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- AKBryant54, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49The reason they don't have 10 million units sold, is because they haven't made 10 million units.
- kevinmoore, on 06/13/2009, -4/+45Nintendo makes a profit on each Wii sold. Sony loses money on each PS3 sold.
- DanteDefiance, on 10/12/2007, -4/+38Remember when the DS first came out? I bought it and thought it was SUCH a waste of money. Not only because of the scarce games, but because no one was utilizing the duel screens correctly. I really wanted to buy a PSP...my friend had one and was blown away at what it could do.
That was then. Now the DS has found it's stride and is gaming machine I play the most. The games are engaging, unique, and most of all FUN FUN FUN. My friend has even sold his PSP in favor of the DS Lite. In the end, it wasn't about what the hardware could do, it was what the brilliant minds behind the software could accomplish. Which is something Nintendo understands, and is the main reason their dominating now.
I have faith the same will hold true for the Wii. - kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32What's funny is how this news comes out the same day Sony announces a partnership with Hasbro to combine trading cards and videogames using a new Sony video camera designed for the PS3. It's being called "unconventional." The irony of Wii success news coming out the same day as the PS3 doing something unconventional... priceless! It's especially ironic considering Sony called the Wii a novelty:
http://www.computers.net/2007/04/sony_now_trying.html - VCAT, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32Double whammy for a lot of Digg'ers I bet (Apple + Nintendo upside surprises in < 24 hours). How many of you own shares of both companies? *raises hand*
- MatchStick, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27the only reason nintendo sold less than their predicted number of Wiis is that thier production is too slow to meet demand, not because Wiis are collecting dust on store shelves like ps3s are.
- mweels, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25
Congratulations to Nintendo for understanding that functionality and value comes before technology. - giveer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Number of Wii's sold: 5.84 million.
Number of Wii's available for purchase in Toronto: 0. - thefaithful, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17You're forgetting their original forecast was to try to sell 4 million by the end of March.
They had to revise their numbers up after they saw the popularity.
So is "We only sold 1.8 million more than expected rather than 2 million more" really a downer? - MillenniumX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Nintendo is not purposely withholding the Wii. This can, in fact, be proven. So go ahead any buy one with a good conscience, because the shortage game is one that Nintendo doesn't play.
- c0ldfusi0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17AND I STILL CAN'T FIND A GODDAMN WII!!!
- VOOK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I wish had shares in Nintendo, too expensive too buy now though.
Legend what do you mean? - AC1DREIGN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Great too see the Wii doing so well. I love mine, and I'll be damned if I get tired of playing it.
Still, I really feel that Nintendo should be offering some price cuts in the coming year, seeing as they are making so much profit. I want to see controllers go down to $30 and $15 for the Remote and Nunchuck respectively. - SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Holding back supply on purpose creates less profit for them.
- MillenniumX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"After all the hype surrounding the Wii's sales numbers, I was shocked to see they were only 5.8 million."
Keep in mind that this figure is as of about March 19: old by the fans' standards. It does, however, knock a big hole in Gamestop's little "Nintendo held back Wiis after making their numbers for the year" theory: Nintendo didn't make its numbers, and therefore had no reason to hold them back. - McTendo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Your troll comment was gimmicky, underpowered and without much merit, as like all troll comments. You kids (you know, because you're eleven and all) need to get together and come up better material. This is just worn out, rehashed, broken record, D grade trolling. Blocked for making me yawn.
- walkingdogs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@doomII
Get the hell off your high horse. If it wasn't for nintendo (who originally teamed with sony to create a CD add on to the NES) your precious PS3 or XBOX 360 probably wouldn't even exist. It's not a gimmick. Shiny graphics backed up by the same old stale game play is a gimmick. Go play Zelda or SSX Blur and then come tell me they are basic games. The thing has been out 6 months, give game makers a little bit longer than 3 days to make games that utilize a totally new control method. And believe this, if the Wii keeps selling like it is and the PS3 keeps floundering we will see next year what system is a gimmick and game makers will flock to the Wii and abandon the PS3 at an astronomical rate (which is already beginning to happen). And by the way if it is a living person who buys a console and buys several games over the life of that console then they are real gamers. They didn't sell almost 6 million consoles in 6 months to imaginary people. Get Bent!! - daridave, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I don't, but I f'ing wish I did! Which means I hate you. j/k :)
I'm glad to hear this kind of news. Too many people call the Wii "gimmick". It is different, disrupting, but at 5.8 million, it's everything BUT a gimmick. - Antialias, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Buy through Sharebuilder, you can buy fractions of shares if necessary. I bought a good number of shares with only a $4 trade fee.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Ken Kutaragi leaving Sony (demoted) in June PS3 was the nail in his coffin after the under powered kidde toy DS blew PSP out the water
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/26/sonys-ken-kutaragi-leaving-sce-chairman-and-ceo-spots-in-june/ - justice7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yeah thats wonderful...
