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Nikkei News - Wii sells out on 1st day, nearly 400,000 sold
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Kurosaki Ichigo
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Wii Sports and Wii Play are sold out at amazon....lol, Zelda isn't.
Chittagong
Gold Member
cank stoochie said:
I'm sure you know this but the as a future Wii owner, it matters a lot to me that the console is successful. More consoles sold = more 3rd parties making games = happier me.
Actually, I was looking to buy some shares in Nintendo when the control scheme was announced, but couldn't find out where to do it. Considering something I saw yesterday showed that the prices have pretty much doubled since this time last year, I'm quite annoyed.
Amazing, The Wii has sold 400,000 in Japan at launch and 600,000 in the U.S at launch (restocks not included). That's 1/6th of the Xbox 360 worldwide LTD in only 2 weeks, Nintendo may just see that same sort of success as they had with the DS Lite.
Now... lets see how much Nintendo sells on the European Launch day in 5 days time
Now... lets see how much Nintendo sells on the European Launch day in 5 days time
Well Nintendo's sold ~4mil GameCubes in japan, it now sells under 1k/week (so we can say it sells none), let's say that it the Wii sells 1mil in december alone (due to shortage, cause that's fairly low when it sells 400k first day) then ~100k/week average (DS style) makes it 30 weeks to reach 4mil, or July 2007 to pass Gamecube sales in Japanmoku said:
Xavien said:Amazing, The Wii has sold 400,000 in Japan at launch and 600,000 in the U.S at launch (restocks not included). That's 1/6th of the Xbox 360 worldwide LTD in only 2 weeks, Nintendo may just see that same sort of success as they had with the DS Lite.
Now... lets see how much Nintendo sells on the European Launch day in 5 days time
great success coming for Europe...
I wonder. The Wii will surely sellout everywhere around the globe unlike the DS at its beginning. The sales charts will tell us if they are about to produce enough, a problem that they still have with the DS Lite (they are stocking up for the holidays?)D.Lo said:
tanasten
glad to heard people isn't stupid anymore
the problem is that they're serving systems to the 3 markets from the start. For sure, it's noot a good idea for them the worldwide release thing. They're losing a lot of potential buyers for the lack of stock.
In other case, I think that if 2 millions would have been released on the States, those would have been selled yet, and if 1'5 would have been released in Japan, those would have been sold. 1 millon for europe and would be sold too.
It's a shame that they're losing that much anticipation. I hope they can keep up with this momentun meanwhile resuplying units. At how much rate is the system being produced¿
In other case, I think that if 2 millions would have been released on the States, those would have been selled yet, and if 1'5 would have been released in Japan, those would have been sold. 1 millon for europe and would be sold too.
It's a shame that they're losing that much anticipation. I hope they can keep up with this momentun meanwhile resuplying units. At how much rate is the system being produced¿
D.Lo
Member
True, but then the DS dropped off for a while until Nintendogs. And it wasn't until the next Christmas that the DS was hamstrung by shortages. Wii already has a 'Nintendogs' called Wii Sports, so if they can produce them fast enough I think it will get there much quicker then the DS.Fuzzy said:
Frankfurter
Member
Fuzzy said:
I think you use fuzzy math
DS sold ~1.5m in five weeks of 2004 and another ~4.15m in 2005, so that is already ~5.65m after 13 months.cbrotherson
Member
tanasten said:
Shhhhh, don't say that
Europe hasn't seen a main Nintendo console launch within the same calendar year as NTSC territories since... well, ever - I think Nintendo's only accidentally releasing it here and haven't actually realised yet.Either that, or it knows we're going to be hit be a giant meteor or something, removing us from the planet and giving other territories more units by default. We're used to false hope...
Close to real numbers?? They are the worst estimates out there, yeah even worst than ioi's extimates. According to those numbers X360 sales are about 8m units which is far from the real numbers. X360 sales in NA (which is by far the biggest market for it) is less than 4m units.f_elz said:
Of course xbots like to believe those numbers. :lol
Real time sales estimates FTMFL.
D.Lo
Member
It's more then that - Europe has really never seen a console launch this early. The pitiful numbers of 360s hardly counted as a launch (much like the Japanese PS3 'launch' - they're not mass market numbers people!), and the only other one within a calender year was the PS2, and that was only because it launched early in the year in Japan.cbrotherson said:Shhhhh, don't say that
I still can't find a Wii here in the U.S. without lining up for several hours outside a retail store.
I came up with a dry run again this morning.
The Wii was in both the Target and Circuit City ads today.
Target opens at 8am so I got there at 7am and there were 50 people in line already, so I didn't bother staying because I know they didn't get that many systems in.
I went across the street for Circuit City's 10am opening and got there around 7:45 and there were 60 people in line already.
I came up with a dry run again this morning.
The Wii was in both the Target and Circuit City ads today.
Target opens at 8am so I got there at 7am and there were 50 people in line already, so I didn't bother staying because I know they didn't get that many systems in.
I went across the street for Circuit City's 10am opening and got there around 7:45 and there were 60 people in line already.
tanasten
glad to heard people isn't stupid anymore
cbrotherson said:Shhhhh, don't say that
Either that, or it knows we're going to be hit be a giant meteor or something, removing us from the planet and giving other territories more units by default. We're used to false hope...
QFMFT
In Spain firts release of the system is nearly sold out. In Barcelona and neigbourhood it's pretty hard to find an store that accepts your reservation because they have enought for the release days and can't fulfill the demand.
I hope that resuplying is quick enought (I have not a guaranteed Wii)