Many of you believe that the current trend the Wii sales are following are a result of it being a fad etc etc. I made this thread to prove you are wrong, totally wrong, once and for all.

Let's take a look at some ps2 sales in the year 2000.

Hardware:

Console	Week	Weekly	Total
	607	44,066 (+37%)	29,253,402
	314	16,026 (+27%)	17,379,172
	98	10,597 (+109%)	4,304,005
	233	4,167 (+78%)	5,219,954
	40	3,637 (-59%)	3,371,547
	106	3,180 (+25%)	1,868,907
	110	1,161 (-2%)	340,639
	92	1,045 (+299%)	1,098,246
Total	83,879

 Say what is this? a conspiracy? PS2 AT 3637? BLASPHEMY!. Yes you read it correct, the console that sold 120+++ million and is still selling above his successor had a weekly sales low of 3,637 units, even lower than what is considered a failure for Nintendo, the N64 (GC wasn't released back then).

What I'm trying to say is that this is just a yearly returning event in Japan which is hard to understand for the Western civilization. We also forget japan just has a population of approx 120 million, which makes it a lot less wise to compare this to the Americas, or even Europe. People in Japan just have these holidays when they buy alot, and these, i call them - Off-holidays, when they buy alot less. We just need to understand and accept this, so that for future reference, people remember why especially the Wii sales are the lowest, which is mostly due to the market that the Wii targets to; Children that went to school, parents waiting for holidays to buy gifts, elderly taking more naps than usual, fanboys arguing on forums etc.

Lastly, i'm gonna pull a John lucas ;)

Neos. 

This thread rocks! + love to Neos.

looking at the %changes all the other machines had just recovered from their low points too.

 exactly, this is a graph from early december, which is actually a strange point for the ps2 to hit its lowest. The other machine did that a few weeks earlier.

Well done neos!

But somehow I dont think will change anything sadly enough :(

The wii is dooooooomed! The fact that it hasnt had a price cut yet, still selling about 2 to 1 over the ps3 and SMG, SSBB, wiifit, MKwii coming soon its still doomed!!! lol :p

Here's some more historical perspective...

Media Create

While I whole heartedly agree with the silliness of the "Wii faltering in Japan" argument, wasn't there a specific reason that the PS2 hit such a low spot during that period? I seem to recall something about Sony not having enough stock. Was it related to the different dates of the system's launch in specific reasons?

Not sure, but if you look at he figures fkusumot posted, you can see the the wii is almost exactly at those levels..it seems scary..really scary.

yeah but those ps2 sales from fkusumot are after it being on sale for 4 to 6 years. I am 50-50 to whether this is just the time of year or if it is the Japanese losing interest at the moment.

Annual sales see a slight increase in average weekly sales the longer the system is in the cycle, not decrease. Also there are just 20 days left untill we are gonna laugh at those comments and totally forget the wii was ever near or under 20k.