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TheLastStarFighter on 02 January 2013
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TeddostheFireKing 37 minutes ago
kitler53 said:
TheLastStarFighter said:

To the degree you are saying, yes. You are saying that less than 1% of Wii buyers are interested in WiiU. 1%! Do you realise how rediculous that is? I'm blown away buy it. If you want to bash WiiU interest level, say it's about 50% of what Wii was. Go extreme even, say Nintendo would be lucky to get 10% of the interest level. But 1%? That's so over-the-top I can't take you seriously. And there are games Euros want, NSMBWii sold 700,000 copies this year alone. Millions of Euros will buy a WiiU and they will buy NSMBU. What happens after that, I don't know but there is without a shadow of a doubt more than 340k people that will do that. You may not hang out with them, but they are definitely alive and willing to buy a WiiU when they can get one.


you put far too much faith in your "1%" calc. check out the first 6 weeks of ps3 sales in europe and you'll see an even smaller percentage. wrong price, wrong games, no interest. past success does not ensure future success.

Thank you Kitler, I really don't know how much simpler to make that argument.

Perhaps another argument Starfighter, there are many Nintendo fans on this site, correct? Yet you seem to be the only one even attempting to argue its supply constrained in Europe, doesn't that strike you as even slightly odd?

 

@Ted. Some points. I'm not really a fan of Nintendo. I'm just a fan of video games and enjoy talking about them and business in general. I actually have seen Nintendo fans saying it's supply constrained. The only people saying it's not are, in general Sony fans. It truth it doesn't really matter to me what fans of either side say because fans by nature have a clouded opinion on things. Further, everyone on the entire site could disagree with me and it wouldn't change my opinion unless they were making valid business arguments. My professional background and every piece of public information we have about the WiiU's shipment schedule says they are selling everything they planned to make at this stage. Data is way more reliable than opinion, and you or anyone else haven't provided data to suggest that WiiU isn't selling any different than Nintendo's projections.