@Zucas... yes I wasn't expecting Wii to be so high the last 2 weeks, so I may need to downsize my Wii prediction slightly (waiting till I see the fiscals first, as Wii sales are still based on shipments as much as demand)
@Zucas... yes I wasn't expecting Wii to be so high the last 2 weeks, so I may need to downsize my Wii prediction slightly (waiting till I see the fiscals first, as Wii sales are still based on shipments as much as demand)
I thought I had to bump it now, or there might not come in any more predictions. When does the voting close?
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261
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TWRoO said: @Zucas... yes I wasn't expecting Wii to be so high the last 2 weeks, so I may need to downsize my Wii prediction slightly (waiting till I see the fiscals first, as Wii sales are still based on shipments as much as demand) |
Yea fiscals will certainly help haha. Yea when is that going to be released?
Zucas said:
Yea fiscals will certainly help haha. Yea when is that going to be released? |
Nintendo has one on the 30th. That's 2 or 3 days until I believe. Whoa, I don't know what date it is!
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261
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Oyvoyvoyv said:
Nintendo has one on the 30th. That's 2 or 3 days until I believe. Whoa, I don't know what date it is! |
Well that's tomorrow but it's already tomorrow in Japan haha and most of the world haha.
Zucas said:
Well that's tomorrow but it's already tomorrow in Japan haha and most of the world haha. |
Yeah, actually is here too. What will the financial report contain?
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261
That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS
Oyvoyvoyv said:
Yeah, actually is here too. What will the financial report contain? |
Shipments in the quarter along with allocations to which regions, all the finance stuff such as revenue, profits, expenditures, and shipments of games if we are lucky.
Zucas said:
Shipments in the quarter along with allocations to which regions, all the finance stuff such as revenue, profits, expenditures, and shipments of games if we are lucky. |
Awesome. Can't wait, I've never really seen a shipment report before, despite having been at VGChartz for 4 of them.
Do we get regional breakdowns for games too if we are lucky? Seems to me as if we are undertracking MKWii in Americas and overtracking in Others, at least looking at Chart-Track and NPD as counters.
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261
That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS
Yes you'll get region breakdowns for games if shown. And yes we are undertracking MK Wii in America haha.
Here is a link to the Nintendo report: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2008/081030e.pdf
Nintendo combines Q1 and Q2 into a half year report, so to get quarterly sales you need to deduct the figures from the previous quarter (if anyone has a link please post it so I can go into regional detail)
At the end of June 2008 Wii shipments had reached 29.62 million, and the latest report shows 34.55 million Wiis have been shipped through September 2008, giving a worldwide quarterly figure of 4.93 million.
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The forecast for the end of this fiscal year has been raised once again, it was originally forecast for 25 million Wii to be shipped for this fiscal year, but that was increased to 26.5 million last quarter, and up to 27.5 million in this report. This would put the Wii lifetime shipments just short of 52 million by the end of March 2009.
Given that the current rate of production is 2.4 million per month. The minimum number of shipped consoles for the end of 2008 should be 51.95 - (2.4*3) = 44.75. However as last year, Nintendo will almost certainly be shipping a number of consoles by air for December, that would normally have been shipped in January. Going by my estimations from the differences in shipping and production rates, last year about 2-3 weeks worth of stock was shipped which at the time was 900k to 1350k.... however with the increased production, this year 2-3 weeks worth of stock is 1200k to 1800k
So using those numbers the shipment figure for the end of the year should be between 45.95 and 46.55 million. Take from that what you will regarding sales to customers, it depends on how high you think the demand is for how sold out the Wii gets. It is not likely to be sold out to the same degree as last year when the difference between VGC and shipments is about 900k.