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Kerotan on 26 October 2016
tak13 said:
Mummelmann said:
Still waiting for the prophecy of the Wii U's comeback in Japan to come true, I'm starting to think that it might not happen after all.

It happened with splatoon and super mario maker last year, leading to wii u stock problems in 2016 *, that Nintendo wasn't fixing and killed the momentum! Then they annnounced NX release date!  So for whoever is that irony mummely, is unfair and needless! Could you predict this situation in 2015, while in the meantime wii u was having a 105k selling week in december?

Nintendo didn't expect those impressive sales of wii u on holidays last year ( it must have sold x2 of what they were anticipating ) , they had to constrain the supply in 2016  ( since the inventory  probably was about to deplete and Nintendo didn't want to produce many wii u units ) and for some time, there was almost no wii u stock...

Wii u made a  real comeback in 2015, since it sold as much as it sold in 2013 ( nearly 1m ) , and that with  expensive/overpriced bundles unlike in 2013!

When Wii U was selling that well last holiday I still predicted ps4 would beat it this year.  most people doubted me.  That's why I'm the greatest predictor since Michael J. Patcher.



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tbone51 on 26 October 2016
Kerotan said:
tak13 said:

It happened with splatoon and super mario maker last year, leading to wii u stock problems in 2016 *, that Nintendo wasn't fixing and killed the momentum! Then they annnounced NX release date!  So for whoever is that irony mummely, is unfair and needless! Could you predict this situation in 2015, while in the meantime wii u was having a 105k selling week in december?

Nintendo didn't expect those impressive sales of wii u on holidays last year ( it must have sold x2 of what they were anticipating ) , they had to constrain the supply in 2016  ( since the inventory  probably was about to deplete and Nintendo didn't want to produce many wii u units ) and for some time, there was almost no wii u stock...

Wii u made a  real comeback in 2015, since it sold as much as it sold in 2013 ( nearly 1m ) , and that with  expensive/overpriced bundles unlike in 2013!

When Wii U was selling that well last holiday I still predicted ps4 would beat it this year.  most people doubted me.  That's why I'm the greatest predictor since Michael J. Patcher.

What does "Most" mean in your language?



Farsala on 26 October 2016

PS4 LTD?

Seems good for October, hopefully FFXV can boost the holidays to yet unreached heights.



Kresnik on 26 October 2016
Dr.Vita said:

6M seems like a given at the moment imo. 6.5M is the goal we should look for.
If PS Vita managed to do 7M at the end then that would be awesome and I would be very happy. 7M seems very difficult but it's still a possible scenario imo.

It's currently at 5.2m, given a good holiday I reckon it could get another 200k or so for the rest of the year, 300k at the most, for a total sales of about 5.5m.

500k until the console is discontinued seems doable, but not much more than that.  I'm expecting sales to decrease a LOT next year as it won't be sustaining a steady 10k p/w.  In addition, there aren't really any 'big' games announced for 2017 yet outside of Super Robot Wars and SAO, neither of which I think will move much hardware.

So I'm thinking more than 6m, but not much more.  Would love to be wrong on that though.



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tak13 on 26 October 2016
Farsala said:
PS4 LTD?

Seems good for October, hopefully FFXV can boost the holidays to yet unreached heights.

3.4m on Media create! As for the last, you should start following comg pre-orders thread...



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Farsala on 26 October 2016
tak13 said:
Farsala said:
PS4 LTD?

Seems good for October, hopefully FFXV can boost the holidays to yet unreached heights.

3.4m on Media create! As for the last, you should start following comg pre-orders thread...

Thanks.

Of course I follow it, but COMG doesn't represent all of Japan as can be seen with the good BF1 sales. Especially if there is a bundle that is exclusive to other retailers.



Jranation on 26 October 2016
zehh25 said:
Never thought I'd say that, but it is happening: XOne outselling 3DS and 3DS LL combined in Japan

 

Nintendo done a great job releasing the New 3DSs!

And lately the 2DS is giving it a lot of boost! 



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Kerotan on 26 October 2016

D to the double P.



Kerotan on 26 October 2016
tbone51 said:
Kerotan said:

When Wii U was selling that well last holiday I still predicted ps4 would beat it this year.  most people doubted me.  That's why I'm the greatest predictor since Michael J. Patcher.

What does "Most" mean in your language?

 

Most in my language means the majority of people who shared an opinion on my prediction.  

 

What does most mean in your language? 



Tbone on 26 October 2016

Its so sad that a game like Battlefield 1 sells 3 times more than Blazblue and Guilty gear. What are the japan folks doing????