thats what i think it probably is as well because as everybody knows a few hundred thousand either way can jump prices all over the place and this is just a small decrease. my main issue is that i think its undervalued atm anyway and should be on the increase not decreasing.
so the two versions combined have already sold over 5million in the first three months and should still have another 4 months of good sales left until the olympics. current valuation puts the total of the two at 7.3million, meaning in the next four months its not going to sell 50% of what it did in three. yet this is still dropping in price? maybe its down to the breakdown on each system but even then i cant see the reasoning as the DS has a much higher install base. i know the wii will outsell the DS version as party games tend to do worse on the DS when compared to the Wii but i just cant see a valid reason for the price to be dropping.
Why is this dropping? This game has cleared 1million on the wii. DS has a far bigger install base. Its the olympic games ! it has to sell well. Im sure they are going to advertise huge at the olympics and taking a look at how DS mario games are selling eg mario party has sold about 2 million allready. This should be near 2.5million at least.
In each case the game that gets the best review score sells the most. There probably aren't enough Wii-DS multi platform games to form a solid conclusion from, but I think if Nintendo decides to focus more on the development of one game, the sales of the other game will suffer.
It seems to vary greatly between the games, here are a couple examples:
Shrek the Third (DS) 102,650 sales (US) vs Shrek the Third (Wii) 72,976 sales (US)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (DS) 64,212 sales (US) vs Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Wii) 83,408 sales (US)
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (DS) 373,962 sales (US) vs Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (GC) 614,402 sales (US)
Those are vgchartz numbers, but hopefully they are at least representative of ratios each game on each system sold with respect to the same game on the other system. From this no clear answer emerges, I will try to find more sources and data to see if a trend emerges between sales numbers between the same game on two different systems (namely the Wii and DS).
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