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Wii sales have been real low recently. Is it supply or lower demand? I ask because in the past you would have one low week followed by a high week so it was very obvious it was supply. But I think the sales have been low a few weeks in a row. And at a time when Nintendo has apparently increased production.



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I expect at least 3 different % threads, and one of those to be one percent off the mark.

Other than that, the August time blues keep on a rollin'.



Zucas said:
Squilliam said:
DMeisterJ said:
Wii is up some, still supply constrained (?)

PS3 up considerably from last week (~18 percent) Why?

The Wii has been pretty much down for a month... Supply constrained doesn't explain it so much because of the stead supply for the previous month and the fact that Nintendo has increased production. I hate to say anything like this but could the Wii be reaching some sort of saturation point with its current market?

 

Well it was supposed to reach a point of saturation sometime in the summer, August probably being that month.  But when it reached one we were expecting mroe around 150k a week type things.  I don't think this is that point of saturation considering such a dropoff wouldn't fit any trends to date.  But who knows if we are even getting Wii sales numbers right.

 

To be honest its hard to say, because the PS3 and Xbox 360 are being wacky as well its hard to infer anything from the sales trend of the Wii at this point. Steady or increasing sales for the PS360 would indicate possibly there some sort of saturation in the Wii specifical market segments.

At the moment I'll just throw up my hands and say that it'll take another 2 weeks or so of data to really indicate anything. Theres just too much noise, and its hard to even say that the data is accurate given that there are shortages popping up in different places which throws everything off, like with the Xbox 360 sales being overtracked not too long ago for a similar reason IMO.

 



Tease.

Pretty lame week. And leave those % threads to Rubang.



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omg 360 being outsold by it both supply constrained rivals.

by more than 50k with a new IP release.

both companies snagged 0.1% like nothing!.



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15M ps3



And this is after the 360 price drop?



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DaSimkin said:
And this is after the 360 price drop?

Yes! xD

 



Tease.

Blacksaber said:
Stats87 said:

Has the Wii even had a big release recently? The last one was....Mario Kart?

What's big on the horizon this fall? Animal Crossing and maybe ToS:DotNW? (if the latter even counts as "big"

 

In which way big? In the eyes of the public De Blob could do that.

 

I don't want to provide a raw number, but a game that will have people stand up and go "i gotta go by a Wii now"

 



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Strange about Wii, not that big number, but still sold out on Amazon, stockpilling for Christmas?

p.s. hmm, just looked to http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=sv_vg_4
what with all those ps3 games showing up in top25?



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2009.04.30 - PS3 will OUTSELL x360 atleast by the middle of 2010. Japan+Europe > NA.


Gran Turismo 3 - 1,06 mln. in 3 weeks with around 4 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Gran Turismo 4 - 1,16 mln. with 18 mln. PS2 on the launch.

Final Fantasy X - around 2 mln. with 5 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Final Fantasy X-2 - 2.4 mln. with 12 mln. PS2 on the launch.

 

1.8 mln. PS3 today(2008.01.17) in Japan. Now(2009.04.30) 3.16 mln. PS3 were sold in Japan.
PS3 will reach 4 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 25k.

PS3 may reach 5 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 50k.
PS2 2001 vs PS3 2008 sales numbers =) + New games released in Japan by 2009 that passed 100k so far