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BTFeather55 on 13 April 2009
gergroy said:
of course you are going to see a decline from the holiday period. Honestly, I have a lot of issues with your threads BTB. I think you might have tunnel vision.

 

     Have you checked out my latest thread over on the offtopic section BTFeather55's Weekly Advice for Young People Part 1?  Did you comment in my What Are your Favorite Vampire Movies thread?

     And I make lots of types of different threads.  It's just that the ones I consider good like asking people to recall their after school memories of watching great tv programs like Spectre Man, Ultra Man, and Space Giants when they were children just tend to get buried off the front page somehow.

     In a couple of minutes, I'm also going to try to make a couple of complimentary threads for the both the Wii and 360.



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peachbuggy on 13 April 2009

I think sales of the Wii will be up this year but next year they will be mega. It will be the Wii's peak year. Then maybe in 2011 sometime they will begin to tail off just a little.



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saicho on 14 April 2009
Ail said:
saicho said:
Ail said:

Average worldwide weekly sales( keeping January out as wii had stock issues and it was still the follow off the holydays) .

 

February 2009 :

Wii : 422k

Xbox 360 :200k

PS3 : 144k

 

March 2009 : 

Wii : 354k

Xbox360 : 190k

PS3 : 188k

 

April 2009 (only 1 week) :

Wii : 295k

Xbox360 : 149k

PS3 : 143k

 

March was down compared to February for the Wii but not for HD consoles ( 360 slightly down, PS3 up).

So far April is down for all 3.

 

For reference :

April 2008 

Wii : 365k average

Xbox360 : 114k

PS3 : 150k

 

If things don't change I'm expecting Xbox360 to be up 20% compared to 2008, PS3 to be down 10% and Wii to be down 20%.

 

Generally speaking Wii will most likely be down 25-30% in Q2 2009 compared to Q2 2008.

For the year or for Q2?

 

Q2.

 

It's too early to tell how the year will do.

My expectation is that first 6 months of 2009 = first 6 months of 2008.

We need to wait what Nintendo announces for the rest of the year and see how well Wii Sport Resort does before we have an idea on how well the Wii will do for the holydays.

 

If I had to make a guess now I would say 2009 Wii sales will be down 5-10% compared to 2008....But it's really a wild guess...

 

It's all relative.

Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit were released in Q2 last year and SSBB in March. This year we have Excitebot, Punch Out! and DSi launch. Certainly the focus for Nintendo is a little different which might result in a "slow down" for Wii.

However, if we are calling Wii sales falling off based only on that, are we gonna call a Wii "come back" if it outsells 2008 in Q3 and/or Q4?



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Ail on 14 April 2009
saicho said:
Ail said:
saicho said:
Ail said:

Average worldwide weekly sales( keeping January out as wii had stock issues and it was still the follow off the holydays) .

 

February 2009 :

Wii : 422k

Xbox 360 :200k

PS3 : 144k

 

March 2009 : 

Wii : 354k

Xbox360 : 190k

PS3 : 188k

 

April 2009 (only 1 week) :

Wii : 295k

Xbox360 : 149k

PS3 : 143k

 

March was down compared to February for the Wii but not for HD consoles ( 360 slightly down, PS3 up).

So far April is down for all 3.

 

For reference :

April 2008 

Wii : 365k average

Xbox360 : 114k

PS3 : 150k

 

If things don't change I'm expecting Xbox360 to be up 20% compared to 2008, PS3 to be down 10% and Wii to be down 20%.

 

Generally speaking Wii will most likely be down 25-30% in Q2 2009 compared to Q2 2008.

For the year or for Q2?

 

Q2.

 

It's too early to tell how the year will do.

My expectation is that first 6 months of 2009 = first 6 months of 2008.

We need to wait what Nintendo announces for the rest of the year and see how well Wii Sport Resort does before we have an idea on how well the Wii will do for the holydays.

 

If I had to make a guess now I would say 2009 Wii sales will be down 5-10% compared to 2008....But it's really a wild guess...

 

It's all relative.

Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit were released in Q2 last year and SSBB in March. This year we have Excitebot, Punch Out! and DSi launch. Certainly the focus for Nintendo is a little different which might result in a "slow down" for Wii.

