Interestingly, with the launch of Wii Fit coming soon, Sebastian also noted that Nintendo may "consider incremental production and/or shifting of regional unit allocation." He said that his forecast for 2008 of six to seven million Wiis sold in North America will "likely prove conservative."
@Mushashi, If this game explode, those who drove down the stock price to 600 DKP will feel the pain. I wished I was online at that time, so I can buy Wii Fit stock at "one time only low price" (to paraphrase Walmart's motto).
Play.com has sold out of its entire allocation of Wii Fit in just one day, ahead of the games official release on April 25 in the UK.
Pre-order demand has "overwhelmed" the online retailer, following success in Japan that saw the game sell one million copies in just over a month on sale.
"Wii Fit is going to be huge – let’s hope that we can keep up with demand. We are expecting more stock before launch," he added.
@deftangel, Anyone shorting Wii Fit at 800 DKP price point is a little bit too pessimistic. I can see it not getting to 1400 DKP, but not getting to 800 ? The risk is too great.
It would seem to me that a pretty significant player is extremely bearish on this stock. The price has collapsed twice in the last week bottoming out at 800DKP just now.
Wii Fit sales are approx 1.7m in Japan alone and it charts in the top 5 every week. I'd be interested to hear any reasoning behind why over 8m lifetime is not achievable?
According to Famitsu figures, Nintendo’s Wii Fot was the biggest selling game in Japan last year with 1.76 million units sold for the period ending March 30 2008.
Mario Party DS was second with 1.66 million, and Wii Sports was in third place with 1.62 million.
More through the link.
No one interested in a $10 profit? Um, I think you're wrong. After development/production costs, I doubt that many games have a profit margin that high at release. Besides, about 10-20% of a game's retail price goes directly to retailers.
i know historically when people make mistakes when placing orders, the admins have rolled back the orders. i know it happened to me when i saw someone had bought really high into an IPO and i shorted it massively. later on that future disappeared from my portfolio and the admins said the orders were rolled back because someone typed in an extra 0.
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