Wii U game sales 'far behind launch levels for Gamecube and Wii'

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JWeinCom said:

Yeah it was sold out (keep in mind the Wii U was pretty much sold out for a few weeks after its release, including Black Friday). Now, here's the question. What method did you use to determine that Microsoft would have sold about 400,000 more units in the US without supply constraints? Please explain how you came to this figure. Seems to me like you're just making a baseless assumption as to what the demand was.

As for the original X-Box sales, I can't really find anything to corroborate that. Only thing I found was on video game sales wikia, but that's a shipped figure and the supposed reports it linked to are dead links. Do you have any source?

Edit:  Also, let's not forget that the original X-Box launched with Halo.  X-Box 360 launched with Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo, and a pre Modern Warfare Call of Duty.

November 2001
Xbox: 711,619
Gamecube: 647,466

December 2001
Xbox: 690,817
Gamecube: 558,200

So the Life-to-date totals, all of them covering very close to the same number of days, are:
Xbox: 1.4 million
Gamecube: 1.2 million
Wii U: 885k

 

these are from neogaf and 100% confirmed. the method that i used was common sense, since 2006-2012 360 has done over a million units in december, obiouvsly if was'nt sold out would sold better then the orginial xbox you simply can not make up the sales missed for november and december.