Analyst: GameStop may lose Wii market share this year

And that's relevant to this article how?

Congratulations! You've moved up from a standard Wii-apologist to preemptive Wii-apologist. Mario would be proud.

Sounds like he has some sort of insider info that none of us know about



Or he's just talking out of his ass. That sounds more realistic.

I can't know what reasoning (or lack thereof?) Cody uses, but what he says is true. The monthly Nintendo Channel stats reveal that these games get a *lot* of play monthly

I guess he could have said FIRST instead. Either way, low ranked is still low ranked.

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It's probably true because (anecdotal) my local brick and mortars all have excess surplus of Wii consoles for the first time in a long time. I was in Best Buy today and they had a stack in the front of about 30 and a stack in game section also around 30 consoles. I don't know if its decreased demand (NPD says its not) or increased supply. It's also plausible that FEB NPD numbers had something to do with the Circuit City liquidation sales. Whatever it is it's good that people can finally walk into a store and find a Wii depending on their regional/local demand.

Or the buy it in the suburbs from the weirdo off craigslist thing.

i would totally do that if I can bring everything i had bought on the shop with me

You know how WiiWare and VC are signed to only work on the Wii is has been downloaded right.

Besides, friend codes are based on the Wii friend code.

Still, i'd rather paint the Wii myself, xD, to a nice navy blue

You realize people have been saying this for the past 28 months, and have consistently been proven wrong? They're somewhat like the Rapture nuts out there. Yes, at some point, the Wii has to slow down, just like at some point, the world has to end, so every day that it doesn't brings them one day closer to the day it does, yet they consistently predict that doom is imminent, just around the corner.

I've bet you have some big, strong muscles from constantly moving those big, heavy goal posts around so much.

Uh, where are these "empty Wii shelves" you're talking about? Especially if you're referring to GameStop stores, which this article is mainly pointing to, GameStop doesn't ever have systems out in the open --- they're all in the back. But they do have empty system boxes that are displayed on shelves for marketing purposes. But they are ALWAYS displayed, so there's no "empty Wii shelves" to drive hype.

And, the Wii has stopped being a thing of exclusivity a long time ago (all the GameStops in my area have signs that say "Wii is in stock!" and haven't experienced shortages since years ago). Yet they are still desired by consumers, because GS has to restock regularly.

Whether or not the Wiis get frequent use over the course of a year is a different story, but to say the Wiis have stopped selling or will stop selling soon is laughable. That's like saying the iPod is just the "it thing" when it came out and continuing to claim it's a fad even after all these years.

I think the decline in Japanese demand is the best possible indicator that analyst are using to predict a Wii decline in the other regions. It's going to happen eventually and most signs point to this year in North America. It's not a bad thing or a negative connotation, rather, it shows how strong the Wii has been going to where demand is just now readily being met in most regions of the country.

How often people play it is irrelevant for this discussion and the fact that the Wii has become a pop culture phoenomenon has played a role in its success. I don't know that you can gauge any sort of an assessment of how future sales are dictated based off those pieces of information/conjecture.

"My 360, however, hasn't made one trip back to it's box in the whole 2 and some change years I've owned it."

Your 360 may not have taken a trip to your box, because you haven't ever gotten it for a long enough period of time because of repair issues like the RROD.

Now before you say anything, i also have a 360 and have had it for a while with no issues. I just fought it would be a good RROD joke.

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