I don't know why people are blaming the media for the expectations. The Wii U is unlikely to come anywhere close to Nintendo's own forecasts for the fiscal year. The long and short of it is if you look at LTD it is doing decent, but nothing spectacular when you consider availablility and relatively low price. If you look at weekly sales it is dreadful. Last week was well below the equivalent (aligned by region launch) week for the Wii/PS3/360, it was even lower than the aligned week for the Vita. There is also nothing on the horizon to indicate this will improve in the next few months.
The perception of the poor performance after the holidays is likely magnified by the fact that some people were still arguing the Wii U was supply constrained. If it actually had been it wouldn't have seen such a collapse in sales.
| CCFanboy said:
The only place wii u is sluggish is europe. If it was as fast as it was everywhere else its perfectly possible wii u could be outselling wii figures as well. |
The Wii U is below the Wii in every region. That gap will get even wider as we move into 2013. Even if it had an extra 500k in Europe to match NA it would still be well below the Wii. Considering the Wii sold 251k for the week of Jan 13th 2007, while the Wii U did 52k last week, I'm not sure how you can say it is only sluggish in Europe. For the equivalent week the Wii was selling 5.5x more in the US, 5x more in Europe, and 4.6x more in Japan.
