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Forums - Sales Discussion - Which console's big holiday titles will sell the most?

koffieboon on 28 November 2009
09tarheel said:

Nice posts Koffieboon and Joecool. Both well thought out. I agree that the next 1-2 weeks should be a good indicator of how this will turn out. The 360's title's have all been released, so we just need to see how well they will hold up the next few weeks. The Wii as Koffie said still has NSMB Wii in Japan which should be a big boost. Wii Fit + sales are continuing to go up, so if those sales really take off it would really help the Wii. Also while the bottom two spots are the weakest for the Wii, there were some positive signs for it this week. The Disney: Sing It game, seems to be really taking off. Resident Evil and Tony Hawk Ride both opened up fairly well on Wii, and games like Band Hero and Rabbids Go Home have had consistent sales the last few weeks. So with all those the 4-5 spots on the Wii might become respectable at some point, which would have to happen for the Wii to have a chance to be first.

I guess you can also turn it around and see the last 2 spots for Wii still having a big potential to grow. Although we don't know which titles will end up on those spots at the moment they can still add quite a bit of sales for Wii if they both end up around 750k. This might actually be a bigger increase from here on out than the 2 football games and  Uncharted 2 will see.



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Majin-Tenshinhan on 04 December 2009

This thread should start to get really interesting soon :)



GianCarmen on 04 December 2009

I cant wait to see the software numbers. Where are they.



09tarheel on 06 December 2009

Glad to see that a couple people were interested in seeing the updates with this week's numbers, and now the chart in the original post is updated.
The weekly gains were Wii>360>PS3. But 360 still has a large overall lead, and Wii still trails both by several million overall.



koffieboon on 07 December 2009

Wii only decreased the gap with Xbox 360 by a few 100k, so it is looking less likely for it to overcome the difference. It probably needs to close the gap to less than 3 million by next update to have any chance left. Overtaking PS3 seems a lot more likely though, with a 700k difference this week it is closing it pretty quickly.



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Majin-Tenshinhan on 07 December 2009

Not having pre-October titles included is really hurting the Wii, but it's nice to see it's putting up a bit of a fight anyway.



koffieboon on 07 December 2009
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
Not having pre-October titles included is really hurting the Wii, but it's nice to see it's putting up a bit of a fight anyway.

I think it also shows the missed opportunity for third party publishers. Wii would almost certainly win if its number 4 and 5 spots
performed better. And I'm sure there is room on the platform to have more than 3 new games doing well in the holiday season, but obviously they need to release some compelling software to get those sales.



Majin-Tenshinhan on 07 December 2009
koffieboon said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
Not having pre-October titles included is really hurting the Wii, but it's nice to see it's putting up a bit of a fight anyway.

I think it also shows the missed opportunity for third party publishers. Wii would almost certainly win if its number 4 and 5 spots
performed better. And I'm sure there is room on the platform to have more than 3 new games doing well in the holiday season, but obviously they need to release some compelling software to get those sales.

To be honest, it feels like almost all of the Wiis lifetime is a gigantic missed opportunity by third parties. It's pretty sad.



Seece on 07 December 2009

HA! Looks like 360 has a shot at winning ...



 

S3V3R3D on 07 December 2009

Modern Warfare 2 will rip it!