Author Topic: Official Sales Thread (Read 3848091 times)

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #975 on:** March 25, 2007, 03:23:56 AM »

Look at your Circuit City ad or circuitcity.com - they're STILL handing out vouchers for Wii an hour before opening.

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #976 on:** March 25, 2007, 06:15:14 PM »

Yeah its on Sunday so I think it's next Sunday they will be handing out the tickets.

Taija-Herbal · « **Reply #977 on:** March 26, 2007, 07:05:03 AM »

http://play.tm/story/9925

Came across this article.... Seems like the sales of the Wii is beating even Nintendo's forecast, looking like it's gonna top 360 this year after all..................................
Over 6 mil in bout 4 months globally .. impressive.. Now where are those third party xclusives...

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #978 on:** March 26, 2007, 07:35:59 AM »

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Originally posted by: Taija-Herbal
http://play.tm/story/9925

Came across this article.... Seems like the sales of the Wii is beating even Nintendo's forecast, looking like it's gonna top 360 this year after all..................................
Over 6 mil in bout 4 months globally .. impressive.. Now where are those third party xclusives...

Just so you know, that site is sourceing VGCharts.com and not Nintendo. VGCharts is far from official and is run independently by two number hording NeoGAF forum users. They are alot more reliable than nextgenwars.com, but it is still unkown how they come up with alot of their newer #'s.

We know that they have access to the Famitsu & Media Create charts (like the ones posted here) and they also have access to the NPD charts (which have recently been put on lockdown), but it is also know that they do a lot of extrapolating of their own since none of thier #'s match any of the official sources listed above. *sometimes their #'s change after offical #'s are released*

In other words, VGCharts is a good source of finding very unofficial #'s for discussion purposes, but don't take anything from that site as definative unless confirmed by an official source.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #979 on:** March 26, 2007, 07:44:28 AM »

Yeah, Nextgenwars and VGCharts disagree pretty heavily in their numbers, with NGW citing the 360 as being over 10 million and the PS3 and Wii showing at roughly a million less while VGC lists the 360 at a million less while placing the PS3 and Wii a million higher.

That's a noteworthy deviation in figures.

ryancoke · « **Reply #980 on:** March 26, 2007, 08:19:41 AM »

Where do these sites even get their info from. I wish that Sony/MS/Nintendo would release their own official umbers more often.

Luigi Dude · « **Reply #981 on:** March 26, 2007, 11:11:15 AM »

What they do is add up the numbers from all the sales data they can find from different sources like NPD and Media Create and then make some estimations. Even though they're not 100% accurate, they do give us the general idea of how the different systems and games are doing.

Which is better then having no info at all.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #982 on:** March 26, 2007, 02:54:05 PM »

I disagree. I think the entire world would be a better place if sales data was never publicly released.

IceCold · « **Reply #983 on:** March 26, 2007, 03:36:28 PM »

I guess Nintendo reached their goal of 4 million by the end of 2006, and 6 million by the end of the fiscal year.

Kairon · « **Reply #984 on:** March 26, 2007, 09:03:08 PM »

I guess so.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #985 on:** March 27, 2007, 04:16:48 AM »

I think Nintendo has done well in reaching their goal, and their goal was actually a pretty high expectation. The fact that they have most likely surpassed it is incredible. I am sure Nintendo will have a press release sometime in early April announcing how they successfully meet their goals and surpassed them.

What is more incredible is to begin to imagine how many units Nintendo will sell if they are able to keep this sales rate up for the rest of year or even improve upon it. The Wii could become like the DS.

Kairon · « **Reply #986 on:** March 27, 2007, 04:27:19 AM »

Now... increase production!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Ceric · « **Reply #987 on:** March 27, 2007, 05:37:03 AM »

I don't think a major increase in production is an answer. A minor one sure. You don't want to risk the dam breaking and flooding the market.

Kairon · « **Reply #988 on:** March 27, 2007, 07:36:36 AM »

Okay... raise production a little!

At their current rate, they're actually doing about 1 mil a month worldwide... would an extra 200,000 monthly worldwide be too little? Maybe an extra 400,000 maybe? Theorycraftgasm!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #989 on:** March 27, 2007, 07:57:30 AM »

I'd steadily increase production until the Wii can actually stay on store shelves.

Remember, the number of Wiis sold is only going to go up as more games are released for it.

Also, Japan bought PS2s every week as though the system had launched that week. I see the Wii being in the same boat. Even if they overproduce, they're still going to sell out of the stock.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #990 on:** March 28, 2007, 07:54:34 AM »

All these upgraded ports with Wii controls shoehorned in can only lead to one thing: INDUSTRY CRASH!

We need to start seeing more highest quality games from Nintendo such that people stop buying the 3rd party crap. Then all the 3rd parties give up and leave and everything will be all right.

Better yet, have a few 3rd parties like Capcom and Konami close up shop or get bought out.

and

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #991 on:** March 28, 2007, 08:54:02 AM »

I'd rather a 3rd party makes a game which is excellent enough that it outsells a few of Nintendo's franchises so they can then say to the rest of the 3rd parties "See? If you make it not suck, they will come."

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #992 on:** March 28, 2007, 09:36:06 AM »

Didn't work for GameCube, nice try

NEEEEXXXTTTT

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #993 on:** March 28, 2007, 09:48:43 AM »

The Gamecube didn't have 10 million consoles sold within its first year of life.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #994 on:** March 28, 2007, 09:59:15 AM »

RE4 was the great white hope.

Taija-Herbal · « **Reply #995 on:** March 28, 2007, 10:09:28 AM »

Kinda unfair gamecube had an image problem, also the lack of good quality games early on meant RE4 came 2 late... by then people seemed to have given up on it anyways... With the wii nintendo seems to be doing everything right, but there are areas that need improving.....

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #996 on:** March 28, 2007, 10:39:52 AM »

Not to mention that the backstabbers at Capcom announced that RE4 would be ported to PS2 before it even came out on GameCube!

Ian Sane · « **Reply #997 on:** March 28, 2007, 10:57:10 AM »

It's a shame that the Cube titles that had the best potential for selling systems came out so late in the console's life. RE4 and Twilight Princess both would have been huge had they been released earlier on when the Cube wasn't already stamped as a failure with no future. In the end neither game even ended up being an exclusive and the effect on Cube sales was non-existent.

The third parties don't need to learn that good games sell better than bad ones. They don't care anyway since if another console allows them to sell crappy games as well as good games they'll just go there. Who wants to earn their money when there's an option that provides the same results (or better) with laziness? If someone was going to pay you the same amount of money to run a marathon or sleep which would you pick?

Third parties need to know that games PERIOD will sell on the Wii be they good or bad. If the good ones sell better then that can hopefully encourage better games but third parties really just want all of their titles to sell well regardless of whether they deserve to or not. I want a situation where one makes decent money on crappy games but makes exceptional money on great games. So no one bails because they have to *gasp* make an effort while at the same time no one purposely slacks off because quality makes no difference.

AwesomeMan · « **Reply #998 on:** March 28, 2007, 11:50:07 AM »

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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix
Not to mention that the backstabbers at Capcom announced that RE4 would be ported to PS2 before it even came out on GameCube!

Also RE4 wasn't a great game, it was pretty good, but pretty good doesn't sell systems.

IceCold · « **Reply #999 on:** March 28, 2007, 12:09:44 PM »

1000th post!

Here's to many thousands more..

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Will Nintendo pull off another 30 for 30 in Japan sales this year and, if so, how many times?

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