NPD - December 2008!

[jkwest]

Maxy...our own private psychic!! I sure hope December 2009 will be better than that!!!

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by jkwest

Maxy...our own private psychic!! I sure hope December 2009 will be better than that!!!

Fix'd!

[saprano]

I thought the wii was going to sell 3 million?

[Elandyll]

The Sony consoles are the bottom 3, it's pretty much a disaster in term of market share (even the PS2 becomes irrelevant, despite -i'm sure- it's good margin in $$).
The price cut can't come too soon imo.

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by saprano

I thought the wii was going to sell 3 million?

Really?

According to which people. I always figured Nov and Dec would be much the same as Nintendo were cranking out Wiis as quick as possible pre Xmas, and it sold 2m in Nov. I doubted their ability to suddenly increase supply from 2m to 3m in such a short period of time.

[blu2]

Dec 2008 vs Dec 2007:

PS2 - 410k vs 1.1m
PS3 - 726k vs 798k
PSP- 1.02m vs 1.06 million
DS - 3.04m vs 2.47m
Wii - 2.15m vs 1.35m
360 - 1.44m vs 1.26m

All Sony h/w down, everyone else up.

[bajor27]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Really?

According to which people. I always figured Nov and Dec would be much the same as Nintendo were cranking out Wiis as quick as possible pre Xmas, and it sold 2m in Nov. I doubted their ability to suddenly increase supply from 2m to 3m in such a short period of time.

Here is the link to the article which had wii selling 3.25 mil in December NPD. Guess Michael Pachter was wrong (though that doesn't surprise me)

[Terjyn]

It's pretty much right what I expected. Sony down somewhat, 360 up somewhat, Wii supply constrained again (can't sell 2 million in November without selling out most of the existing stock).

Don't really understand the DS, but never really have.

[yobrenoops]

Whats the worldwide LTD position, does anyone know?

Obviously most interweb sites are a touch US-centric so this whole console war is very much skewed towards 360.

[b0bby]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Really?

According to which people. I always figured Nov and Dec would be much the same as Nintendo were cranking out Wiis as quick as possible pre Xmas, and it sold 2m in Nov. I doubted their ability to suddenly increase supply from 2m to 3m in such a short period of time.

yeh its not that wii wouldn't have sold 3 mill its that they didn't have 3 mill units. they are still nowhere to be found everywhere i go. its sad but if there was 5 mill units a month they would sell that. 10 mill they would probably sell that too...

[Terjyn]

I wouldn't go that far anymore.

For most of November the Wii was finally not supply constrained. They were *everywhere*.

Black Friday sucked them all up sure, but I'll be surprised if the Supply constraint continues very far into the new year, unless Nintendo stops all production.

[mightypen]

Here's another interesting historical comparison I saw posted elsewhere:

At the 26 month mark:

Wii (Dec 2008): 17.54m
GBA (July 2003): 14.71m
Playstation 2 (Nov 2002): 12.99m
Nintendo DS (Dec 2006): 9.13m
Xbox 360 (Dec 2007): 9.12m
Xbox (Dec 2003): 7.68m
PSP (April 2007): 7.41m
PS3 (Dec 2008): 6.79m
Gamecube (Dec 2003): 6.73m

[xtop]

Originally Posted by mightypen

Here's another interesting historical comparison I saw posted elsewhere:

hmm..interesting. if thats true, i would have expected the ds to be much higher