and 10 million in the Christmas quarter. The Wii is still pretty far away from that.



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DMeisterJ on 17 May 2008

Wasn't your last prediction that Nintendo would raise supply to 4.1 million units/month this fiscal year, to meet your lofty prediction of 60 million Wiis sold LTD by Dec 31, 08?

Did that happen? hrm...



reverie on 17 May 2008

Slimebeast said:
Nintento ups production to 2.4 million per month (and that was speculation from an outside analyst, right?) 

  Nope, Iwata announced it at the Annual Report Briefing. They're going to arrive at 2.4 million monthly capacity by June.

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Neos on 17 May 2008


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DMeisterJ on 17 May 2008
Neos said:

ROFL!

Bet they wish they could take that back now.



DMeisterJ on 17 May 2008
johnlucas said:
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We are 1 1/2 years, 1.5 years, 1 year and 6 months into the lifespan of the Nintendo Wii and STILL it's like we have never left launch time way back in November of 2006. You can never find them in stores on a regular basis and it's like luck running into one in the wild.

<snip>

John Lucas


Just wanted to focus on this statement for a moment.

In any other business structure, isn't not (sorry for the double negative) having your product on store shelves is usually a bad thing and means somethign is wrong?   We were just going over supply and demand in my Business class before the semester ended, and my professor pointed out the Wii, so we had a convo on that.  And we all know that it's very popular, but 18 months after launch and it still being hard to be found has to have some kind of effect on sales right?  That's what we were debating.