NPD not counting "Mom & Pops"; Wii shipped "well above" NPD's #... says Perrin Kaplan
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Justin Bailey
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So how long before IGN runs this story?
Awesomated
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That's cute.
Mithos Yggdrasill
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Yeah, perhaps this could be a possibility. And I say this only for a motivation: I have searched about Patcher. He's one of the most respected analysts in his domaine and I found strange that he's done a mistake of 100-120%. It is possible that the Wii has been sold where a gaming system usually don't.
I repeat: if Patcher would not have said that this difference is unexplicable, I would have said:" Nintendo, stop say bullshits. This is what you sold. Nothing more. Nothing less".
And the same about PS2's Software: way too low. Sorry, but there is something wrong.
I repeat: if Patcher would not have said that this difference is unexplicable, I would have said:" Nintendo, stop say bullshits. This is what you sold. Nothing more. Nothing less".
And the same about PS2's Software: way too low. Sorry, but there is something wrong.
Awesomated
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I don't know what I'm saying. I never know what I'm saying.
Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
It is real. FOXnews.com has it...sonycowboy said:
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,243300,00.html
What i don't understnad is that the shipped number for the NA market versus what NPD says thee Wii LTD is in NA don't match up. Where are all the other consoles? Not saying Kaplin is right. Someone should find out if Nintendo puts in the the "lost" wii consoles into their finance books as sold.
gamergirly
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jehuty said:
Shipped and sold isnt the same thing. With that said, there were definitely more Wiis sold than NPD has "projected" based upon "sampling", but not enough to make a massive difference. Nintendo simply didnt ship what they said they would despite the fact that every Wii going into stores is being bought up. So, these "late" numbers are Janurary's NPD story instead
professor_t
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Bullshit Kaplan.
As an importer I've dealt with loads of indie retailers and the story is always the same.
Nintendo never supply them with any hardware at launch. They send it ALL to the big chains, simply because they know it gets NPD tracked and it keeps their biggest resellers happy. Tronix even stopped selling consoles because they can never get them and they get treated like shit.
If anything this just cements Nintendo's failure even further because the non-tracked indies were certainly selling PS2's and 360's during December.
As an importer I've dealt with loads of indie retailers and the story is always the same.
Nintendo never supply them with any hardware at launch. They send it ALL to the big chains, simply because they know it gets NPD tracked and it keeps their biggest resellers happy. Tronix even stopped selling consoles because they can never get them and they get treated like shit.
If anything this just cements Nintendo's failure even further because the non-tracked indies were certainly selling PS2's and 360's during December.
TheKingsCrown
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Haven't heard that one in a whileBurai said:
Doom_Bringer
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gamecube hut :lol
ahahahaa
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flarkminator
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had to be done
soul creator
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Mithos Yggdrasill said:
I have to admit, I always look forward to a Mithos Yggdrasill reply
Greenpanda
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Amazing thread.
Joe Molotov
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Gahiggidy said:
If that were true, wouldn't it be an Aunt & Uncle store? Face it, I've seen through your lies.
FirstInHell
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sphinx said:
Mon n Pop stores are privately held storefronts. They are the places that Nintendo shipped the other 900,000 Wiis to :lol
It seems that people who had high hopes for the Wii are having a lot of trouble coping with the data. The Walmart defense doesn't work anymore, so it necessitated the creation of the Mom N Pop defense. Classic.
This makes no sense. Why would anyone expect the NPD to track systems in transit when they track sales to the customer?
Larry Bird
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:lol CLASSIC!
platypotamus
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vitaflo said:
Definitely the 30k. That's one hell of a mom and pop.
TemplaerDude
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Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 30k Wii within minutes of opening.
(Today, 10:10 AM)
what an awesome tag.
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 30k Wii within minutes of opening.
(Today, 10:10 AM)
what an awesome tag.
Apparently a 2/3 sampling doesn't represent the final whole. What's new? And wouldn't everyone's numbers go up by about the same percentages? i don't see how this helps/hurts nintendo any more than anyone else. The NPD is a sampling anyways...it's never been the total definitive numbers.
gutter_trash
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it's region free Perrin Kaplin
Nintendo does ship units to mom 'n pop stores, but that's not causing any issues. There's a small store I went to called "Game Stop" ironically enough. No, it's not a real GameStop, we don't even have those in Canada. But they had 1 Wii (on hold for someone) and 5 PS3s in stock.
Anyway, 1.1 million as reported by NPD. Canada probably sold through 15% of that so another 165,000. Then there's Mexico. I'd say 1.275 million. Another 225k or so in transit = 1.5 million. And iirc, Nintendo wouldn't commit to 2 million to NA.
Anyway, 1.1 million as reported by NPD. Canada probably sold through 15% of that so another 165,000. Then there's Mexico. I'd say 1.275 million. Another 225k or so in transit = 1.5 million. And iirc, Nintendo wouldn't commit to 2 million to NA.
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Gahiggidy said:
Your aunt and uncle are obviously entrepreneur superstars.
Burai said:
As far as I've been told, Nintendo assigns hardware numbers corresponding to total Nintendo product overturn, software side only Nintendo made games are counted. And then at launch, bam, you have only little overturn from last year and big chains get all the hardware. Happened to my little indie store here upon European Wii launch.
Let's say he was a tad pissed since Wii sold excellent numbers. Just not for him cause he didn't get any.
davepoobond
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hilarious. they sent a million wiis to places that aren't on the map...i guess Nintendo really went off the deep end with this one thinking that would be a good idea.
Pristine_Condition
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Yeah. "Mom and Pops," that makes total sense. 900,000 units. It's like, everytime I go to the Flea Market, there's all these people there hawking stacks and stacks of Wiis.
I went out to the country to do a little fishing, and the guy at the bait store tried to sell me a freakin' Wii. All I wanted was a tub of worms and a six pack of Natty Light, and this dude had to demo the waggle for me.
Forget about antiquing with the girlfriend...
Double bitter, because of all the cocaine, I'd bet.
...at least that's what I'm guessing. Last time a woman told me a story this outrageous, she was all coked up, telling me "I only dance here to pay for college."
I'd guess she had a $300-a-day textbook habit.
I went out to the country to do a little fishing, and the guy at the bait store tried to sell me a freakin' Wii. All I wanted was a tub of worms and a six pack of Natty Light, and this dude had to demo the waggle for me.
Forget about antiquing with the girlfriend...
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Double bitter, because of all the cocaine, I'd bet.
...at least that's what I'm guessing. Last time a woman told me a story this outrageous, she was all coked up, telling me "I only dance here to pay for college."
I'd guess she had a $300-a-day textbook habit.