JJ Hendricks over at Vintage Computer & Gaming has truly outdone himself. Taking whining over the price of games on the Wii's Virtual Console as his cue, he's looked at the average used-copy price of every single game available on the service, and compared them to the price Nintendo are charging on the VC. His findings? Intriguing.
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True story : At CES, everyone was using the Wii system to draw people into their booths. Showing off a huge projector? Hook up a Wii, put Wii Sports on the screen, and start handing out controllers. Same thing with televisions, chairs, speakers, home theater decorations... you name it. If the product was in some way able to have a Wii hooked up to it, that's the way vendors tried to hook observers.
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More than $18 billion has been spent online during the season-to-date, marking an 18-percent gain versus the corresponding days last year. Thursday, December 6 recorded $803 million in online sales, up 28 percent versus year ago, making it the heaviest online spending day in history. Products Searches Nintendo Wii 30,455 Xbox 360 10,985 Playstation 3 7,566
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Parents are paying up to 12 times the normal price for Christmas must-have, the Nintendo Wii. The £179.99 consoles, sold out in most high street shops, are fetching four-figure sums online. And a net auction seller sold one at the weekend for £2,259.99.
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To recap, the recommended retail price for a Nintendo Wii in the United States is $249... A look on eBay shows prices for the console already reaching $350-$450, and that's just for a vanilla console with one controller, Wii Sports and no Zack & Wiki."
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Total wii sales have pulled even with the 360 at roughly 10.2 million units sold.
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Wii sales now stand at70.93 million units The company sold 20.53 million Wii consoles over the period -- a drop-off of 21 percent compared to last fiscal year. And even despite the roll-out of the DSi XL, sales of Nintendo's portable platform also fell, a decline of 12 percent to 27.11 million units sold. Nintendo says a European shortfall is largely responsible for the decline.
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“We estimate sell-through of 725k Wii, 300k Xbox 360 and 200k PS3 consoles (a 26% year-over-year unit increase in consoles),” said the analysts.“Our console sell-through forecasts reflect our belief that supplies for Wii hardware were up year-over-year. Double-digit hardware unit growth implies solid software sales growth for the succeeding year, giving us confidence in our 12% growth estimate for 2009 U.S. software sales.”
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“I haven’t done the work for NPD yet, but my guess is that 360 sales were flat or up a little, PS3 sales down a little, and Wii sales up more than 100%,” said Pachter. “That would end up around 1.2 - 1.3 million 360s, around 700,000 PS3s and around 3 million (or more) Wiis.” Pachter went on to say that his official estimates would be released early next week.
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When Nintendo announced MotionPlus for the Wii, who knew about it? Nintendo did. And that's it. They didn't tell a soul. Not even their beloved third-party publishing and development partners, who were understandably a little upset. Lucasarts are among those upset, and...oh, did I say upset? I meant to say totally pissed.
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