| Yakuzaice said: 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. |
Japan is all but dead for the Wii U in the short term, unless DQX comes out earlier than expected and has a significant impact, which I doubt since the game is already old news, but who knows, they could do a bundle.
Resto of the world is in a dire situation as well, only game that could move some hardware but not in big quantities is Lego City, nothing else. The schedule is empty and void of any interesting or HW moving games when matched with the other consoles.
Nintendo is in for a rough end of the fiscal year. I'm eagerly awaiting the Q&A roundtable of tonight.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
