Nintendo raises profit projections. Again.
Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 8:35pm by ErickNintendo Corporation now expects to ship 16.5 million Wiis and 26 million DSes by March 2008, reports GamesIndustry.biz. These figures are up from Nintendo’s previous projections at 14 million Wiis and 22 million DSes.
For those of you keeping score at home, the official count at the end of June 2007 is now 9.27 million Wiis and 47.27 DSes sold. Chris Hecker is no doubt very disappointed in all of you.
July 26th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
hahha- every time i read his name, i mistakenly read ‘heckler’.
once again: brockerage acct ftw! woot!
360 had such a lead and HOLY COW did they blow it with advertising. i’m not saying its the fault of their mkting dept that ninny’s catching them (that may have been an eventuality), but even sony’s ads have looked inspired next to the 360s tv spots. which is scary to think. the 360 got to 10 mil and took a nap. where did the clever jump in ads go???
July 26th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Heh heh. That asshole’s sure eating his words.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Money Money Money !!!
July 26th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
You think Hecker was humiliated when he had to issue his retraction the next day, wait till he has to stand up there on stage later this year or early next, maybe even at GDC 08, and has to announce the Wii version of Spore with a big smile on his face.
Of course, his words seem hollow enough already with the announcement of the DS version, since the Wii has about 8 times the CPU power and 20 times the RAM of the DS.
July 27th, 2007 at 4:51 am
The Wii is selling like gangbusters right now but “could” it all go pear-shaped?
The RE5 trailer is getting a lot of people’s attention, as is GTA4, not to mention other exclusives for a certain shiny, black box?
#ahem#
Not being controversial, just stirring up a bit of debate…
July 27th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Wii may be selling like gangbusters now but will it last?
With GTA4 on the horizon and titles like MGS4 and RE5 down the line will the Wii be able to compete?
Will there come a time when the sale of Wii will hit a “wall”
Not being controversial, just stimulating debate…
July 27th, 2007 at 9:36 am
I am glad to see them doing well. But kinda off topic I hate that LG ad that pops up between the front page and the comments section. Some of us are stuck on dial up and it is totally not dial up friendly and takes forever to get past and the skip button most of the time does not work for me maybe a dial up thing. I don’t mind seeing ads one but but that one is out of hand.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Ok, so I’m using vgchartz for this sales data, and while they may not be considered the most reliable they serve to illustrate my point: GTA4, MGS4, RE5, and even FF13 don’t matter nearly as much as people seem to think.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold roughly 14.88 million copies worldwide.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater sold roughly 3.96 million copies worldwide.
Resident Evil 4 sold roughly 3.6 million copies worldwide between the gamecube and ps2 versions.
Final Fantasy 12 sold roughly 4.94 million copies worldwide.
Again, vgchartz isn’t the most accurate, but the actual numbers aren’t important. It’s the relative numbers I’m looking at. These sales were on a system, PS2, with a estimated install base of 100+ million, and that costs a fraction of the price of the PS3. PS3 has sold about 5.5 million so far. MGS4 and RE5 are not going to cause such a massive explosion in sales that PS3 somehow miraculously catches up to the Wii. GTA4 stands to help the most based on precedence, but remember it, like RE5 too, is also coming to the 360, a cheaper system with a larger userbase and near identical graphical capabilities. Even FF13, the game many people claim to want a PS3 for, won’t light PS3 sales on fire by itself. Gamecube had big releases too, and all they amounted to were marginal increases in sales for a while, and the same several million people who already had the system being the ones buying the games and giving them the good sales. PS3 is the Gamecube/N64 of this generation. A release list sprinkled with blockbuster titles that will likely be critically acclaimed as some of the best of the generation, and that’s about it.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Reading over my comment again I couldn’t help but be bothered by the PS3 sales numbers I used. It just seems too high, so I did a quick check of the latest NPD and Media Create PS3 LTD sales:
NPD ~ 1.45 million
MC ~ 0.99 million
VGC ~ 2.62 million in US and 1.26 million in Japan
Maybe VGC details the shipped numbers instead because that is a huge discrepency. I know vgchartz is not very reliable, but DAMN! Anyways, I’ll just adjust the PS3 total a bit and the new total is:
PS3 ~ 4.06 million worldwide (and I’m guessing it would be even lower if I tracked down sales for all othe regions too, but I’m not that concerned with this)
The other numbers are likely off by quite a bit too, but again those are there to show that all the big hitters are not the reason the PS2 has over 100 million units sold. It’s the multitude of other games that are responsible.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
It’s funny - people always ask “How will Wii compete without Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, and Grand Theft Auto?”, but never ask “How will 360/PS3 compete without Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and Smash Bros?”
July 28th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Whether or not the Wii “hits a wall”, MIS, the fact that basically every third-party developer who’s not graphics-focused (i.e. Crytek) will be targeting the Wii now for games that won’t appear for a year or two yet means that the Wii has almost won this generation already.
The wall would have to be hit within the next year, or something a lot bigger than Halo 3 or MGS4 would have to happen to one of the other consoles, for it to stop from happening. While Sony still sometimes talks like they still think they’re the market leader, for the most part their rhetoric has already started shifting to a much harder market battle: avoiding last place.