pezus said:
Conegamer said:
pezus said:
It's just that people were saying the demand would mostly come from Germany+France.
Regarding USA Wii U sales this week: Why did they go down so much? Have they not shipped more units? They must really be struggling with shipping if it goes down that much in USA + sells only 50% of Wii's FW in Europe.
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I don't recall people saying this. I was also under the illusion (think I read somewhere, will look for a source) that the WiiU had an initial shipment in Europe of 200k. As such, it's nearly a 90% sell-through so that's the reason for that. Though I don't believe that's true, and would expect closer to 250k for the shipment.
As for the US? Everything went down very sharply. Remember the first week had its launch AND Black Friday, so sales were always like to hit around 150k (which was my US prediction and 350k WW for the week, next week will be around 550k WW I reckon). I do believe supply is still a factor, but not so big. It just seems the demand isn't there, but that's advertising. I had an hour free so went to the main GAME store in my local town (one of the biggest cities in the UK). Numerous people came in, and 8 went over to try out the WiiU. Most of them had never heard of the device but really enjoyed the demo, and 5 of them left with the system. A 6th attempted to but at this point they were sold out, but with a new shipment coming Monday/Early next week, and so I left as well.
So the system is selling, when people know what it is. It's the advertising which is lacking. You know, all of those people (pretty much) wished to know what is was, and the only one who did know thought it was a new controller for the Wii, and you could play Wii games and Wii games only on the screen.
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I had a pretty long convo with CCFanboy about it.
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Oh, well...fair enough. Just thought I'd throw my experience into the ring as well, take from that what you will.
As I said, the holiday season is not traditional sales-wise so judging a system on it is not wise (the same applies for all console, especially the Vita).
