That title really shouldn’t be a surprise since, as gamers, we know the power that the Nintendo Wii can wield over consumers. We also know the power Wii Fit had over consumers as well. The motion-fitness game that retails for a round $90 and comes with a Wii Balance Board is expected to outpace the gritty and violent Rockstar hit, Grand Theft Auto IV, which retails around $60. But what both WedBush Morgan gaming analyst Michael Pachter and GigaOM are predicting isn’t money, it’s absolute units. Currently, 10.6 million GTA IV copies have been sold to Wii Fit’s 8.7 million.
Out of 12 million Nintendo Wiis out there, around 30 percent of the system’s owners have purchased Wii Fit and we are just getting into the beginning of the holiday season. Currently, the exercise tool has been selling around 225,000 units each week despite, as Engadget points out, hardware shortages.
Of course, the fitness board will have other uses such as Shaun White Snowboarding, more fitness games, skateboarding games and, dare we say, dancing!?
But what about GTA IV? The PC version hasn’t come out yet (it launches November 18, 2008) so there’s still some install numbers there. At this point, who really doesn’t have the game that wants it other the PC crowd? Despite being the first GTA game with true online play, when’s the last time you heard anyone talk about going online with the game? But there’s also the Xbox 360 exclusive content that supposedly will be release soonish, maybe that could revitalize sales too.
No matter who ends up winning out this year, its going to be an interesting race to the finish.
Bob is upset. He just spent 5 years creating a game to be played on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo won’t sell him what he needs to actually market the game. So what is he doing? Sitting in his basement for 100 days to protest…
That title really shouldn’t be a surprise since, as gamers, we know the power that the Nintendo Wii can wield over consumers. We also know the power Wii Fit had over consumers as well. The motion-fitness game that retails for a round $90 and comes with a Wii Balance Board is expected to outpace the gritty and violent Rockstar hit, Grand Theft Auto IV, which retails around $60. But what both WedBush Morgan gaming analyst Michael Pachter and GigaOM are predicting isn’t money, it’s absolute units. Currently, 10.6 million GTA IV copies have been sold to Wii Fit’s 8.7 million.
Out of 12 million Nintendo Wiis out there, around 30 percent of the system’s owners have purchased Wii Fit and we are just getting into the beginning of the holiday season. Currently, the exercise tool has been selling around 225,000 units each week despite, as Engadget points out, hardware shortages.
Of course, the fitness board will have other uses such as Shaun White Snowboarding, more fitness games, skateboarding games and, dare we say, dancing!?
But what about GTA IV? The PC version hasn’t come out yet (it launches November 18, 2008) so there’s still some install numbers there. At this point, who really doesn’t have the game that wants it other the PC crowd? Despite being the first GTA game with true online play, when’s the last time you heard anyone talk about going online with the game? But there’s also the Xbox 360 exclusive content that supposedly will be release soonish, maybe that could revitalize sales too.
No matter who ends up winning out this year, its going to be an interesting race to the finish.
Read [GigaOM] Via [Engadget]
Image courtesy of GigaOM.
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