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scottie on 03 December 2012
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pezus said:
scottie said:
C-M-D said:
Yikes! That's significantly worse than the Vita's launch numbers. (64k)


1) That was 4 days for Vita vs 2 for Wii U

2) Vita then dropped to 17k the next (full) week. If Wii U has stock available, it will be well ahead of 17k

3) UK as a basis for comparison will always help Sony consoles over Nintendo ones.

2) Well I would hope it doesn't drop much because of the holidays. Vita launched early this year and had no holiday sales to help it.

3) Why is that? 


2) This is true, but not really relevant is it.

 

3) Because Sony consoles always do quite well in the UK compared to how they do in the rest of the world, and Nintendo consoles always do quite poorly in the UK compared to the rest of the world.

 

Anyway, I'm out of this thread because speculation at this point is useless. Nintendo shipped a few tens of thousands, and sold a few tens of thousands. Whether each of us believes that Nintendo shipped that low number because they were anticipating low demand, or if it was because they weren't able to ship lots of consoles for the UK launch without causing serious supply constraints in USA/Japan (or delaying the UK launch), is entirely going to be decided by whether you own a Wii, or a PS360, and not be rational analysis of the few facts we have.