However, if we are calling Wii sales falling off based only on that, are we gonna call a Wii "come back" if it outsells 2008 in Q3 and/or Q4?

 

I'm not expecting Wii sales to fall drastically.

But I think they will fall down to more reasonnable levels now that the production is able to match the demand.

280-300k/week looks to be the average for me in the next 3-4 months....

Even with a good title I am doubtfull about Holydays 2009 beating 2008.

But if the Wii can manage to sell roughly the same number of consoles in 2009 than in 2008 it will still be a very good year for Nintendo...

But when we look back at 2008-2009 in a few years I think we will find out that these were the years the Wii peaked, the jury is still out if the peak will be 2008 or 2009 though...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

BTFeather55 on 14 April 2009

I think Monster Hunter G could do well here in the States and beef up Wii sales especially with its cute commercials.



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peachbuggy on 14 April 2009
Ail said:
saicho said:
Ail said:
saicho said:
Ail said:

Average worldwide weekly sales( keeping January out as wii had stock issues and it was still the follow off the holydays) .

 

February 2009 :

Wii : 422k

Xbox 360 :200k

PS3 : 144k

 

March 2009 : 

Wii : 354k

Xbox360 : 190k

PS3 : 188k

 

April 2009 (only 1 week) :

Wii : 295k

Xbox360 : 149k

PS3 : 143k

 

March was down compared to February for the Wii but not for HD consoles ( 360 slightly down, PS3 up).

So far April is down for all 3.

 

For reference :

April 2008 

Wii : 365k average

Xbox360 : 114k

PS3 : 150k

 

If things don't change I'm expecting Xbox360 to be up 20% compared to 2008, PS3 to be down 10% and Wii to be down 20%.

 

Generally speaking Wii will most likely be down 25-30% in Q2 2009 compared to Q2 2008.

For the year or for Q2?

 

Q2.

 

It's too early to tell how the year will do.

My expectation is that first 6 months of 2009 = first 6 months of 2008.

We need to wait what Nintendo announces for the rest of the year and see how well Wii Sport Resort does before we have an idea on how well the Wii will do for the holydays.

 

If I had to make a guess now I would say 2009 Wii sales will be down 5-10% compared to 2008....But it's really a wild guess...

 

It's all relative.

Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit were released in Q2 last year and SSBB in March. This year we have Excitebot, Punch Out! and DSi launch. Certainly the focus for Nintendo is a little different which might result in a "slow down" for Wii.

However, if we are calling Wii sales falling off based only on that, are we gonna call a Wii "come back" if it outsells 2008 in Q3 and/or Q4?

 

I'm not expecting Wii sales to fall drastically.

But I think they will fall down to more reasonnable levels now that the production is able to match the demand.

280-300k/week looks to be the average for me in the next 3-4 months....

Even with a good title I am doubtfull about Holydays 2009 beating 2008.

But if the Wii can manage to sell roughly the same number of consoles in 2009 than in 2008 it will still be a very good year for Nintendo...

But when we look back at 2008-2009 in a few years I think we will find out that these were the years the Wii peaked, the jury is still out if the peak will be 2008 or 2009 though...

I say 2010 will be the peak year.....

 



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TheSource on 14 April 2009

I don't think Wii will have a peak week as high as in April to June 2008 but on average because Mario Kart and Wii Fit (and Smash in Europe) were huge but the Wii will probably be up a little bit anyway. Sales in Japan won't be down as much as the previous quarter either because of Monster Hunter G and Wii Sports Resort.

Punch Out is going to be pretty big though. It sold over 3m units on the NES, and did well on SNES too. So Punch Out and the Sega/EA sports games utilizing motion plus in them should provide small spikes from the current level of Wii sales.

Q2 could conceivably be down or flat though overall and in the west. Q3 looks like the big pre-Christmas quarter this year with Wii Sports Resort coming in July.

 



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MGS4COD4HALO3 on 14 April 2009

I think that it is the recession that we are having right now, but when it passes you will see wii sales pick back up. Plus the wii sale is still better then the 360 even though the wii cost more.



Orca_Azure on 14 April 2009

Wii sales slowing down after a few years? That's really....Wiird



ps3-sales! on 14 April 2009

Ya holiday numbers will always be more significant than everyday numbers.



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