While Wii Fit's been a media darling, and has captured Nintendo a ton of good press with morning television crowd, it's sold "only" 3.42 million units worldwide in Quarter 1 of Fiscal Year 2009 [Q1FY09 sales # (Apr - June 08)]. That's a little over half of what Mario Kart Wii's managed, with the plastic-wheel-packing GameCube update managing to sell 6.42 million units worldwide.
"Fans of the Wii Wheel, take note: Nintendo has opened up yet another Mario Kart Wii tournament catering exclusively to you and your primary control scheme of choice. As you can see above, the tournament takes place on the GBA Battle Course 3 track, but you better hurry because this tournament ends on the 24th of this month." - Follow the link to more information.
@deftangel, There are lots of of evidence that "you can go into a shop and buy a Wii" in April. Lots of people said that shipment during MK Wii launch period is the biggest ever, even compared to SSBB launch. Only Christmas 07 shipment is bigger than MK Wii period shipment.
Remember the Toy's R Us article ? Remember the new 24 (or 25) million Wii sales prediction by Nintendo for FY 08 (Apr 08 - Mar 09) ? Which implied higher production capacity, which may start on summer, but may also start April 1, 2008.
@Just_Ben, It is just that I am the play-safe type of investor. Any sign of possibility of losing money can easily scare me away :) (like I did with MK Wii). If the actual # is 1 Million, you stood to gain 20% of 12 Million = 2.4 Million. Very nice profit :).
SMG did 500k first week, yes I used that sentence and all others about MK Wii (Selling good but not crazy, is the tenor of all "retail posters"). That all is just poor evidence for anything. It is about what? 3 or 4 shops? Nothing I would bet my life on, sure. But since you posted it I posted what it implies to me, not that I would go 100% on that impressions ;)
So hang on, you really believe Nintendo can up Wii production to supply the US with 250K units per week?
If there was an increase in weekly shipments of that order of magnitude there would be more evidence of it IMO. Stockpiling for Wii Fit on the other hand I can absolutely see going on.
Are you referring to the sentence "Mario Kart has been selling very steady. Not a huge rush like Smash Bros though. Seems about on par with Galaxy's sales" which mean 1.4 Million (SMG sales # for Dec) for 4 weeks, or 500 - 800K for one week ?
I don't think you should use this post as benchmark for prediction, since he also posted "360 sales have been dead. I did not sell a single 360 on the 29th.", which definitely is not NORMAL.
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