The reason why Nintendo is not having huge sales in US...

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Onimusha12 on 15 October 2008

Now if only there were games to buy for the Wii this holiday season.

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Gorgory on 15 October 2008

agree with onimusha =(

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DMeisterJ on 15 October 2008

w00t!

Go Ninty!

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Gorgory on 15 October 2008

agree with Rol :'(

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bigjon on 15 October 2008

Hmmm, does this mean 50% more Wiis for Others too?

If so the Wii will make a run at 50 million... Most likely falling short but 1-2 million.

End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million 3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

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RolStoppable said:

Gorgory said:
agree with Rol :'(

Nintendo has abandoned the hardcore.

You've seen the light.

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c0rd on 15 October 2008

That's interesting - with all the talk of records breaking, that means the Wii expected to outsell the DS in America? The DS did outsell the Wii by about 50% last holiday season, though, and seeing how it's been up YoY I dunno...

Btw, noname's gif is awesome.

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agree with my previous agreement with rol )';

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Millennium said:

Soriku said:
50%? Woah. How much would they ship then? Like 3.6 mil?

I think Reggie's only talking about the US. Maybe they're dedicating the entire November boost to the NA market; that should work out to roughly the proportions Reggie is mentioning.

This news has been around a while actually... The Source even mentioned it in a news article

The 50% increase is refering to USA, for the quarter, compared to last year.

VGC has sales in Americas at over 3.3 million for Oct-Dec.... 50% increase would be 5 million for the next three months (well we are half a week in sales wise)

So The Americas sales should be somewhere around 19-19.5 million by the end of the year.

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Edit... good god I left this window open a while, there were only a few replies when I read through this.... and yeah I used sales instead of shipments like I should have done... so Nintendo will be shpping about 5.5 million to the Americas this quarter.