[quote]sgstair said: Stromprophet said: WII SALES ARE NOT LIMITED BY SUPPLY! HELLO! All you guys are being ridiculous. In NA January to February sales went from 450k to 350k...did Nintendo just produce 100k less consoles? Japan, January 450k for the month, February 303k, 150k less. I'm sorry, eithwer Nintendo is making less and purposely supply constraining the system or you all are being insane. It's obvious they are selling less than they were (which you would expect off holiday). So increasing the supply will not garner new sales because it's not in supply shortage. You can get a Wii online. I have seen them sitting on shelves for the last month. Sure, they are selling out, but point being it wasn't impossible to find one 2 months ago if you knew what you were doing. No, sales were down due to supply not demand and that can clearly be seen in Japan's March sales. Lets look at Wii sales over the last 4 weeks where no significant games were released. Those sales are very unpredictable, random, and obviously supply constrained. Wii 03/04/07 62,000 1,807,000 Wii 03/11/07 49,000 1,856,000 Wii 03/18/07 69,750 1,925,750 Wii 03/25/07 77,250 2,003,000 Now lets look at PS3 sales after the launch hype cooled down and it settled at around 20,000. That little sales spike to 24,000 was when VF5 was released. The spike to 46,000 was because of Gundam Musou. Notice how the sales are very predictable and always seem to settle around 21-20,000 units when there are no new significant games. 12 PS3 01/28/07 21,000 623,250 13 PS3 02/04/07 20,250 643,500 14 PS3 02/11/07 24,000 667,500 15 PS3 02/18/07 21,250 688,750 16 PS3 02/25/07 21,000 709,750 17 PS3 03/04/07 46,750 756,500 18 PS3 03/11/07 30,500 787,000 19 PS3 03/18/07 22,250 809,250 20 PS3 03/25/07 21,750 831,000 I think over the next few weeks we're gonna see the supply restraints released though as Paper Mario and Big Brain academy around coming out.

To keep things (sort of) on track. Sega appears to be happy with developing games for the PS3 also...SEGA They appear also to like multiformats too.

Spore is game of the year. I mean, nothing else is in the running. Glad to see several people mention that Jan was a 5-week month, and Feb a 4-week month. I'd expect to see March Wii sales pretty much match Feb sales. I'd like to mention that PS2 never, even now, had a price advantage over GC... Someone mentioned that PS2 established a price advantage quickly... Next... PS2 2,372,750 360 2,080,750 DS 1,974,250 Wii 1,590,250 ^^I think that counts Wii Sports. Regardless, for a just-launched system, its not bad. Not great, considering Wii Play's 400K. But hey, if most of the 380K buying the system bought it for Wii Sports and Wii Play, the other systems are just straight up screwed.

I think the only figure I would repeat is the 55 million HD Sets was reported by the CEO of a company making HD sets as the market for 2007. This was on CNBC which I watch regularly for market news. Remember these 55 million sets go in mnay more rooms nowadays than just the living room, and include small sets and large sets. So obviously "half" (which it's not more than half, 115 million US households) would not all have to be buying sets. Regardless, last year HD sets outsold SD sets so that's where the trend is headed in the US.