Filed under Corporate, Hardware, News, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Rumours & Speculation, Sales, Sony & Microsoft by on Aug 9th, 2010. Comment. 
Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets believes that a ‘Wii 2′ will be released in 2011:
“We note that Nintendo is widely expected to deliver a Wii refresh in 2011, well before Sony and Microsoft come to market with new platforms, although this is unlikely to represent the launch of a new generation. Instead, we expect Microsoft and Sony to leverage their growing online content and services platforms, along with new motion sensing controllers, and to a lesser extent 3D and Internet-enabled televisions, as three pillars for growth over the coming 2-3 years.”
Speaking with MCV, Colin also thinks that big things could be in store for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS:
“3DS could emerge as an E3 winner. Our conversations with industry contacts suggest the Nintendo 3DS is an impressive device, and is garnering support among third party developers.”
Lastly there could be upgrades to Nintendo’s online functionality if this analyst is to be believed:
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Filed under Corporate, Hardware, Interviews, News, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Rumours & Speculation by on Jun 9th, 2010. Comment.
It is clear for all to see that Aprils NPD sales were very low compared to what we are used to. Sales were not only low for one console but for all of them. Micheal Pachter of Wedbush Morgan cannot fathom any answers as to why this is however with there not being many major releases in April maybe he is right in saying people could be holding off for the big releases coming in May.
Similarly people could have been holding off buying a Wii while waiting for the black console release. Who knows, but it will be interersting to see if Mays sales bounce back.
“The April sales results are baffling to us. The dollar sales level of $399 million is the lowest since May 2007, when this generation was barely underway, and is the weakest April result since 2005, when console software sales totaled only $6 billion for the full year. The sequential decline of 54% is the greatest in the 11 years that we have been tracking monthly data (except for December-January declines), dwarfing the previous record of 42% set in March-April 2002. For the first 13 weeks of 2010, video game software sales averaged just under $162 million; for the four weeks of April, they averaged just under $100 million.
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Filed under Corporate, Hardware, Interviews, News, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Rumours & Speculation, Sales, Sony & Microsoft by on May 14th, 2010. Comment.
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