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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - 13.17 Million Wii’s Sold World-Wide........VG Chartz need to keep up

NJ5 on 25 October 2007

And before someone says that "the Wii is sold out everywhere so shipped == sold", it's not true. It's certainly not the case in many European countries, and Japan also I suspect (given the recent dip in Japan sales, which I imagine is not due to supply problems).



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Neos on 25 October 2007
TheSource said:

Vgchartz had Wii at 12.05 million sell through (what gamers bought) through Sept 30. Nintendo shipped 13.17 million through Sept 30 (not 13.7).

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft don\'t have scouts at the ~30,000 stores all over the world that tell them how many consoles sold at each individual stores - so they count how many consoles were bought by stores, since that is how they get their money. For simplicity sake if you assume there are 50,000 stores selling videogames and that Nintendo sold 4.0 million units to stores it means each store bought 80 Wiis over 13 weeks, or just over 6 Wiis per week.

Its pretty reasonable to assume that at least in a couple thousand of those stores for a couple weeks only 9/10 Wiis sold of the Wiis bought by Nintendo, which is why 12.05/13.17 ~91% - not 100%.

Got it?


 is 1.12m a reasonable amount of wii's sitting at shelves though?



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TheSource on 25 October 2007

Yeah I think so.  Not only do the big three stockpile for Christmas, but stores do too so they can advertise that they have hot products, at least thats how it was when we got shipments where I worked.



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Kasz216 on 25 October 2007
Neos said:
TheSource said:

Vgchartz had Wii at 12.05 million sell through (what gamers bought) through Sept 30. Nintendo shipped 13.17 million through Sept 30 (not 13.7).

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft don\\\'t have scouts at the ~30,000 stores all over the world that tell them how many consoles sold at each individual stores - so they count how many consoles were bought by stores, since that is how they get their money. For simplicity sake if you assume there are 50,000 stores selling videogames and that Nintendo sold 4.0 million units to stores it means each store bought 80 Wiis over 13 weeks, or just over 6 Wiis per week.

Its pretty reasonable to assume that at least in a couple thousand of those stores for a couple weeks only 9/10 Wiis sold of the Wiis bought by Nintendo, which is why 12.05/13.17 ~91% - not 100%.

Got it?


 is 1.12m a reasonable amount of wii\'s sitting at shelves though?

 

Maybe they've sold more then they've shipped?  Like... stores are purchasing wii's "backordered".



dnnc on 25 October 2007

I live in the BX new york, in my area (1 mile radius) there is a 1 gamestop which i'm sure VG chartz keeps track of, and about 10 electronics retail stores all carrying Wii, 360, PS3......and i'm sure VG chartz doesn't track them, I'm also positive that u don't track -Papo's video store- located in Brooklyn NY that sold me my Wii on day 1 of release



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Ishy on 25 October 2007

well look they're still pretty darn close for an enthusiast site...



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dnnc on 25 October 2007

Out of all the outlets tracked by VG chartz

how many are?

Gamestops?
Gamestation?
Walmart?
Best Buy
Target?
Kmart?

between gamestop and walmart alone that's about 10,000 of the outlets tracked by VG chartz



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celine on 25 October 2007
dnnc said:
I live in the BX new york, in my area (1 mile radius) there is a 1 gamestop which i\'m sure VG chartz keeps track of, and about 10 electronics retail stores all carrying Wii, 360, PS3......and i\'m sure VG chartz doesn\'t track them, I\'m also positive that u don\'t track -Papo\'s video store- located in Brooklyn NY that sold me my Wii on day 1 of release

 And then what ? Do you understand how VGChartz works ?



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Neos on 25 October 2007
dnnc said:
Out of all the outlets tracked by VG chartz
how many are?

Gamestops?
Gamestation?
Walmart?
Best Buy
Target?
Kmart?

between gamestop and walmart alone that\'s about 10,000 of the outlets tracked by VG chartz


 err no not really, its still mostly extrapolation done with a small amount of samples from retailers, really not that much sadly



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gorgepir on 25 October 2007

But why did they give a software to hardware ratio? Did they give this ratio for software shipped vs hardware shipped or software sold vs hardware shipped? Could anyone explain this?