Mostly because now that there is an installed userbase, hopefully the developers/publishers out there will start thinking about making decent Wii games.
The games available right now are kinda crap -- but the DS started this way; so if you havn't found a Wii yet, really the only thing you are missing out on is Wii Sports. - growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Yet I still can't find one, I envy everyone who owns a Wii right now
- philipz78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Aye, stay away from me Money Bin!
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I thought it was six million by June
- johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I still rather like Trauma Center, and my kids and I have been playing Super Paper Mario, so there's at least that.
Actually, my 5 year old wants to play fraking Super Mario 64 all the time. Go figure. - SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I hear Bill Gates uses his billions to feed spotted owls to baby rhinos and then eats their liver. Therefore I'm not going to buy an XBOX 360.
Do you believe everything you read? - jpbleuu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6i wonder if the execs at nintendo had a giant vault made to store all this money so they could go and swim in it like they were uncle scrooge.
- PhrosTT, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6NTDOY.PK owns me.
Thanks for paying for my 42" LCD and cruise nintendo.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NTDOY.PK&t=2y - charlescheese, on 10/12/2007, -25/+28If this were a PS3 article it would read, "PS3 MISSES numbers, falls short of 6 million console expectations". After all the hype surrounding the Wii's sales numbers, I was shocked to see they were only 5.8 million. The number of stories about how amazing the sales are, and how Nintendo is beating Sony 100 to 1, I expected they'd have at least 10 million in sales, and honestly I thought they'd sold more than that. The PS3 is closing in on 4 million in sales. So for a console with negative hype, it's not doing so bad compared to the Wii.
I own both consoles, and for the last three months the Wii has sat in the corner off. I sure hope they can create SOME kind of new innovative game using the controller. If they don't give us something new with wiimote, then that thing is going to lose its hype really quickly. Nintendo needs a killer app that uses the wiimote very soon. - johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I feel your pain, man. I got one on launch day, but that was by preordering it - and it was the second attempt at that. I showed up at Gamestop 90 minutes before it opened the first time, only to discover a line of 40 people to preorder. The second time, I hit Toys R Us at 0300, and *still* found 20 people there (luckily they were going to get 25 units) for the preorder.
I got my Dad one for Christmas when he said he wanted one, but that was another "show up at 0400 to stand in line at Target". For now, Nintendo can't seem to make enough of them, and when October rolls around, I see demand increasing again just in time for the Christmas rush.
For Nintendo, it's a *great* time. - AC1DREIGN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Some of the Wii's total value is definitely in the VC titles*. They are great if you don't have your old consoles or they don't work anymore.
As for games, there are a few worth checking out right now, but nothing very strong. Come Smash Brothers, Metroid, and Mario Galaxy, Wii sales will skyrocket.
* I WANT GOLDENEYE DAMNIT!!!! - sonic2120, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I love seeing everyone say something about not being able to find a Wii. In the past two weeks I have seen probably 15 for sale(bestbuy and walmart). They don't last very long but its not that hard to obtain one in Alabama. I got mine at launch so no worries here. You diggers should raid Alabama for a Wii.
- Orlex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4BREAKING NEWS: You grew out of gaming by the sounds of it.
- waywrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude, please, Hollywood has dominated the global movie industry for years, and you're calling Japanese people bastards for getting a small piece of the entertainment pie in the video game industry? I'm sure whatever Japan takes away from the US in video game sales is miniscule compared to whatever Hollywood reaps from the rest of the world.
- howie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There are several major games on the way for Wii, such as Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime and Super Smash Bros.
It's not like there will be no games for two years because no one has started making them yet. - Hellmark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well considering that the wii still sells out almost immediately when a store gets stock, and I know many people still wanting one, I would have to say that the sales issue on the Wii, is due to Nintendo being unable to keep up with stock. But all in all, considering that the fiscal year ended end of March, and that they are up around 6.4 million sold total since then, its not really all that bad news.
