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Forums - Sales - Wii sales jump by 60% for Q4

Avinash_Tyagi on 23 November 2009

^cool, thanks



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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thx1139 on 23 November 2009
ioi said:
Down slightly worldwide, but I think the black friday boost in the US will be bigger this year than last so next week should be up, and then pretty flat through the holidays.

Why?  Wii's were plentiful last year during black friday weekend.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

Avinash_Tyagi on 23 November 2009

^Possibly NSMB, possibly an improvement in consumer sentiment over last year, possibly the price cut



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

bardicverse on 23 November 2009

^^^ Yup, last holiday there wasn't really any big titles for Christmas. SMB games are the top recognized Nintendo IP, so that's definitely a reason to shake up more people who haven't gotten a Wii yet. There are still people out there who want Wii's but just havent had the time or money, but holidays tend to make people make bigger purchases.



vonboysp on 23 November 2009

and people really are buying wiis just for nsmb wii.

just like they bought the ds for it's nsmb.



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Zucas on 23 November 2009

I agree with ioi on the Black Friday thing. The reason being is for Wii the system has been down year over year for the last few months but not necessarily down for the count. Meaning it hasn't lost mainstream brand or top brand for that matter. Thus you could argue that crowd is still going to buy it and it will put more emphasis on the "big holiday weeks".

Actually you could argue this for almost all of gaming aside from the PS3. I think every system (with still the inclusion of the PS3 but not for the same reasons) will see some pretty big Black Friday boosts simply because gaming had been down. It's been proven that gaming isn't losing any steam so bigger boosts in the holiday only make sense. Wii and especially DS will feel this the most. PS3 is the only one that we have to wait and see on because obviously it hasn't been down in those months leading up and thus isn't under the same pressures but I presume it'll have still a big Black Friday jump just like the rest.

But really it doesn't look like the Wii will be too far of from last year's holidays sales. Hell if it really does on the higher end it could even best it.