Nintendo Europe: 20 Million is a Lot Of Wii
40 million is a lot of DS but not quite so amusing
Not to be brought low by mounting disquiet with sales of the Wii, Nintendo in Europe is has announced that in its territory, 40 million DSs and 20 million Wiis are "being played across Europe."
Now, we've got to assume here that Ninty is referring to units that have been sold rather than those that have been doled out free to celebs and peons like us. We are, in fact, told that "Wii continues its momentum becoming the fastest selling home console in Europe by reaching the 20 million milestone in just over three years."
Here, in fact, are some officially supplied figures (bear in mind that these sales figures are 'Sell through estimate as of December 31st 2009, based on Nintendo Of Europe internal sales panel'):
- 9.6 million people own the "Wii Fit range".
- "Around five million" copies of Wii Sports Resort have been sold "in the five months since its launch in late July."
- "New Super Mario Bros. Wii, (has) sales now reaching 2.5 million in just over a month since its launch in November."
- Total European Sales of Wii Fit with Balance Board: 8 million
- Total European Sales of Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board: 1.6 million
- Total European Sales Wii Fit Plus solus: 1.4 million
We await both Sony and Microsoft to let rip with their European figures ASAP.
Now, we've got to assume here that Ninty is referring to units that have been sold rather than those that have been doled out free to celebs and peons like us. We are, in fact, told that "Wii continues its momentum becoming the fastest selling home console in Europe by reaching the 20 million milestone in just over three years."
Here, in fact, are some officially supplied figures (bear in mind that these sales figures are 'Sell through estimate as of December 31st 2009, based on Nintendo Of Europe internal sales panel'):
- 9.6 million people own the "Wii Fit range".
- "Around five million" copies of Wii Sports Resort have been sold "in the five months since its launch in late July."
- "New Super Mario Bros. Wii, (has) sales now reaching 2.5 million in just over a month since its launch in November."
- Total European Sales of Wii Fit with Balance Board: 8 million
- Total European Sales of Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board: 1.6 million
- Total European Sales Wii Fit Plus solus: 1.4 million
We await both Sony and Microsoft to let rip with their European figures ASAP.
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Joji 5 Jan 2010 17:41
1/4
Nice figures you got there, Nintendo. How many of those people will buy enough third party games, to help maintain the market? Few I bet.
OptimusP 5 Jan 2010 19:14
2/4
Simple Capitalism lad. If said third parties can't take advantage of new upcoming market conditions then they are not worth maintaining and the sooner they can be weeded out, the better for the general market.
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Fenlow 5 Jan 2010 19:48
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OptimusP wrote:
Simple Capitalism lad. If said third parties can't take advantage of new upcoming market conditions then they are not worth maintaining and the sooner they can be weeded out, the better for the general market.
or the market will collapse because it's too niche and the vital 3rd party support disappears. how many wii buyers bought into the wii on the promise of all the titles they couold buy after the fun of Wii sports wore off (even if they never actually followed thru)?
OptimusP 5 Jan 2010 20:04
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Fenlow wrote:
OptimusP wrote:
Simple Capitalism lad. If said third parties can't take advantage of new upcoming market conditions then they are not worth maintaining and the sooner they can be weeded out, the better for the general market.
or the market will collapse because it's too niche and the vital 3rd party support disappears. how many wii buyers bought into the wii on the promise of all the titles they couold buy after the fun of Wii sports wore off (even if they never actually followed thru)?
You do now that "attachment" rate of the Wii is higher then the PS3's...meaning, people owning Wii's have on average more games then people owning PS3's.
So why isn't anyone bashing the PS3 for killing third parties even faster by selling games at three times the cost of actually making them....What's that? The Nintendo fans? So the Nintendo fans on their own several times more games then the "hardcore" 360-owners evening out the average? Doesn't make the Nintendo-fans then more hardcore? Didn't anyone say, the Wii doesn't have any hardcore gamers...oooeeeh...facts can be so devious in crushing peoples misguided preconceptions.
Instead of putting the blame on Nintendo ask yourself this, why does Nintendo manage to make games that sell over 10 million copies on one platform (Nintendogs, Animal Crossing DS, NSMB, WiiFit, Wiiplay, Mario Kart DS and Wii and many others) and no one else, except for some very rare exceptions. What's the proces behind it, the reasons, the actual reasons, not the superficial stereotypical ones. Then ask yourself, why can't third parties replicate this? I know thinking is a new concept for some people (Hi Joji *wave wave*) but we're called the "Children of the Enlightement" for a reason right?