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TheBigFatJ on 28 August 2008
The Ghost of RubangB said:

Last week was a bit of a letdown, with no % gains, so it put my projections off a bit, but don't worry, it's still gonna break 50% by Christmas or I'll kill myself.

 

Tox clause

You realize that watching the percentage increase makes no sense at all mathematically. Here's a very simple mathematic number:

The Wii needs to outsell the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined by more than 220,000 units per week on average in order to reach 50% this year.

This week the Wii outsold the PS360 by 43396 units and was more than 176604 units short of being on pace to reach 50% by the year's end. To be on pace for 50%, it would have had to sell 482024 units this week. During a better week for the PS360, it would have to sell more units to coincide with how many more units the PS360 sold. With the impending 360 price drop and the consistently improving performance of the PS3, the Wii could very well have to average well over 600K units/week by the end of September to be on pace.

To give you an idea of how insurmountable 50% has become -- if the Wii is this short of its goal over the next 5 weeks selling only about 44,000 more than the PS360 (which seems like it will be the likely case) the Wii would then have to sell more than 290,000 units per week to catch up.

Look, I've been predicting that the Wii may reach 50% this year since January -- I made the first thread on it. But it's not gonna happen -- the Wii isn't approaching the number nearly fast enough.  Even if the Wii sells 5 million units in December, which will not happen this year, and the PS360 only sell 2 million units combined, which also will not happen, the Wii would come up short. 

So you can't possibly say that the Wii will have a huge holiday to pass the PS360. Even an unbelievably big holiday for the Wii and an unbelievably bad holiday for the PS360 wouldn't do it.



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Paul on 28 August 2008
TheBigFatJ said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:

Last week was a bit of a letdown, with no % gains, so it put my projections off a bit, but don't worry, it's still gonna break 50% by Christmas or I'll kill myself.

 

Tox clause

You realize that watching the percentage increase makes no sense at all mathematically. Here's a very simple mathematic number:

The Wii needs to outsell the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined by more than 220,000 units per week on average in order to reach 50% this year.

This week the Wii outsold the PS360 by 43396 units and was more than 176604 units short of being on pace to reach 50% by the year's end. To be on pace for 50%, it would have had to sell 482024 units this week. During a better week for the PS360, it would have to sell more units to coincide with how many more units the PS360 sold. With the impending 360 price drop and the consistently improving performance of the PS3, the Wii could very well have to average well over 600K units/week by the end of September to be on pace.

To give you an idea of how insurmountable 50% has become -- if the Wii is this short of its goal over the next 5 weeks selling only about 44,000 more than the PS360 (which seems like it will be the likely case) the Wii would then have to sell more than 290,000 units per week to catch up.

Look, I've been predicting that the Wii may reach 50% this year since January -- I made the first thread on it. But it's not gonna happen -- the Wii isn't approaching the number nearly fast enough.  Even if the Wii sells 5 million units in December, which will not happen this year, and the PS360 only sell 2 million units combined, which also will not happen, the Wii would come up short. 

So you can't possibly say that the Wii will have a huge holiday to pass the PS360. Even an unbelievably big holiday for the Wii and an unbelievably bad holiday for the PS360 wouldn't do it.

That's just great, now Rubang is going to have to kill himself, nice work and logic TheBigFatHead.

 



kylohk on 28 August 2008

You're going to kill yourself? Especially since it's more or less mathematically impossible to win that bet!

So er.... can I have a look at your will?



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kylohk on 28 August 2008

^I'll miss you then, lol.



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trestres on 28 August 2008
RolStoppable said:
Soriku said:
We haven't had a thread like this in...2 weeks. D:

If the Wii doesn't reach 50% by January 1, 2009 I will stop playing Tales and KH forever and sell my Wii, buy a PS3, and say KH3 and new Tales titles will hit the PS3 "very soon." (although I will not play them like I said)

Honestly, you were better off if you would just kill yourself.

 

LOL, poor Soriku and Rubang. I will miss you guys.



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scottie on 28 August 2008
dougsdad0629 said:
Ya know....I love my Wii, but I'm really tired of retard after retard who thinks every single week's worth of sales or every little percentage point gained or lost deserves its own thread. I'm gonna weigh in with a hearty "who gives a shit?"

 

Oh noes, people wasting their time on the interforums - this must be stopped!

 

Anyway, good to hit 47, it woulda happened last week but there were some downwards adjustments.



brute on 28 August 2008

Wii will hit 50% by the week of christmas,mark my words.The only ay it wont reach it is if the effect of the negative sales kick in this year.



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|_emmiwinks on 28 August 2008
stellabelg said:
You guys always open a thread like this one for every %?

Yuck .....Oh well.


ANOTHER REASON TO PARTY!!

 

Yeah, they dont have any good games to play on their Wii's so they spend their time talking about how its winning the console wars.

jk, dont kill me.

But God I really hope it doesnt hit 50% before christmas, just to see the epic crow threads. I love epic crow threads.



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Mr.Y on 28 August 2008

If they manage to release Captain Rainbow sometime before Christmas it'll skyrocket to somewhere around 55-56%.



appolose on 28 August 2008

50% will be the best present I've ever gotten.



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