November 15, 2009 • 6:30 pm
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime has spoken openly to news network CNBC about his feelings on Modern Warfare 2’s phenomenal success.
You know, I was not (surprised about Modern Warfare 2’s success). We know that it’s a high-quality title. We know that it will do exceptionally well. Their challenge is going to be sustaining that. It was so big so fast, what happens next week and the week after? Versus, Mario is going to sell for high numbers every day now through, really, for the next couple of years”
- Reggie Fils-Aime
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October 30, 2009 • 7:50 pm
Whilst the Nintendo Wii remains the best selling console of this generation it’s common knowledge that sales in recent times have been on the decline. Satoru Iwata has accepted this, and has issued a smaller target for the full year – only 20 million units compared to the previous 26 million forecast..
“Wii has stalled. We were unable to continually release strong software, and let the nice mood cool. We were unable to show a new game to become ‘the next thing.’ In the game market, once you’ve lost the momentum, it takes time to recover. With the price drop, sales returned to a certain level, but they just did not reach the level of last year around this time.”
- President and CEO of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata
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October 24, 2009 • 4:41 pm
Executive vice president of sales and marketing, Cammie Dunaway, firmly believes that strong software titles are all-important to Nintendo and will in turn equate to strong, healthy software sales.
“We believe that the pipeline for games for experienced gamers is getting to be very robust and will continue to be so. I think strong games will have strong sales, and one of the things too is that these games can have really long tails. That it’s not just a matter of looking at the first month of sales.”
“Nintendo is working with third parties to help them understand that it’s all about taking advantage of the unique interface and our hardware. I think as people are getting more comfortable with our technology, they are creating better and better games.”
- Cammie Dunaway
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October 10, 2009 • 5:54 pm
It appears the Nintendo DSi is the console of choice for consumers in Japan as Media Create’s hardware chart for September 28th through to October 4th shows.
- DSi: 53,293 (63,342)
- PSP: 51,215 (17,334)
- PS3: 37,538 (39,960)
- Wii: 35,392 (11,731)
- DS Lite: 10,661 (15,057)
- X360: 4,244 (4,854)
- PS2: 2,179 (2,347)
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October 5, 2009 • 6:17 pm
Since the recent price cut Nintendo have seen sales of their Wii console double in the United States.
Nintendo have announced that they’ve sold in excess of 150,000 Wii units since their recently annouced price cut. To put that in perspective that’s double the weekly sales rate for the majority of the year.
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August 12, 2009 • 6:31 pm
Capcom have announced that they’re teaming up with Nintendo to promote the immensely popular Monster Hunter 3 overseas.
According to Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun financial newspaper Capcom will be doubling its strength by teaming up with Nintendo to promote Monster Hunter 3. The developer, which sold over 500,000 units of the game in its first two days, will be making use of Nintendo’s expertise in promoting the Pokemon franchise to help further increase sales.
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Capcom’s recently released Monster Hunter 3 has quadrupled Nintendo Wii sales throughout Japan.
The critically acclaimed Monster Hunter 3 has shifted a monstrous amount of Wii units in Japan. Sales for the Nintendo Wii were 95,357, up from about 24,000 units the week prior. Looks as though Nintendo are thoroughly reaping the benefits of the franchise appearing on their console.
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Wii Sports Resort continues to dominate multiplatform software sales in its first week of release in North America.
The recently released and well received Wii Sports Resort has topped sales charts in both America, Japan and the UK as widely expected. It’s shifted just shy of half a million copies in Japan alone, with similar sales expected the world over.
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Nintendo’s decidedly lacklustre release schedule for 2009 has ultimately damaged Wii hardware sales according to Nintendo themselves.
“What I can say is our launch calendar is very different from 2008 versus 2009, as you know. Last year we had three powerful titles, with Super Smash Bros. Brawl in March, Mario Kart in April and Wii Fit in May. I mean, those are blockbuster titles.”
“So we had a strong title launch in the first half of 2008, and we have a strong title launch in the second half of 2009. Wii Sports Resort really kicks off the back half of our launch calendar. Like you saw at E3, we have New Super Mario Bros. Wii launching this year and we have Wii Fit Plus launching this year. So with Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Fit Plus in the back half, that shows that we’ve just got a different launch of what we hope will be blockbuster titles.”
- Denise Kaigler, Nintendo
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Whilst the Wii is continuing to dominate the hardware charts, the reality is sales for the console have dropped as much as 50% year-over-year.
Michael Pachter, an analyst for Wedbush Morgan, genuinely believes that Nintendo will ultimately consider a price cut for the innovative console this holiday season.
We believe Nintendo will be more promotional, and will consider price cuts in order to increase sales during the holidays.
- Michael Pachter, Wedbush Morgan
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