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DaveD on 14 April 2009

It will rise in sales when better games come out
Plus they haven't had new color schemes or a price cut they have plenty of cards to play



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Bobbuffalo on 14 April 2009

lol at Ail and BTfeather. They are awaiting so anxiously to see the wii fall that they distort and twist data to their odd weird vision.



Oyvoyvoyv on 14 April 2009
BTFeather55 said:
On Topic the Wii saw a dropoff of over 50% in Others this week from last week and last week was the lowest week in several weeks following another week that was the lowest week in a while.

 

 Eh? It's up 10% from last week, not down 50%.



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BTFeather55 on 14 April 2009
Oyvoyvoyv said:
BTFeather55 said:
On Topic the Wii saw a dropoff of over 50% in Others this week from last week and last week was the lowest week in several weeks following another week that was the lowest week in a while.

 

 Eh? It's up 10% from last week, not down 50%.

     Oh, False alarm then.  I was thinking it sold 299,000 in Others last week instead of total.

 



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dahuman on 14 April 2009
BTFeather55 said:
dahuman said:
BTFeather55 said:
On Topic the Wii saw a dropoff of over 50% in Others this week from last week and last week was the lowest week in several weeks following another week that was the lowest week in a while.

 

makes sense if you look at the software side, it's not hard to figure out, not like it's the end of the world for Wii.

Yeah, but if Microsoft or Sony had a big game coming out  now, they could take a bit of advantage of this.

 

 

do you mean 1st party or 3rd party? MS has no good 1st party games, and Sony are coming up with some stuff, and there are games coming out for them too, but it still won't hurt Wii no matter how big they are, it's not like a turn over will ever happen at this point.



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BTFeather55 on 14 April 2009
dahuman said:
BTFeather55 said:
dahuman said:
BTFeather55 said:
On Topic the Wii saw a dropoff of over 50% in Others this week from last week and last week was the lowest week in several weeks following another week that was the lowest week in a while.

 

makes sense if you look at the software side, it's not hard to figure out, not like it's the end of the world for Wii.

Yeah, but if Microsoft or Sony had a big game coming out  now, they could take a bit of advantage of this.

 

 

do you mean 1st party or 3rd party? MS has no good 1st party games, and Sony are coming up with some stuff, and there are games coming out for them too, but it still won't hurt Wii no matter how big they are, it's not like a turn over will ever happen at this point.

 

 If the Wii fell down to N64 numbers or Gamecube numbers for a couple of years and PS3 numbers went up to peak PS1 and PS2 numbers, it could get more interesting.



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dahuman on 15 April 2009
BTFeather55 said:
dahuman said:
BTFeather55 said:
dahuman said:
BTFeather55 said:
On Topic the Wii saw a dropoff of over 50% in Others this week from last week and last week was the lowest week in several weeks following another week that was the lowest week in a while.

 

makes sense if you look at the software side, it's not hard to figure out, not like it's the end of the world for Wii.

Yeah, but if Microsoft or Sony had a big game coming out  now, they could take a bit of advantage of this.

 

 

do you mean 1st party or 3rd party? MS has no good 1st party games, and Sony are coming up with some stuff, and there are games coming out for them too, but it still won't hurt Wii no matter how big they are, it's not like a turn over will ever happen at this point.

 

 If the Wii fell down to N64 numbers or Gamecube numbers for a couple of years and PS3 numbers went up to peak PS1 and PS2 numbers, it could get more interesting.

 



mike_intellivision on 15 April 2009

My response is 6966.

As in the number of more Wiis sold than Xbox 360s and PS3s combined last week.

All sales are slowing, it is off peak and the economy is not in what would be called good shape (the US unemployment rate is over 8 percent for example).

So even if sales are slightly down, so are the sales of the other consoles.

Mike from Morgantown



      


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TheSource on 15 April 2009

Here is the big picture guys:

Wii Sales Q1 and H1 by Year, Region and Total

I've included Q2 extrapolations in italics based on the current numbers. Here is the thing though - we know that at least some boosts are possible/likely from the following items/events/games in Q2 from the extrapolated rates:

- Golden Week (Japan)

- Monster Hunter G (Japan)

- Wii Sports Resort (Japan

- Motion Plus (Americas/Others)

- Punch Out (Americas/Others...Brett suggested it could do 5m worldwide in a conversation earlier)

- Desperation for women to get fit (EA Active/Wii Fit May-June boost)

- USA Tax Refunds (I know I get mine in May - guess where its going: games)

- End of school in Europe/Japan/Americas usually results in a minor boost in May/June for all systems

- Movie games - Xmen, Harry Potter, Ghostbusters etc - sometimes these games breakout (Americas)

- At a more macro-level the Pound-Yen exchange rate could recover allowing Nintendo to drop the Wii price in the UK to where it was before

- Tiger Woods could perform real well with Motion Plus

 

Q2 Wk 14-26 Q2 2007 Q2 2008 Q2 2009 (1.33 wks)
Total 3,131,651 5,424,313 3,900,000
America 1,381,721 2,583,037 2,022,475
Japan 883,268 647,923 213,369
Others 866,662 2,193,353 1,694,089

 

 

Q1/ Wk 1-13

 

 

Q1 2007

Q

 

Q1 2008

 

 

                Q1 2009
Total 2,795,981 4,048,358 5,259,600
America 1,094,229 1,553,281 2,632,696
Japan 1,028,813 1,069,039

412,601
Others 672,939 1,426,038

2,214,303

 

 

 

H1/WKs 1-26

 

 

 

H1 2007

 

 

 

H1 2008

 

 

 

2009 (14.33 wks)
Total 5,927,632 9,472,671 5,692,217
America 2,475,950 4,136,318 2,788,271
Japan 1,912,081 1,716,962 429,014
Others 1,539,601 3,619,391

2,474,932


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steven787 on 15 April 2009
TheSource said:

Here is the big picture guys:

Wii Sales Q1 and H1 by Year, Region and Total

Q2 Wk 14-26 Q2 2007 Q2 2008 Q2 2009 (1.33 wks)
Total 3,131,651 5,424,313 3,900,000
America 1,381,721 2,583,037 2,022,475
Japan 883,268 647,923 213,369
Others 866,662 2,193,353 1,694,089
Q1/ Wk 1-13 Q1 2007 Q1 2008 Q1 2009
Total 2,795,981 4,048,358 5,259,600
America 1,094,229 1,553,281 2,632,696
Japan 1,028,813 1,069,039

412,601
Others 672,939 1,426,038 2,214,303

H1/WKs 1-26

 H1 2007 H1 2008 2009 (14.33 wks)
Total 5,927,632 9,472,671 5,692,217
America 2,475,950 4,136,318 2,788,271
Japan 1,912,081 1,716,962 429,014
Others 1,539,601 3,619,391

2,474,932

 

Right-o... the total numbers are still staggering for Q's and H1 for '09.



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