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Train wreck on 04 January 2013
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Kenology said:
Train wreck said:

Comparing the Wii U launch to the PS360 is funny, can't you nintnedo fans (its the recurring theme for them the last 6 weeks) wait 10 months to make actual, practical, comparsions; next gen to next gen, or is that the only way to make you guys feel better?  

If you look up the analyst and his company online you will see he doesnt cover Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft, so this is projections based for Gamestop.  And Nintendo reports earnings on January 21st so we will get a sense of what they expect then, not march.  And im sure he would not be making these assumptions so early in the new year if he did not have any information or data from gamestop themselves about their Wii U projections, so no, no one is overracting.

Everyone will compare Wii U launch numbers to the new consoles when they come out, obviously.  For now, we have historical data, which is what EVERYONE compares to, not just "Nintendo fans", so just stop!  And Nintendo said it wants to ship 5.5 million by March, not 5.5 million by January 21st.  That's the only expectation that matters here.  And I guess Gamestop is the only retailer that carries Wii U now, according to your thought process, so yes, getting unsubstantiated opinion (which is what it is with no quantitative value) from one analyst based on one retailer and crying doom is overreacting.

And not everyone is so emotionally involved in console sales like you are, so please... stop projecting (like you always do).  In conclusion, I notice you cry a lot in these threads; and like I said to you before, try not to let what "Nintendo fans" say bother you so much.  ;)  Good day!

 

Nintendo has made countless revisions to their hardware and software projection during their earnings periods, that’s what companies do when they feel current sales will not match their expectations.  They can easily change their projection for the March quarter this month, like they did the 3DS in October.  Most Nintendo fans put emphasis on the PS360 comparison because that’s the only one in which the Wii U doesn’t look horrible, the gaming environment in 2005/6 is different from the one today and I expect the next gen PS360 to have substantially higher launch number than the PS360 and Wii U.  

Gamestop is the largest independent videogame retailer so what they say matters a great deal in the videogame world.  They have a report coming out on January 8th about their holiday sales and I’m sure it will shed a lot of light on what this analyst is saying about gamestop own internal Wii U projections for the holiday period. I don’t know many people who poo-poo a company who bring in 10 billion dollars a year in new and used videogame merchandise.

And for someone "crying" and letting Nintendo fans bother me, your emotional tirade doesn’t make you look too good.  It’s a sales site, why wouldn’t a person be interested in that?