The Shrine

For anyone else who is interested: an update on sales info in regards to Nintendo. Plus a bit of a sales history.

Wii Fit: Not only has Wii Fit been shown to have a long shelf life, but NPD data is actually showing that Wii Fit sales are generally trending upwards. This may be a supply thing.

When I say Goldeneye effect, I mean that sales trend upwards rather than downwards for a portion of time. This happened with Goldeneye 007, it began with fairly good sales, but saw higher sales as time went forward.

Sales Records:

Wii Fit's sales may be a supply thing, or it may have something to do with Wii breaking sales records again (This is the third time the non-holiday monthly hardware sales record bar has been set higher this year. Twice with Wii and once with the DS). It currently sits at 803,000 units. Before this year, the previous record sat at 690,000 from the PS2 in June 2002; far higher than anything else until 2008 (540K was the next highest sales). It was broken by the Wii March 2008 with 721,000 sold, DS in June with 783,000 sold, and Wii in October with 803,000.


It will be interesting to see how the Holiday Shopping season shapes up, I think there may be a Wii shortage by the beginning of December, so now might be a good time to scoop some up to make a few bucks on Ebay.

I think last year and year before was the time to make coin on the system. Sure it's still being scooped up but I don't the craze is there like it was in the past. I've noticed they last a bit longer now, we're seeing used ones a lot more often, and there's not as many phone calls as there used to be. Could be they have NOTHING this Xmas....

Speaking of the Xmas lineup, the 360's got almost as good a one this year as last year. Surprisingly considering how strong last years' was. The other systems on the other hand don't have too much AAA titles (I'm looking at exclusives as the differentiators so Fallout 3 doesn't really count right now). Sure Resistance 2 and LBP on the PS3 but Wii has nothing and the DS has a bunch of solid titles (it always does) but nothing that can't wait a bit. My opinion anyways and maybe I'm just used to the DS having something solid come out at all times, it has for years. Every month there's a really good game or two at least, kinda like the 360 right now.

Wii Fit maybe the better bet to make a buck as it's still in insanely short supply but I would be willing to be the system won't go for too much above cost. And for us Canadians, the taxes and FX rate will kill a lot of the extra profit we may make on Ebay.

I think we all know why Wii Fit is so popular.

Heh, the original Wii Fit girl in panties =)

Yoga Demonstration


I like the rythym boxing, strength and balance games myself.