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Forums - Sales - Nintendo SELLS 550K Wii & 1 Million DS during BF Week!!!!

Chris_Noctis on 01 December 2009

So DS is going to do 1.5 million this week i guess.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 01 December 2009

So no new handheld from Nintendo until 2012-2013?



 

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)

jarrod on 01 December 2009
ioi said:
jarrod said:
Khuutra said:
Wow.

So, in theory, Nintendo could actually keep track of their used game sales, too?

That stuff is bananas.

Yep.  SiRAS tracks by serial number for the life of a platform in retail.  They could actually tell you how many times a specific console's been resold even.

Shame NOA doesn't ever release these internal figures (they'd be way more accurate than NPD even) but then there'd probably conflicts of interest raised and they'd probably prefer not to publicly discredit NPD.

I imagine the whole thing is a minefield in terms of legalities and who has rights to which data.

On Sony, I don't believe they have any kind of "internal tracking" as such. As with MS they often claim sales estimates based on "feedback from key retailers" so in a way it's not all that different to what we do on VGC although obviously on a far greater scale - they get feedback from certain retailers and extrapolate to estimate for the whole market.

Yeah, there's no way in hell you'll ever see SCEA allow a Nintendo subsidiary release figures for their stuff.  Even 3rd party Wii/DS games would be tough... Nintendo could probably release their own game/console/accessory figures though, if they wanted.  



jarrod on 01 December 2009

lol, I missed it!  I'm sure Satan personally informs Mr. Gates exactly how many 360s are out there each month.



NJ5 on 01 December 2009
Khuutra said:
Wow.

So, in theory, Nintendo could actually keep track of their used game sales, too?

That stuff is bananas.

Do individual games have serial numbers?

 



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Khuutra on 01 December 2009
NJ5 said:
Khuutra said:
Wow.

So, in theory, Nintendo could actually keep track of their used game sales, too?

That stuff is bananas.

Do individual games have serial numbers?

I misspoke there

I meant consoles



Ail on 01 December 2009

Those DS and Wii numbers makes you wonder if the DS isn't starting to cannibalize Wii sales in the West too...
Not a terrible thing if you are Nintendo though....



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Ail on 01 December 2009
Khuutra said:
NJ5 said:
Khuutra said:
Wow.

So, in theory, Nintendo could actually keep track of their used game sales, too?

That stuff is bananas.

Do individual games have serial numbers?

I misspoke there

I meant consoles

consoles do



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Avinash_Tyagi on 01 December 2009
Ail said:
Those DS and Wii numbers makes you wonder if the DS isn't starting to cannibalize Wii sales in the West too...
Not a terrible thing if you are Nintendo though....

If that were true, then it would mean the future of gaming is handhelds, not consoles, and that the doom meter returns to Sony and MS



 

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)

Ail on 01 December 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Ail said:
Those DS and Wii numbers makes you wonder if the DS isn't starting to cannibalize Wii sales in the West too...
Not a terrible thing if you are Nintendo though....

If that were true, then it would mean the future of gaming is handhelds, not consoles, and that the doom meter returns to Sony and MS

But PSP isn't cannibalizing HD console sales the way it is in Japan.... ( and HD console sales is actually up YoY on Black Friday).



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !