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Welfare on 03 December 2014

In France, the Wii U install base is 450,000 at the end of November.

http://www.challenges.fr/high-tech/20141203.CHA1061/jeux-video-pourquoi-la-wii-u-de-nintendo-est-loin-d-etre-morte-et-enterree.html?xtor=RSS-16

The dynamics of the Wii U is confirmed over the past months, with an increase of 50% compared to the same period last year. The installed base now reached 450,000 units [against 300,000 in late December 2013]. And we should flirt with 550,000 at the end of the year.

VGC has the Wii U at 467,000 as of Nov. 22.

EDIT: Yes, it might not be by that much, but still. Just pointing it out



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

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tbone51 on 03 December 2014

Not that bad with tracking, then again its not like its in the millions. Anywayz hoping for a good Dec



Hedra42 on 03 December 2014

So what? That's about 4% error.



generic-user-1 on 03 December 2014
Welfare said:

In France, the Wii U install base is 450,000 at the end of November.

http://www.challenges.fr/high-tech/20141203.CHA1061/jeux-video-pourquoi-la-wii-u-de-nintendo-est-loin-d-etre-morte-et-enterree.html?xtor=RSS-16

The dynamics of the Wii U is confirmed over the past months, with an increase of 50% compared to the same period last year. The installed base now reached 450,000 units [against 300,000 in late December 2013]. And we should flirt with 550,000 at the end of the year.

VGC has the Wii U at 467,000 as of Nov. 22.

it says nowhere end of november or a date, so it could be well on track



Welfare on 03 December 2014
Hedra42 said:
So what? That's about 4% error.


You would also have to factor in the week VGC hasn't updated yet. With Smash and general holiday boosts, the % of error and number is going to grow farther from the truth. 



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

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Welfare on 03 December 2014
generic-user-1 said:

it says nowhere end of november or a date, so it could be well on track


Why wouldn't the number be at the end of November when the article was posted today?



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

gigaSheik on 03 December 2014

Over tracked where?



fleischr on 03 December 2014

Not worth worrying about.



I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016

generic-user-1 on 03 December 2014
Welfare said:
generic-user-1 said:

it says nowhere end of november or a date, so it could be well on track


Why wouldn't the number be at the end of November when the article was posted today?

round numbers? and i doubt they have the last week, they have to use trackers too.



MepH on 03 December 2014

I made another topic with more infos but it was 2min late; so I'll post information here:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=194437&page=1#

Here some infos from the interview:
Wii U: ~150K YTD, ~450K LTD
Mario Kart 8: ~272K (~200K+~72K Wii U bundles)
Pokemon ORAS: ~191K ("~50% better than last entry in the same number of days)

Last Week: 3DS sales got an increase of 70% due to Pokemon ORAS.

Some estimates from him:
~550K WiiU end of year; ~200K SSBU; ~200K Amiibos


http://www.challenges.fr/high-tech/20141203.CHA1061/jeux-video-pourquoi-la-wii-u-de-nintendo-est-loin-d-etre-morte-et-enterree.html?xtor=RSS-16
Google translate: https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.challenges.fr%2Fhigh-tech%2F20141203.CHA1061%2Fjeux-video-pourquoi-la-wii-u-de-nintendo-est-loin-d-etre-morte-et-enterree.html%3Fxtor%3DRSS-16&edit-text=&act=url

 

VGC DATA For Wii U: 175.1K YTD; 467.9K LTD (also note that there isn't data for 29th on VGC yet)

So hardware was kinda overtracked but that was expected since many consoles are overtracked in France (overall gen8 home+handheld was ~150K+ overtracked from January-September in France). At least MK8 isn't ;)

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From those asking, data from the interview is for sure at the end of november since there's also information since Pokémon ORAS released



Prediction: End of 2015 Hardware sales (as of January 20, 2015)

Wii U: 12.1M | XBO: 19.8M | PS4: 36.0M | 3DS: 58.5M | PSV: 11.7M