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Forums - Nintendo - Wii sales mindblowing! Just think about it. Wii vs PS2 vs GC

vonboy on 21 March 2009
I like Bacon said:
^You mean on November 19th, not September.

ya i did, i forgot the exact date, and looked on wikipedia for it

 

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150vg$ bet(with haggy) mk wii 2009 worldwide sales > any 360/ps3 game released in 2009.

current mk wii worldwide sales (jan 9th): 553k

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Arius Dion on 21 March 2009

What is the longest a console been on the market without a price cut? I mean is Wii breaking that record as well?

I mean I don't think many people really grasp how historical Wii's sales performance really is. I didn't really put it into context until I read the Source's side note, about Wii selling over 600-700k in every month minus july and some other month. While we take this for granted now, PS2 only did it in the month it dropped its price 100$.

I agree with Sharifad, really. I don't even think it will be any type of obstalce for the Wii to outsell the PS2.



Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:


If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.

bdbdbd on 21 March 2009

@Arius: I believe NES never had a pricecut.



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Sky Render on 21 March 2009

Actually, the NES was sneaky about price cuts. In 1988, the Control Deck ($200; system + 1 controller only) and Deluxe Set ($250; system, 1 controller, R.O.B., Zapper, Duck Hunt, Gyromite) were phased out, and replaced with the Action Set ($150; system, 2 controllers, Zapper, SMB + Duck Hunt) and the Power Set ($200; same as Action Set plus Power Pad and World Class Track Meet). So while technically no set ever received a price cut, discontinued sets were clearly priced higher overall than later ones.



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coolestguyever on 21 March 2009

yeah its selling great, how are the games? Any non-nintendo AAA titles?



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Sky Render on 21 March 2009

I wasn't aware that it mattered who makes the games that people buy by the millions. Oh that's right, it doesn't! Unless your definition of success in this business is something besides "making oodles of money and being adored by the masses".



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TWRoO on 21 March 2009
coolestguyever said:
yeah its selling great, how are the games?

Also great... thanks for asking.

 



Viper1 on 21 March 2009

Market trends suggest the Wii will surpass the PS2. Suggesting otherwise is doing so with only a measure of personal interest and not relevant data.


Console longevity has always been a market factor. If the consumers, publishers and retail support the console...it stays on the market regardless of the introductions of new generations.

PS: I love reading all the revisionist history in here. Fascinating, really.



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Arius Dion on 22 March 2009

^^Isn't it? lol.



Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:


If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.

johnlucas on 22 March 2009
samus aran rules said:

 We have started taking the astonishing Wii sales for granted. Every month that NPD report salesnumber for the system of 600-700 k we think of it as normal (I know I do anyway) but I checked some historic facts that made me realize just how fenomenal the console is doing. Some facts WII vs GC and Wii vs PS2 (NPD):

This month (february) Wii sold 753.000 copies in the US. GC has only managed to tie or beat that number for two months in it´s entire lifetime! Both of which were the month of December with holidaysales.

Dec 2003 GC sold 1, 100, 000 copies.

Dec 2004, 810,000 copies.

Small potato if compared with Wii don´t you agree? I know GC was tiny saleswise but I thought it was an interesting comparison anyway.

The story of Wii is perhaps even more impressive if compared with the alltime champ PS2:

 Quote : Wii has topped 600,000 units in the USA in every calendar month now except for July and August one or more times since it launched. PS2 never topped 600,000 units in a month outside November and December except for in June 2002 when Sony dropped the PS2 price to $200 from $300 : End of quote

Enough about my rant but I think it´s exciting times. We´re clearly witnessing history in the making. A few years back I would never had thought that PS2 would be threatened saleswise by another homeconsole ever (if not by another Sony console) and I´d never thought Nintendo would be back on top. How things change.

 I know the question have been brought up before but what do you think, will Wii eventually outsell PS2?

 

 

It hasn't been overlooked by me. I do the NPD reports on Popzara every month (http://www.popzara.com/pages/952/) & when I'm checking the history of sales I see that Wii is breaking so many of the PS2's records.

I said it here a long time ago. Wii will sell a minimum of 240,000,000 worldwide with a possible maximum of 500,000,000.

I knew it way before the generation started, I know it now.

I'm glad you looked at the history & discovered these results. Nintendo is raising the bar to unbelievable levels & the scary part is we STILL haven't seen nothing yet! The floods have not stopped for this Blue Ocean.

John Lucas



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