Monday, September 13, 2010

Wii sales fading. Is this the end everyone was predicting in 2007?

“The Wii realized its lowest month since launch in hardware unit sales,” market researcher NPD announced today, and the console was beat for the third consecutive time by Xbox 360. Total U.S. bragging rights were as follows:

Xbox 360, 356.7kNintendo DS, 342.7kWii, 244.3kPlayStation 3, 226.0kPSP, 79.4k

That said, think Wii sales will ever pick back up? More importantly, will three straight months of second place finishes to an even older console cause Nintendo to accelerate the release of their next console?

Comments (25) READ MORE: Business, Wii 25 Comments X says...
September 9th, 2010 at 6:51 pm

Not even the wii will last longer than the 5-year cycle. I’m kind of getting sick of the shovelware and subpar graphics anyway. It’s time to update yourself nintendo

Toadofsky says...
September 9th, 2010 at 6:54 pm

Maybe there just wasn’t any appealing games this past few months? And Mario Galaxy and Metroid Other M, don’t drive console sales?

Year over year consoles and game sales have declined, and analysts pretend it’s online multiplayer’s fault, which is retarded.

New Super Mario Bros Wii drove sales up, maybe Nintendo needs to research why people love that game.

Mark says...
September 9th, 2010 at 6:55 pm

“That said, think Wii sales will ever pick back up?”

Yes. Once some more big Wii games start coming out the sales of the console will begin picking back up. Over the next few months the Wii’s sales should surge with all the great games coming out this fall. The only reason sales have been down is because Nintendo did a poor job of spacing the major releases for the console across the year. Its been 3 months since we got a major Wii game (SMG2), and its been 3 months since the Wii beat the 360.

I also find it funny that this is the Wii’s worst month since launch and yet it still beat the PS3 this month.

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