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Nintendo still consumer favourite
By Stevie Smith Apr 20, 2007, 16:42 GMT
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im amazed at those figures!
i mean really, the DS outsold all of them!
i think that Nintendo will however stay in the lead, because i think it has a good start, a nice console, and a friendly price tag
peace,
jeff
Wii sales fell 27% in a month, if ps3 sales did the titles would include words like 'plummet', 'plunge', etc. While the title is factually true, the article should include a proper comparison in addition to the personal opinion qualitative stuff. I'd be nice to see some reporting on what the 27% drop was due to, is it a trend, a blip, etc
Nintendo power!!! Cant beat the games they make everyone knows Mario and Zelda or Kerby you name it people know it. Xbox is nice to mod... Playstation has a ton of games... but over all the quality is with Nintendo.
LF-4
If the numbers proof anything it's that casual gamers favor price over quality. Lower prices equal more sales. What's so surprising?
i just flat out love nintendo. mario is the cutest little guy. none better in my opinion. ill be marios princess anyday.....
Well that 27% drop might be due to the fact that Nintendo can't keep up with the demand. Almost everyone I know would buy a Wii if we could find one for sale.
The Xbox 360 has sold twice as many units as the Wii, proving that once again, Microsoft's consoles are still the consumers favorite.
I Did not know that the DS outsold the PSP!!!???? Also the WII is very cheep so you can expect it to sell well. I thought that the X-box and PS3 would at least stand a chance
If anything I think Wii sales have fallen a bit as the holidays are over and there aren't a whole ton of new games coming until the summer months. Demand is still mind bogglingly high though. Once those new Wii games do hit the shelves, especially big titles like Smash Bros., Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 and others (including some rather impressive third party titles like No More Heroes), even more of the hardcore crowd will be going after the Wii. Combine that with some rather intersting upcomming niche titles like Wii Music and the casual crowd who may be riding the fence about getting a Wii (or just can't find one yet) will probably buy into it.
Finally, in the fall there's titles like Guitar Hero 3 and the HIGHLY anticipated NiGHTS sequel by Sega, along with some uber violent titles like Manhunt 2, plus all those new virtual console games. The Wii will end up having something for everyone and at its price tag will be hard to resist I'd wager.
WiiKo,
Demand can decrease availablity to the individual (due to more buyers), but it CANNOT decrease total sales or supply. Only decreased manufacturing, or diverting supply to another market could lower TOTAL sales or supply to the NA market.
Not only have Nintendo been supposedly INCREASING supply, just producing the SAME number should have left almost 100,000 sitting on shelves (which obviously would have been bought and the monthly numbers identical). On top of that March had MORE days than February, so if you did a daily anaylsis, sales of Wiis would be down probably over 30% on a per day basis in March vs Feb.
This isnt a fanboy debate, I am querying the authors of the articles to do a more indepth analysis of what is actually going on here and why. This should be a headline story, but is being ignored because the absolute value of wii sales is still the highest, though as I said, month over month sales, it fell significantly.
Jake is an idiot. The Xbox360 has been on the market since fall of 2005. The wii just got on the market in late 2006. Now, with a year's lead to market, and only 6 months into the Wii's lifespan, you think Xbox proves something by having 3 times as many consoles sold, when it was the only nextgen console available for a year. No, I think when the wii is as old as the xbox 360 is now, it will have 2-3 times the amount of units sold that the 360 currently has. Jake is an idiot.
Its good to see nintendo back on top like in the early 90's. I was always pro nintendo and even though i find less and less time to enjoy a good video game, all i have to say is this. Paper mario!!!! Were their dude!
Audi
Who in their right mind would pay $600.00 for a video game system that dosn't even come with a video game? They also did not produce enough to begin with and then you had a bunch of a$% h$%#@ going out and shooting each other over it. I set out one night and got a Wii for half the price and nobody got shot over it
the Wii looks like a repeat of the sega dreamcast and nintendo cube or whatever the names were. They were hot items for a brief period and then died out. Wii is just a fad.
I'd love to buy an Xbox, but look at the reliability, my co-worker has had to send back two Xboxes. In the past I've owned a SP2 which had the laser disc reading error. I've never had a problem with my NES. I'm happy for Nintendo.
@Obe: Neither of them came remotely close to selling 6 million consoles worldwide by their fourth month on the market. Dreamcast also came out a year before its competetors and was killed off within the first year of the PS2 being on the market. All three consoles are on the market now and the Wii sales are exponentially higher than its competetors.
Furthermore, Dreamcast/GCN had little to no support from anyone other than their respective manufacturers. GCN had enough to stay afloat for a good five years while Dreamcast didn't even stay afloat one year. Saying Wii is a fad in the face of major publishers like EA, Rockstar, Square Enix, Konami and Ubisoft trying to jump all over it is ignorance in its purist form. The Wii is going to have a spectacular year as far as upcoming software titles are concerned including major releases that eclipse anything PlayStation 3 has to offer. Since it's also able to capitalize on a market that neither PS3 or Xbox 360 can, it'll only sell more.
The Wii isn't a fad - it's the NES of this century, reaching out to more people than even the first Nintendo did, and the DS is even outdoing GameBoy in all its glory. People said the same ignorant hogwash about the DS when it came out, and how PSP would eventually kill it. Look at it now.
I've tried the Wii and don't really like the controller. I'll stick with the gamepad, thanks.
Maybe the writer should do a little fact checking beforehand. Sony is phasing out the 20gig PS3.
Nintendo is doing the right thing getting people out of the couch while PS3 and Xbox want to keep them there. Let´s see how they handle the soccer thing.
@Whatever
Maybe you should take the time to read the whole article, the writer clearly states that Sony has abandoned the 20GB PS3, but then mentions it can still be bought in stores, which is true.
Gamecube failed and WII is gonna fail too. Nintendo is good at portable consoles but in the end Sony and Microsoft are the only ral competitors. Nintendo fails.
microsoft got owned!
The WII is hot. The only reason I could see for a drop in sales is MFG issues or distribution channels. I think some of the retailers are stockpiling to release larger batches at a specific date instead of trickling out the supply in quantities of 2-3.
Today I was able to pick up three wii's at Toys R US. I lucked out last night and was told by a clerk that they had 30 in stock for sale today. Had to stand in line for half an hour, but now I have a second WII and two for family.
There is very little stock out there. We have been hitting the stores for two weeks and very few report any coming in. This is in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
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