GameStop says consumers have reserved 1.2 million Wii U titles, or double the number of Wii games in 2006! Gamasutra says 2.4 games per console reservation......

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Viper1 said:

JEMC said:

Viper1 said:

JEMC said:

I wonder how many of those reserves are for NintendoLand, for those who couldn't preorder the Premium console.

Anyway, very nice numbers, (although they are still far from the numbers Iwata want, those 4.4 games per console)

Those are shipment figures Iwata is talking about, not consumer sales figures.

I know, but if retailers don't see a high enough demand they won't ask for more shipments and, to be honest, it will be very hard to reach those numbers.

I think those numbers are a best case scenario rather than what they think will happen.

They'll come close enough that retailers will continue ordering.

You also have to consider that a launch will have the absolute lowest softare to hardware sales ratio a console will ever see.   it only grows from then on.

Not for the PSP In Japan the software:hardware ration even dropped below 1 for some time after the launch of the PSP 2000. But yeah, generally you're right.