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Even though it has low stock at walmart all the bundles sold out more than 3 times this week(the special $50 mk8 bundle sold out in its first hour)

ebay sold over 4k wii us on black friday(sold 4k in less than 17 mins)

best buy had the mega bundle sold out twice

gamestop has the main wii u bundle in the top 5 for a week(still there)

amazon doesn't have it :p

target its doing pretty well

and all the other amazons have wii u bundles(2 in amazon uk fr and de) in top 100

I think you guys should give the wii u a little more credit

I do predict it will have over 400k for november npd

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I'm predicting about 200k for black friday week in the US alone, combine that with Europe smash bros launch along with deals over there for some stores adopting Black friday and I see it selling over 300k this week, next week should be pretty big as well.



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I think it will do better than 2013 for sure and it deserves every bit of it imo!



                  

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*The mega bundle on best buy has sold out four times not two.:Phehehehe!



I was just doing some analysis on its YoY growth. Let's say it sells 300k in BF week, with a total of 600k for November. Now, following last year numbers, it sold 450k in November and 1.1 million in December; so a growth of 3x month over month. If it follows the same trend as last year, it should sell about 1.8 million in December.

Of course, this is MY speculation, which will clearly be wrong since:

1. Japan is down by a LOT YoY (specially during this time).

2. The Wii U was coming off of a price cut in 2013.

3. Games are releasing this time around, while last year the only game was the underperforming SM3DW.



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What will people think then?



Counting on 300k sells in the week of black friday. I am dying for the numbers.



Supply shortages could be a problem; demand has increased, but after its low sales of the past, stores may have underestimated this and not stocked accordingly.



I think it's undershipped at the moment in the US. Let's hope that it gets an appropriate shipment for chistmas.



tak13 said:
*The mega bundle on best buy has sold out four times not two.:Phehehehe!

that best buy bundle was the best thing gaming-wise you could buy this weekend as far as i'm concerned--all of them are new games, not remakes (gta v/tlou ps4 bundle) or annualized-to-death trash (xbone ac bundle). smash, tropical freeze and 3d world in the same package = winning formula. i think they'll do well. even the fading 3ds xl will do pretty well, and that's with the new 3ds on the horizon.