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Hardware shortages blamed for Wii’s underwhelming December

January 18th, 2009 by Chris Greenhough

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Let’s make this clear: Wii sold a helluva lot of units in North America during December. 2.15 million consoles in a single month is a number Sony and Microsoft can only dream about right now, but there’s no doubt that the figures weren’t as grand as expected. He who is Pachter predicted the console would clear the 3 million mark, only for the platform to fall short by 850,000 units.

Why the lower-than-expected sales? As usual, analysts reckon they have the answer: more of those accursed hardware shortages. EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich and Deutsche Bank analyst Jeetil Patel both believe demand outweighed supply for the third December running, with Divnich stating the Wii would have sold “north of 4 million units” if more consoles had been produced in time.

Phew, panic over! Wii’s not the next N-Gage or anything!

[Via Joystiq]

Hardware shortages blamed for Wii’s underwhelming December originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wii Warm Up: Procrastinators, unite!

December 24th, 2008 by David Hinkle

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With this being Christmas Eve and all, it’s the last shopping day before Santa comes shuffling down that chimney. So, do you have to pick up any last-minute gifts? If not, did you pick up any gaming gifts this year? Wii stuff? If the particular individual reads us and knows your account name, then, uh, lie.

Wii Warm Up: Procrastinators, unite! originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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