Aielyn said:
They're not nearly as bad as they look, really. If you look at Europe's launches from last gen, you'll see that they typically drop off strongly after the first week, meaning the Wii U is actually holding a bit better. More importantly, the Wii U is ahead of the 360 at its launch, and if you look at "first holiday" sales, the Wii U actually does have the chance to perform quite closely to the Wii, if it has a strong last few days leading up to Christmas, which is relatively likely at the moment. To the 23rd of December 2006, the Wii had sold a little under 600,000 units in Europe. The Wii U is currently at around 340,000. The 360 was at about 400,000 to 24th of December 2005. This suggests that the Wii U will be somewhere between the 360 and the Wii in terms of first-holiday sales. I can't compare with PS3, as it launched in March 2007, and thus had plenty of time on shelves prior to the holiday season. Don't forget that Europeans don't have an equivalent to Black Friday prior to Christmas. Mind you, they could certainly be better. But they're not nearly as bad as they look. |
I'd say the Wii U sales in EU is very bleak... 60k in it's third week?? That's no where good.
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