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Mazty on 16 March 2013
the_dengle said:

Mazty said:


do you think the Wii U will recover in time for the release of next-gen competition? 

Note: no need to point out other weeks.

 

How I read this: "Do you think the Wii U will recover from these sales? Note: By all means do not talk about the Wii U's recent recovery from these sales."


No need to point out other weeks to dismiss the graph, which users were, and are, doing. One "good" week doesn't make a record low dissappear. 



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Train wreck on 16 March 2013
cbarroso09 said:
Wii U is doing bad right now, no new games no more consoles sold. But If people say they want a cheaper Wii U, imagine other next gen consoles. This will be a tren with any system. That is why I am not that worry. Firts, Nintendo has the games, second, it will be the cheapest.
By the way, Nintendo stock rises faster than Sony. Don't talk only about Sony, go and check thst about Nintendo.

 

?  if you choose anytime time frame up to 5 years, sony is still outperforming



NintendoPie on 16 March 2013
Mazty said:

"All consoles do have rocky launches"

No they fucking don't and that graph proves it. The 3DS is a handheld, not a console, so it's a different market.

Totally dismissing the 3DS and Vita's launch as something not pertaining to the topic at hand will only hurt you.

Yes, they are handhelds. But that doesn't mean they won't reflect the gaming market as a whole.



AbbathTheGrim on 16 March 2013
Max King of the Wild said:
NintendoPie said:
Max King of the Wild said:
NintendoPie said:
It's only a little below the Wii's weakest week? I'll try to take that as a good thing...



A little below after Nintendo started letting it die though.

This means the Wii U can only go up. *Reassures self*

no argument from me there


Actually it could sell less.



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

Otakumegane on 16 March 2013

I wouldn't be surprised if someone just made a counterthread called "Vita sales in NA dismal"

Such is console wars.



http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/92109/nintendopie/ Nintendopie  Was obviously right and I was obviously wrong. I will forever be a lesser being than them. (6/16/13)

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NintendoPie on 16 March 2013
Otakumegane said:
I wouldn't be surprised if someone just made a counterthread called "Vita sales in NA dismal"

Such is console wars.

If anything, this thread is a counter thread to all those "Vita sales on Earth dismal" threads. (I don't think it is, I'm just saying that we've already had many of those.)



the_dengle on 16 March 2013
Mazty said:

"All consoles do have rocky launches"

No they fucking don't and that graph proves it. The 3DS is a handheld, not a console, so it's a different market.

If you have redefined the meaning of "rocky launch" to the point that the PS3's does not fit your definition, you have done something wrong.

You're cherrypicking definitions and numbers to tell yourself that the Wii U's launch was worse than the PS3's. Oh, it took less time to reach a weekly low point lower than the PS3's. That's nice. It doesn't change the fact that the Wii U has sold more consoles LTD than the PS3 had in the same period. You know, how normal people measure launch sales: with actual cumulative sales, not with weekly averages of an arbitrary mid-launch-period set of weeks.

Wii U LTD in the US after 15 weeks: ~1,063,000
PS3 LTD in the US after 15 weeks: 975,622

I know those first two weeks the PS3 had are troublesome for some people. Let's give it 17, then: 1,028,680

Not to mention Japan, since you're focusing solely on NA here. *Gee, I wonder why that could be...*

Wii U LTD in Japan after 13 weeks: 806,691
PS3 LTD in Japan after 13 weeks: 637,595



Otakumegane on 16 March 2013
NintendoPie said:
Otakumegane said:
I wouldn't be surprised if someone just made a counterthread called "Vita sales in NA dismal"

Such is console wars.

If anything, this thread is a counter thread to all those "Vita sales on Earth dismal" threads. (I don't think it is, I'm just saying that we've already had many of those.)


Fair Enough.



http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/92109/nintendopie/ Nintendopie  Was obviously right and I was obviously wrong. I will forever be a lesser being than them. (6/16/13)

Rafux on 16 March 2013

The bigger problem is that I don't think people want a Wii U, the gimmick didn't work, casuals have left the building, no third party and next gen consoles are coming in 7 months.



NintendoPie on 16 March 2013
Rafux said:
The bigger problem is that I don't think people want a Wii U, the gimmick didn't work, casuals have left the building, no third party and next gen consoles are coming in 7 months.

"Casuals have left the building"?

Please tell me you are not completely serious about that?