DonFerrari on 20 December 2014
benji232 said:
DonFerrari said:
benji232 said:
SocialistSlayer said:
its worth pointing out that many nintendo fans, didnt even believe nintendos forcast and claimed the wiiu would easily clear 10 million this year, even 12 million.
well it looks like nintendo didnt low ball its estimates, and actually again overestimated (as they do every year it seems).
it appears the wiiu wont even sell 9 million by the end of the year, let alone 10.
and it looks like it doesnt have a chance to even come close to matching the gamecubes sales. ive been saying all along it would beat it, but its going to sell significantly less than what i even thought, less than 15 million is a real likely possiblility.
it wont come close to the pipe dream that many nintendo fans still hold on to of 30-50million (which was a laughable estimate 12 months ago, and just crazy now that many still hold on to that estimate) |
Actually, they are right on track to hit their target (if not beat it by a small margin). Last year, they shipped 1.99m consoles in Q3. This year, we can expect a 10-20% increase in shipments yoy. So that would put Q3 shipments at 2.3-2.4m. They already shipped 1.1m lol... You really believe that Nintendo won't be able to ship 100-250k consoles in Q4?
I do agree with you that wiiU LT sales are going to end up under 15m though (it's in my sig).
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Why are you expecting raise in Shipments when YOY there haven't been much increase in sales???
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Actually, there has been a raise in sales YoY in Europe and US. The only place that is down is Japan. Also, I do believe that Nintendo pointed out that BF week was their biggest week ever for WiiU sales. I think that their going to somewhat maintain that momentum going into December and probably see a sales boost of 20-30% YoY in december's NPD and in Europe.
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Since we don't know how much of previous quarter shipment were still on shelves we can't for sure forecast better shipments in q3 going by better sales. But I do hope Ninty beats it with room.
