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Amazing thing it is to have content available. Where would iPod be without iTunes? Dead years ago.

By the end of this year, WiiU will be selling fine and around 10m sold. More than PS360's first year.



superchunk said:
Amazing thing it is to have content available. Where would iPod be without iTunes? Dead years ago.

By the end of this year, WiiU will be selling fine and around 10m sold. More than PS360's first year.

You contradict your statement by saying year end then first year. Wii U will not be anywhere close to 10mil at it's 1st year aniversary. And the Ps3 had over 10mil shipped at the end of 2007. The Wii U shipped 3.02m so far and since that figure was released has significantly dropped behind the Ps3's numbers... So unless you are expecting an unprecedent 4th quarter comeback for any system then the Wii U will fall short of 10mil sold. It will probably be under Ps3's numbers of about 9mil in my opinion.



Max King of the Wild said:
Mandalore76 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
under 60k isnt anemic. thats still terrible as well as you are over looking the price cuts and the following sales drop

That explains why people are celebrating Vita selling even less than that in a week after price cuts despite being on the market for well over a year.

1 this thread isnt about vita

2 the vita sold 82k which is more than 60k

3 vitas price drop was in the smallest market

4 the vitas sales are still terrible

5 reported for off  topic trolling

It's a comparison of struggling hardware from the same generation (despite one being console and the other handheld), so it's relevant in my opinion.  Also, Vita's price drop was an official Sony price drop, not a couple of retailers who may have had a Wii U sale.  And, what you refer to as Vita's price drop being in the smallest market happens to be Vita's largest market.  Your reaction, by the way, tells me point hit home.



Max King of the Wild said:
superchunk said:
Amazing thing it is to have content available. Where would iPod be without iTunes? Dead years ago.

By the end of this year, WiiU will be selling fine and around 10m sold. More than PS360's first year.

You contradict your statement by saying year end then first year. Wii U will not be anywhere close to 10mil at it's 1st year aniversary. And the Ps3 had over 10mil shipped at the end of 2007. The Wii U shipped 3.02m so far and since that figure was released has significantly dropped behind the Ps3's numbers... So unless you are expecting an unprecedent 4th quarter comeback for any system then the Wii U will fall short of 10mil sold. It will probably be under Ps3's numbers of about 9mil in my opinion.

Since they launched mid-November... I kinda just round off and call it all the "first year".

WiiU is already close or above PS360 at this time in its life. (see my other thread)

It has many games coming between now and end of year... many we don't even know of yet.

PS360 only got around 7m out the door between their Nov launches and the end of the next full year.

WiiU will beat that and be around 10m.



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Mandalore76 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Mandalore76 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
under 60k isnt anemic. thats still terrible as well as you are over looking the price cuts and the following sales drop

That explains why people are celebrating Vita selling even less than that in a week after price cuts despite being on the market for well over a year.

1 this thread isnt about vita

2 the vita sold 82k which is more than 60k

3 vitas price drop was in the smallest market

4 the vitas sales are still terrible

5 reported for off  topic trolling

It's a comparison of struggling hardware from the same generation (despite one being console and the other handheld), so it's relevant in my opinion.  Also, Vita's price drop was an official Sony price drop, not a couple of retailers who may have had a Wii U sale.  And, what you refer to as Vita's price drop being in the smallest market happens to be Vita's largest market.  Your reaction, by the way, tells me point hit home.



Get a new "hit home" detector because I oviously called vita sales terrible and don't have any plans to own one.



Pikmin 3, Game & Wario, Wii Fit U, Wonderful 101, Injustice, Revelations should all release between April and July so that should help keep the momentum going, then i predict a $50 price cut alongside Wind Waker in Aug/Sept after that you have 3D Mario/Mario Kart in Nov/Dec so things will pick up and im guessing there will be about 10 million Wii Us sold by the end of the year



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Max King of the Wild said:

1 this thread isnt about vita

2 the vita sold 82k which is more than 60k

3 vitas price drop was in the smallest market

4 the vitas sales are still terrible

5 reported for off  topic trolling

The price-cut happened in Japan, right? How is that hardly the smallest market?



NintendoPie said:
Max King of the Wild said:

1 this thread isnt about vita

2 the vita sold 82k which is more than 60k

3 vitas price drop was in the smallest market

4 the vitas sales are still terrible

5 reported for off  topic trolling

The price-cut happened in Japan, right? How is that hardly the smallest market?

According to the front page, there were 1.4 million Vita's sold in each market. Vita came out earlier in Japan, had a price cut there. It wouldn't be too difficult to figure out that if you align launches and take the price cut effect into account, Vita's smallest market is Japan by a significant margin. Isn't that the case with the PSP as well?

Edit: Well I checked that out and apparently PSP's biggest market is Europe, followed by Japan. Japan sales are only marginally bigger than US though, US was probably ahead a few weeks ago.