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Wii Breaks Aussie Sales Records - pwnd

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We don't know why he keeps buying PAL, either.
In the first four days of sale, 32,901 consumers purchased Wii.

Wii has officially broken the Australian record for the biggest launch of a video game system in history. Wii console sales accounted for 43% of all video game hardware sold last week. This was followed by the Nintendo DS, which represented 24% of the total market.

All together, Nintendo accounted for 67% of all hardware sales last week - Two out of three consoles sold in Australia last week were Nintendo consoles.
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Not a crushing launch, but a record is a record. The Wii is racking up great numbers everywhere. They've definately taken the crown for "Smoothest Launch" this time around.
 
Syb said:
Thats like what? 2 thousand more than the 360 managed? Oh well, a win is a win. :)
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The 360 sales are for the whole week too, this is just 4 days. Plus Shortages :P
 
:lol

When things are going good ... things go really good in this industry it seems. Right now Nintendo could launch the system on Mars and it would sell out.
 
Wow, if only Nintendo wasn't working so hard getting the marketing/shipping right, I'm sure they'd be partying it up.

It's good news after good news for Nintendo this week. Bring on the Media Create charts! :lol
 
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VOOK said:
The 360 sales are for the whole week too, this is just 4 days. Plus Shortages :P
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No, the 360 sales were actually for 4 days also. Well thats what GamesIndustry reported. Fantastic Wii sales nevertheless. :)
 
VOOK said:
The 360 sales are for the whole week too, this is just 4 days. Plus Shortages :P
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No, it was for the same timeframe. And MS launched there well after the shortages had been resolved. There's lots of ways to spin this both ways, no need to invent some. :p
 
So DS sold more than 18k this past week in Australia? and Microsoft released a press release about its 4k X360 sales? How pathetic :lol
 
Syb said:
No, the 360 sales were actually for 4 days also. Well thats what GamesIndustry reported. Fantastic Wii sales nevertheless. :)
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Haha well MS's loss for choosing 4 days if they had said the entire week it would of looked much more impressive.
 
GhaleonEB said:
No, it was for the same timeframe. And MS launched there well after the shortages had been resolved. There's lots of ways to spin this both ways, no need to invent some. :p
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So Microsoft sold 30k X360 without shortage while Nintendo sold 33k Wiis with a shortage, whats the problem? Actually its what VOOK said except the whole week mistake.
 
Its the Xbots still trying to spin it, just like the PR last night from Xbox Australia.

They played there PR last night and tried to out do Nintendo then Nintendo does their PR today with a higher figure and makes MS look like idiots for bragging about theres.

MS should of shut its trap and not released there PR which now looks stupid and insignificant or waited for today and used some fancy wording so it looked like it sold more.
 
Hmm, looks like Nintendo pulled off the worldwide launch pretty darn well. But launch shipments in all territories have been ~10% or so under initial expectations. Still, pretty good.
 
VOOK said:
Its the Xbots still trying to spin it, just like the PR last night from Xbox Australia.

They played there PR last night and tried to out do Nintendo then Nintendo does their PR today with a higher figure and makes MS look like idiots for bragging about theres.

MS should of shut its trap and not released there PR which now looks stupid and insignificant
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Your Nintendo and MS checks are in the mail! Congrats!
 
«þ» said:
That's 20% of GC's LTD in Australia sold in 4 days.
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This is just mind boggling. The Wii might just outsell the GC LTD in markets like the U.K., Japan, and Australia before the end of 2007.
 
How do those figures equate to dollaroonies? Surely MS are teh winner at their higher price-point? Or is Wii the winner being less value? o.O
 
Sorry for the off topic but does anyone know why the first post in some topics changes a different color for me?

 
starship said:
So Microsoft sold 30k X360 without shortage while Nintendo sold 33k Wiis with a shortage, whats the problem? Actually its what VOOK said except the whole week mistake.
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I was correcting the number of days on sale mistake. Nothing else to be said, as that was my only "problem". Touchy! :lol
 
Fusebox said:
How do those figures equate to dollaroonies? Surely MS are teh winner at their higher price-point?
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Joke post, amirite??
Even DS sales are higher than X360's one in terms of revenue. Do the math.
 
