Some Wii U vs Wii launch comparisons (Sales)

[Aielyn]

OK, VGChartz's front page information on Wii U sales in Europe were wrong, it turns out (EDIT: It seems to have since been updated, apparently Wii and Wii U numbers were switched by mistake). In fact, it was out by about 100,000. If you look at the European chart page, it has an updated number. So let's do a better comparison...

Wii U: 178,615 units (2 days)
Wii: 321,565 units (2 days)
360: 231,802 units (9 days? Released on Dec 2, but no sales for week ending Dec 3, only for Dec 10)

So while the Wii U didn't sell as many as the Wii did, the numbers are much more reasonable, and seem like a reasonable balance when compared with US sales (factoring in that US sales are for a full week, while EU sales are for two days).

So let's see what comparisons we can make for Europe...

New Super Mario Bros U vs Twilight Princess (Big franchise Nintendo IP battle)

NSMB U: 90,507 copies
Twilight Princess: 201,810 copies

While NSMB U has sold significantly fewer, like in the US, the cause is different. If one considers the attach rates involved, here's what we get... NSMB U (68% in US, 51% in EU) vs Twilight Princess (89% in US, 63% in EU). The significant thing here is that, whereas there's a massively high attach rate for TP in the US, the NSMB U and TP attach ratios in Europe are far more similar, in the vicinity of 50%.

ZombiU vs Red Steel (Third-party new IP from Ubisoft that shows promise)

... unfortunately, this comparison can't be made, because VGChartz's data for Red Steel in Europe prior to 2011 has been lost, and I can't find any other source. If someone can find information on EU Red Steel week 1 sales, I'd be appreciative. But just to note it down and discuss relative to US...

ZombiU: 52,922 copies

While it hasn't sold as well in Europe as in America, it has done better with regards to attach rate. Also interesting is the observation that UK and Germany constitute less than half of total EU sales of the game.

Still waiting on complete information for further comparisons. A CoD comparison would be nice. We can do a bit of minor comparison by looking at recent sales numbers in Europe for titles in the vicinity of BO2. So here's what we can see...

Call of Duty 3: 17,659 copies

X-Com PC (two above BO2 WiiU) sold 7,029 in previous week (slight downwards trend)
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Vita (immediately above BO2 WiiU) sold 17,339 in previous week (first week)
Borderlands 2 PS3 (immediately below BO2 WiiU) sold 11,864 in previous week (downwards trend)
NBA 2K13 PS3 (two below BO2 WiiU) sold 8,044 in previous week (upwards trend)
Borderlands 2 360 (three below BO2 WiiU) sold 11,615 in previous week (downwards trend)

Based on numbers available, it looks like Black Ops 2 has sold about 10,000 or so copies, so it's underperforming compared with CoD3 at Wii launch in Europe. This may be due to lower Wii U system sales, as the attach rates would be similar.