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It’s so on. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said in Japan this week that he’s aiming for Wii’s sales to beat PS2’s. That’s a lot of sales. It’s 97.5 million sales, to be specific.
What we are looking at are the cumulative Wii and DS sales through the end of 2008. Wii has been selling at industry’s record pace so far, and with new customers acquired by the gaming population expansion efforts, it is not impossible for Wii’s total sales to exceed the final install base of PS2. Wii still has much more room for expansion. We can expect more sales of software in the next fiscal year than in the current year. With what kind of software is Nintendo going to achieve this goal? Well, it will be shown at E3 to be held in the U.S. this June.
Wii, by comparison, has so far sold 39.3 million worldwide. We’re pretty sure another Zelda isn’t going to net 60 million hardware sales.
It’s January. And we’re pumped for E3. Big Satoru: you’re the best.
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doctorstrange said:
i thought there were 130 million ps2’s
Psychotext said:
~136m at last count.
patlike said:
I just copied that number from MTV. Have they crossed some wires somewhere?
Mike said:
US only perhaps? Or Japan only?
doctorstrange said:
definately not japan
reask said:
They probably will do it.
doctorstrange said:
twill be interesting to see what they do with their mountains of cash
theevilaires said:
hahahhahaha you do know that many hardcore gamers are cashing their wiis in at gamestop for money right,because of the economy. myself including many many other hardcore games will never buy a wii, point period, its not for us.ps2 sold well because there were “great games” on it and for some a dvd player.
Psychotext said:
I wouldn’t have thought that many hardcore gamers bought the thing in the first place.
doctorstrange said:
im still keeping mine in a vain hope that something good comes along. That and im strangely addicted to excite truck
theevilaires said:
Maybe you would have, if you weren’t busy attacking sony every second of your pathetic life. You would have notice that a lot of hardcore gamers got fooled into buying a wii for games like zelda at launch and was slowly spoon fed titles such as metriod and mario galaxy. I still can’t believe the hardcore gamers tried to defend this move made by nintendo, maybe they were too embarrassed to justify their purchase? But a turn of events has come now. Not for sales but for the hardcore loyalist of nintendo. Ever since E3 2008 hardcore fans of nintendo have been disgusted with the wiis lack of good games. It will probably bite them in the butt soon.
I’ll let you guys in on a little secret. Its kind of off topic. I have these neighbors down the street from my house in california. They are fucking loaded with money. For some reason the husband bought his wife a wii and one day while he was gone she asked me if i’d like to come in and try it out. To make a long story short she was playing with my wii mote if you know what i’m saying. I truly am an evil mofo, i know im going to hell when i die.
Mike said:
Psychotext said:
The story was going so well until it involved you getting laid. At that point I found it hard to believe.
sackboy said:
Dude you watch to much porn!!! move on.
Gekidami said:
So Nintendo might actually show a game at E3 rather then just another app for their gadget?!
I bet thet show about 1min of some new Marrio thing then go back to Wii Sports 2…
theevilaires said:
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Psychotext said:
January 31st, 2009 at 12:02 am
The story was going so well until it involved you getting laid. At that point I found it hard to believe.
i say the same thing every time you mention you have a ps3
theevilaires said:
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sackboy said:
January 31st, 2009 at 1:08 am
Dude you watch to much porn!!! move on.
awwhh little man are you jealous your fantasy has already become my reality
i tell you what next time i’ll send you a chat invite and use my playstation eye. ok?, that way at least your fantasy can come half way true. I won’t be in cali until another 3 months but send me a friends invite.
Psychotext said:
Now that’s a disturbing image.
theevilaires said:
To you i would assume it would be disturbing. After all you are more at ease seeing two guys on camera together
Psychotext said:
It was actually the thought of seeing you naked which was the disturbing part.
theevilaires said:
not to brag or say i’m gay or anything but a gay guy like you would probably fine me pretty attractive. I’m currently living in Manhattan and i get stared down by your kind more than i like. So the disturbing part is a puzzle because i know people like you wouldn’t turn down good stuff like me. Must be your hatred for Sony that made you say that
Psychotext said:
lmao
theevilaires said:
lmao x2
Squa11 said:
I live in the Bronx as? <3
ROFLCOPTER
sackboy said:
@the guygay the evilgay,dude i just did your mom! i send the pictures next time .
the video is here…..
http://video.xnxx.com/video100980/cock_smokering_bitch
Robo_1 said:
Well if any company has the right to be cocky at the moment, it’s the big N. Toppling the PS2’s sales record would still be no small achievement for the Wii. The PS2 was very much an everyman console, catering to the hardcore and the casual market with equally solid titles.
The Wii has proven that it’s got the casual market sewn up, but until they have a title which gets the core gamer as excited as GTA3 did, then I still reckon they’ve got some work to do.
It’s certainly possible, but even if they manage to topple PS2’s sales record, I doubt it will ever scathe the total software sales.
Panipal2005 said:
I wonder how Iwata’s going to get Reggie the Asshole on board with this strategy? After all, it’ll take GAMES to get it done, and Reggie doesn’t seem to like GAMES being available for the Wii.
Is Reggie dead weight? I think so!
Tonka said:
Why on earth do you people think they will show games? The Wii didn’t become undisputed no1 by selling games.
Look at the facts not your own fan dribble.
n00bs
Squa11 said:
You guys do realize Nintendo has another 3 years to topple PS2’s sales right?
That’s plenty of time to surpass it.
Psychotext said:
Quite a bit longer than 3 years arguably. Even if they release a new machine it doesn’t automatically mean that they’ll stop selling the old one.
Tonka said:
Could someone enlighten Psycho as to what is supposed to happen in 2012.