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twesterm on 27 September 2007
cdude1034 said:

The Wii supply after 10 months has finally caught up to supply, therefore, when demand goes back up during Christmas time, the price of a Wii will inflate on c-list, eBay. I think the avg price will be around $350 to $400.



 You might want to rethink that statement a little bit.  Wii's are easier to find, but they still sell out well before the next shipment arrives just about everywhere and they still aren't exactly easy to find.  You can say that statement when you can go into just about any store in any city and find a Wii sitting on the shelves.



 

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Sqrl on 28 September 2007
twesterm said:
cdude1034 said:

The Wii supply after 10 months has finally caught up to supply, therefore, when demand goes back up during Christmas time, the price of a Wii will inflate on c-list, eBay. I think the avg price will be around $350 to $400.



You might want to rethink that statement a little bit. Wii's are easier to find, but they still sell out well before the next shipment arrives just about everywhere and they still aren't exactly easy to find. You can say that statement when you can go into just about any store in any city any day of the week at any time of day and find a Wii sitting on the shelves.


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shams on 28 September 2007

I think you are still looking at a definite sellout over Xmas, but it may not be *that* hard to find one (as there will be a huge supply).

It what happens just after the holidays that will be interesting. All companies will be fighting to sell their quota in 4th qrt, and reach their targets for the year.



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JMan on 28 September 2007

The spikes in the graph I linked to for the PS2 weekly sales/shipments sit at 1.76M units per week at the highest in its popularity on 12/22/2002, surrounded by solid weeks of 1.45M, 1.41M, and 1.22M. That's 5.84M in one month WW, not to mention the 400-700K it sold each week in November, and 270-330K each week in October. For the quarter from October 1st to December 31st, it was about 10M units.

The Wii has proven to be selling faster than the PS2. Trying to match the Wii's expected first spike against the PS2s second and largest spike may not be accurate though. The PS2's first spike in 4th quarter 2001 was 7.6M units. That's still quite a bit more than I've seen projected to be available for the Wii for the same quarter.



Smash_Brother on 28 September 2007

With SSBB and SMG, it'll probably still be sold out for xmas 2K7.

And yes, get your friggin' Wiis NOW before it goes crazy again.



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johnlucas on 28 September 2007
Smash_Brother said:
With SSBB and SMG, it'll probably still be sold out for xmas 2K7.

And yes, get your friggin' Wiis NOW before it goes crazy again.

Amen.

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z64dan on 29 September 2007
johnlucas said:
Smash_Brother said:
With SSBB and SMG, it'll probably still be sold out for xmas 2K7.

And yes, get your friggin' Wiis NOW before it goes crazy again.

Amen.

Not a truer statement has been told.

John Lucas 


Agreed.

In November 2006 I was actually considering NOT camping out for my Wii (all night, it was freezing) because everyone was convinced "Oh there will be plenty during the holidays"

WRONG!

I predict a Tickle-me-elmo type frenzy involving the Wii this December, with all the excellent games and the fact that it is the #1 console right now. (Remember November 2006 Nintendo's console was #3, and the Wii was unproven, yet STILL sold out)