Author Topic: Official Sales Thread (Read 3926718 times)

IceCold · « **Reply #300 on:** January 09, 2007, 07:19:11 PM »

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5. New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo) 69,168 [3,840,296]

What? It should be well over 4 million..

Mario · « **Reply #301 on:** January 09, 2007, 08:02:20 PM »

Flop

couchmonkey · « **Reply #302 on:** January 10, 2007, 02:17:20 AM »

"Common Sense Training" reminds me of that old series of Dilbert strips where Dogbert starts a common sense school.

WiiSports/Play just keep going and going. Dare I say, "new Brain Training"?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #303 on:** January 10, 2007, 05:38:10 AM »

I updated the harware #'s....

OMG what a dissappointment. I know there is a shortage, but Did Nintendo aslo slowdown production too? What a happened? PS3 almost sold as much as the Wii, its a disaster.
Mario please tell the people what they fear to hear.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #304 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:34:43 AM »

I'm sure...I mean, I HOPE...that Nintendo realizes that every Wii they can make right now is basically a guaranteed sale.

And it might even be possible that the US wants the Wii more than Japan does, since the US seems to have a fever and the only cure is more Wii.

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #305 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:39:40 AM »

Again, I am still hoping that by April Nintendo has wised up and starts to ramp up Wii production.

If by then the Wii is STILL a pain in the ass to find, something is up at Nintendo.

Kairon · « **Reply #306 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:42:51 AM »

DOOM! GLOOM! AND CANDYCANES!

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

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #307 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:52:36 AM »

When Ninty raised its fiscal projections for software and overall profit, they did NOT raise their hardware projection...Why? Because they can't possibly make more than they are making right now...

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #308 on:** January 10, 2007, 08:27:29 AM »

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
When Ninty raised its fiscal projections for software and overall profit, they did NOT raise their hardware projection...Why? Because they can't possibly make more than they are making right now...

You think they'd be opening new factories round the clock...

God only knows the same thing happened to the DSL at its launch not too long ago and just look at how it turned out: it's STILL sold out most places, especially over the holiday season.

The Wii promises to be even bigger, at least here in the states. I think it's safe to say that opening more factories isn't a "risky" business decision by any stretch.

Luigi Dude · « **Reply #309 on:** January 10, 2007, 08:37:21 AM »

ok, you people do realise Nintendo launched the Wii WORLDWIDE, as in the entire world dont you? That's why Wii's are hard to find, because it's kind of hard to supply each region with enough unit's when there's a huge demand in every single one.

Now Nintendo could have pulled a Sony and only released in Japan and North America to help create a steady supply for those regions while screwing over Europe, but they didn't. And because of that Nintendo has gotten the jump on Sony in that region and has a good chance of taking the Europe market if Sony takes too long to release over there.

Plus on the Japanese side the PS3 is supposed to be widely in stock now while the Wii is still in short supply. So if the Wii with a shortage is able to outsell a widely available PS3, that only speaks volumes for just how popular the Wii is and how Nintendo easily owns that market.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #310 on:** January 10, 2007, 08:42:33 AM »

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Originally posted by: Luigi Dude Plus on the Japanese side the PS3 is supposed to be widely in stock now while the Wii is still in short supply. So if the Wii with a shortage is able to outsell a widely available PS3, that only speaks volumes for just how popular the Wii is and how Nintendo easily owns that market.

Same is true in the US.

I just hope that they see what an explosion of popularity the Wii has and act accordingly to meet the demand.

Louieturkey · « **Reply #311 on:** January 10, 2007, 09:03:13 AM »

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
Same is true in the US.

I just hope that they see what an explosion of popularity the Wii has and act accordingly to meet the demand.

Will never happen. Wii is doomed!!!

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #312 on:** January 10, 2007, 09:15:46 AM »

I don't say it because I think Nintendo is doomed but because I'd rather Wii hunting was easier or unnecessary.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #313 on:** January 10, 2007, 09:56:47 AM »

I read somewhere else that they raised their Wii hardware forecasts from 17 to 21 million.

JonLeung · « **Reply #314 on:** January 10, 2007, 10:03:15 AM »

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Originally posted by: Brandogg
I read somewhere else that they raised their Wii hardware forecasts from 17 to 21 million.

What forecast is that? Is that for this year, or what? 'Cause isn't that catching up to total GameCube sales? o_0

Rancid Planet · « **Reply #315 on:** January 10, 2007, 11:42:56 AM »

I'm not saying that this is what's happening but could you really blame Nintendo, after all that's gone wrong with their last two home consoles, for holding back on Wii production because they're still waiting for the other shoe to drop?

I can just imagine a board of directors meeting at NCL or NOA. Everyone sitting around going "I just KNOW it. Tommorrow morning on the front cover of every gaming magazine on the planet it's gonna have a big headline that says "The Nintendo Wii: For Retarded Homo Babies?" and then that's it, we're done, over, FINISHED!"

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #316 on:** January 10, 2007, 12:43:07 PM »

Forecast for sales throughout 2007 (including 2006 I assume).

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #317 on:** January 10, 2007, 02:35:16 PM »

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Originally posted by: JonLeung What forecast is that? Is that for this year, or what? 'Cause isn't that catching up to total GameCube sales? o_0

20.85 million worldwide, according to VG Charts.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #318 on:** January 10, 2007, 02:45:48 PM »

I read the other info wrong, they forecast 21 million in SOFTWARE, for the end of the fiscal year.

Kairon · « **Reply #319 on:** January 10, 2007, 11:37:20 PM »

Let's just see how much they can manufacture... I mean... They make 2.5 mil DS Lites a month right? Their original estimate of 6 mill by march '07 only assumes they ship 2 million wiis in 3 months, aka ~666k worldwide a month, aka ~222 a month per territory, aka XBox 360 monthly sales numbers in the US during non-holiday 2005.... well, put that way, 220k a month isn't exactly a small number even though it isn't a great one.

And will they need to hoard up consoles for the rumored DQ:S bundle?

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

Arbok · « **Reply #320 on:** January 11, 2007, 05:25:27 AM »

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
You think they'd be opening new factories round the clock...

Even if they are, I somehow doubt they could get them up and running in a couple month's times to the point where they could mass produce Wiis.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #321 on:** January 11, 2007, 05:28:15 AM »

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Originally posted by: Arbok Even if they are, I somehow doubt they could get them up and running in a couple month's times to the point where they could mass produce Wiis.

True, but anything less than taking that appropriate action would be failure.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #322 on:** January 11, 2007, 06:23:15 AM »

Realistically, I expected them to cut off GameCube production and convert those same manufacturing facilities to producing Wii consoles.

Even converting from GBA production would help, but that thing still prints money.

willie1234 · « **Reply #323 on:** January 11, 2007, 12:46:12 PM »

"According to NPD, the Xbox 360 came out on top across the three next-gen consoles, selling 1.1 million units compared to the Wii's 604,200 and the PS3's 490, 700."
-kotaku

while it's nice to see nintendo doing better than the ps3, 600 in dec, for a total of 1.1 mill in the us seems low to me. I was calculating that to make 4 mil worldwide they would have had to do 2 mil in the us. It's too bad they botched the manufacturing so much, they could have done much better. Especially given that this is not high end hardware, ie no blue ray etc.

son of lucas · « **Reply #324 on:** January 11, 2007, 01:06:11 PM »

If those numbers are correct, everyone had a crappy Christmas.

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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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