Over 10 Million MotionPlus Sales In 2009 According To Analysts

Two of the worlds leading games analysts have been looking deep into their crystal balls again to predict sales of Wii MotionPlus.

Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan, believes “around 20 percent of Wii owners in the US and Europe will have bought Wii Sports Resort, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 or EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis, so that’s around eight million” as those games come bundled with the wiimote peripheral.

“I think another two million will buy MotionPlus with new consoles. I expect MotionPlus to be a sneaky success (like Wii Fit), and ultimately attach to at least one third of the [Wii's] installed base” Pachter concluded.

Jesse Divnich from EEDAR however was a little less optimistic with his future sales predictions. Hit the jump to find out what they were. “At this time, we do know that pre-orders are relatively strong, compared to other Wii products. By the end of the holidays, the Wii MotionPlus install base in North America and Europe should be well over three million. Of course, our forecast could be conservative… Yearly sales could balloon much higher. For the Wii MotionPlus, we currently expect the install base to reach over 11 million units by the end of Nintendo’s next fiscal year in March 2011, a 15 percent penetration.”

Interesting stuff, I’m sure Wii MotionPlus will be a massive hit initially and maybe even slowly gain sales momentum as more and more people play it.

Source: Edge