- allenb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Contrary to popular belief, capitalism, and the benefits of it, are not purely an American preserve.
And to think you're complaining now... wait until China and India get up to full speed. Welcome to the 21st century, it's only going to get worse for the west. - grumbel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1### the only reason nintendo sold less than their predicted number of Wiis is that thier production is too slow to meet demand
Why should Nintendo misspredict their own production? If there is anything that they should know relatively sure its how many Wiis they can produce. - FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Nintendo will pay the down payment on my next house :)
Easiest money I've ever made! - Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It doesn't say it in this article, but the report was only up to March 31st. There are a bunch of articles about these new numbers, I'm sure you can find them if you really care.
Oh, and here's what the guy who runs Vgchartz said about the whole thing:
We have been tracking a little high in "Others" but for Japan and NA we were spot on, remember that we are nearly at the end of April now...
We have adjusted the front page data accordingly. Remember that data for "others" is always going to be the least accurate since we simply don't get all the data and have to make a number of projections / extrapolations. - Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Vgchartz is dead on accurate with Wii numbers at the moment. The numbers in this article are several weeks old, and the Wii moves well over 100k units a week worldwide. They were around 6.6M at the beginning of the week, but adjusted their numbers a bit after this.
The whole X360 selling ten million by the end of the year was a huge sham. Microsoft had decided they needed to make it when they first announced it, and fudged the numbers/made inaccurate statements to back it up. Info on this isn't exactly hard to find. - grumbel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The bad part is that a good game can easily take two years or more to develop, so even if all the developers start right now, it will take quite a long long while till the tripple-A title finally hit the shelfs. So far I haven't even seen announcements of what I would call a third-party tripple-A title, so the current game drought might continue for a while.
- OddTSi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@doomII
What's consoles shipped? Microsoft's number during CES, Nintendo's announcement today, and VGChartz claims are all consoles SOLD.
@Parokki
How are the numbers several weeks old? The article and the official Nintendo press release are all dated TODAY, April 26th. Unless you're from the future those numbers are accurate and are not old. - rintrah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It's a great time to be a MOSY shareholder!
- Hobofuzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@kazzyD
That sounds a whole lot like the e-card reader... - revenge7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Well, I just bought VIRTUAL Nintendo stock. Does that count?
- McTendo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Drive to Belleville?
- newinvestor123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You dorks, this report was for Nintendo's fiscal 2006 which ENDED IN MARCH! They only SLIGHTLY missed their EXPECTATIONS which were UPWARDLY REVISED FOUR TIMES SINCE THE WII'S LAUNCH! Exactly how is that a failure? I don't know about VGCharts' numbers, because I think their website revisions are horrid, and I'm not going to waste my precious time there... But yes, the Wii has sold 2.5 times more units than the PS3, and yes, the DS has sold 2x more units than the PSP, yes, game makers are jumping all over themselves to create innovate content for the Wii, so yes, we will see some outstanding games within the next 6 months, and yes, that will create a reciprocal effect - More consoles sold = More potential game buyers = More resources utilized to create games = Better games = More consoles sold. That's why the first 6 months are so important, but as we saw with the GameCube, they don't mean everything... I own both (a veritable ***** of) Nintendo stock and a Wii, and while the Nintendo stock has impressed me very much since October, the Wii has not. Honestly, I don't know why people like it so much, but as long as it keeps selling and my stock keeps rising, I will be a happy camper.
- waywrong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Author of the article seems to be using Profit and Income interchangeably. Profit does not equal Income. Yes, Nintendo's income may have risen 77%, but they might be making the same profit, or even less, depending on how much money they've spent the past year. I just want to point that out. I'm sure that Nintendo is making tons of money, and is seeing an increase in profit. But usually, the % rise in income won't equal the % rise in profit, because you have to spend money to make money.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3that is concoles shipped. Not consoles sold to consumers. Estimates say it's still only 4 million, it's all over the net. MS buys it's own consoles, it's really pathetic in a way.
Still it can't hurt to have a REALLY REALLY rich company produce your console. Still think I'm going ps3 though, better games. Ps1 and ps2 where so good to me, I owe it to sony to wait a bit more and then seriously consider a ps3 (when it's a little cheaper:P) -
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