Yakuzaice on 30 January 2013
To give a preview of Q4 shipments, let's look at Japan.
The Wii U shipped 830k as of Dec 31st.
Media Create has recorded sales of 745,485 as of Jan 27th.
There are 9 weeks left in Q4, and last week they sold 13,746. If sales are flat for the next 9 weeks, the Wii U will have sales of 869,199 at the end of the fiscal year. That would result in a shipment of at most 100k. When you consider that on VGC Japanese sales have made up 47.2% of all Wii U sales for 2013, that 940k forecast for Q4 looks very unlikely. Especially when other regions seem to have overshipped even more than Japan. Expect Wii U hardware to miss the forecast for the fiscal year.
