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Maelstrome on 08 January 2013
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Maelstrome said:
EdHieron said:
cunger said:

The demand for Wiiu has been much higher than the 360 at launch.


I really can't see how that can be the case.  The 360 was completely unavailable in most areas of the US until the Spring of 06, and it was selling for a couple of hundred dollars at least over its retail price on ebay.  Wii U is available in about any store you walk into and it's selling for $25 to $50 less than its retail price on ebay.


or it could just be that theirs is plenty of stock for the wii u. nintendo stated they did not want to repeat the shortages of the wii. look up super chunks thread on the wii u launch vs other launches. maybe after ms had sold less than 30 mil of the original xbox they didnt expect to pick up as quick and didnt ship enough.

all we know for certain is that the wii u is currently selling faster than the xbox 360 did in the same time period.

Read this

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/385270/wii-u-sales-hit-600k-in-december-in-the-us-analysts/

Nintendo is trying the limited console tactic that they tried with the Wii. The demand is lower than the Wii which is why the only time you couldnt find one at launch until mid december. By late december Wii U's could be found anywhere and werent sold out. Explain how six and seven year old consoles are outselling the Wii in fourth quarter. When the Wii was out demand was still sky high through the end of the year and beyond. This is showing that Nintendo is competing for the same crowd the 360 and PS3 are dominating right now. If the casual audience was truly being sought after we wouldn't even be talking about this right now because the Wii U would've gone through the same commercialization as the Wii.

are you really surprised that systems with a larger library and cheaper price are selling better than a system with a smaller library and higher price?

isnt there a thread here that shows that is pretty normal? instead of comparing the weekly sales compare the launches. after a year on the market then compare weekly sales. same goes for when the other consoles launch.