PhatSaqs said:
Your Nintendo and MS checks are in the mail! Congrats!
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If I got paid would i be at work :lol

Fusebox said:
How do those figures equate to dollaroonies? Surely MS are teh winner at their higher price-point? Or is Wii the winner being less value? o.O
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Wii only sold slightly more so MS would still be on top money wise but Nintendo are gonna sell more controllers you would think.

Trying to get the attach rate for Zelda and Wii Play too.
 
Relevant so:

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Zelda TP ends up number 1, I can't quite remember when the last time a game on a Nintendo home console even landed on the Top 10 chart (Resident Evil 4 didn't).

It's somewhat disappointing that only two Wii games made it, PSP launched with around 27,000 units and 9 out of the top 10 were PSP games (the other being Pokemon Emerald).
 
starship said:
So Microsoft sold 30k X360 without shortage while Nintendo sold 33k Wiis with a shortage, whats the problem? Actually its what VOOK said except the whole week mistake.
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If I can remember correctly the 360 like the Wii had pretty bad shortages in some areas, well thats what I experienced. Thats what happens when you ship insignificant amounts of units for console launches, If Nintendo had shipped double they probably could have sold through them all. Props to em for advertising though, guess it paid off.
 
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Relevant so:

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Zelda TP ends up number 1, I can't quite remember when the last time a game on a Nintendo home console even landed on the Top 10 chart (Resident Evil 4 didn't).

It's somewhat disappointing that only two Wii games made it, PSP launched with around 27,000 units and 9 out of the top 10 were PSP games (the other being Pokemon Emerald).
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The PSP also launched outside of the Xmas period when no other new games where out, thus its total flattening of charts, the Wii launched 2-3 weeks before Xmas with the sales on and the 1.8million PS2 owners buying cheap games from the catalogue.

I think its impressive even Red Steel was there as that's one of the only games that had good stock levels other then Zelda and Wii Play (which was'nt counted).

Hopefully we'll see Zelda stick there for a while and some other games float into the top ten.

More shipments this week should continue to sell loads, but people who aint buying Wii's are going for 360's
 
GhaleonEB said:
I was correcting the number of days on sale mistake. Nothing else to be said, as that was my only "problem". Touchy! :lol
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GhaleonEB said:
No, it was for the same timeframe. And MS launched there well after the shortages had been resolved. There's lots of ways to spin this both ways, no need to invent some. :p
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But only first part of your reply addressed his mistake. You said: "And MS launched there well after the shortages had been resolved." as he said otherwise?! And if there's lots of ways to spin this, can you say one of them? Of course not that ridiculous revenue is higher blah blah blah.
 
«þ» said:
It's somewhat disappointing that only two Wii games made it, PSP launched with around 27,000 units and 9 out of the top 10 were PSP games (the other being Pokemon Emerald).
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What's worse is that people are buying Cricket 07.





Don't buy Cricket 07, people.
 
It's pretty cheap over there, definitely compared to NZ, and according to my sister, a lot of accessories are becoming very hard to find.
 
«þ» said:
It's somewhat disappointing that only two Wii games made it, PSP launched with around 27,000 units and 9 out of the top 10 were PSP games (the other being Pokemon Emerald).
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That's the price of a pack-in game, and the exact reason why third parties hate them.
 
would you really expect anything less? Hell no. It's amazing to see what the Wii is doing to the charts right now. What will happen in the next couple years? Well... that might be another story.
 
Wii said:
Surprised Wii Play isn't on that chart, it seemed like everyone at the store I went to also picked up Wii Play
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Wii Play bundle isn't counted as software maybe?
 
Wii said:
Surprised Wii Play isn't on that chart, it seemed like everyone at the store I went to also picked up Wii Play
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It got counted as Hardware, the attach rate for that would be like 80% I think :lol
 
Gee, not bad!

I'm sincerely hoping I don't regret going PAL this time around (went NTSC for the Cube). With some decent numbers hopefully PAL regions get their game releases quick. Sure it still costs more to buy games and we're getting shafted on Virtual Console in price and also 50hz but I guess the advantage is being able to rent and also head down to the store and pick up a game on the day you want.

I was planning on getting a NTSC Wii down the road but maybe I'll never have to if we stop getting treated as third class consumers (maybe we'll jump up to second, first class will never happen for PAL regions :lol ).
 
No#1 for Zelda is awesome considering I have 3 mates who all got Wii's but haven't even been able to get Zelda yet because of shortages, although considering the other launch titles a 1:1 tie-in was always gonna be a given.
 
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