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JGarret on 14 February 2013
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noname2200 said:
Yakuzaice said:
noname2200 said:
JGarret said:
What will Wii U numbers for February be like?

35k?

Four week month, right?

Eh, I say 40-45k.

Considering Fist of the North Star is the only release in February, and it won't have the holiday tail, I'd say that is optimistic.  If we scale VGC's weekly numbers to NPD's total we see 56% of the sales happened in the first two weeks.  The other 44% were pretty evenly split in the last three.  If we use the 55k, that means 24.2k in the last three weeks or less than 8.1k per week.  Even if that holds for February, we are only looking at 32.3k.

Good points. Still, color me an optimist!


Here´s a post from gaf I found interesting:

Now, just for a moment I think an exercise might be interesting:

Do we think this state of Wii U is purely going to be representative of the failings of Nintendo, or do you think PS4 and Xbox 720 might do the same? Might we be seeing the first true sign of what awaits the industry in a few months? Why or why not? 

I've always maintained I hate system launches and their "launch windows" because generally speaking we might get ONE good game at best and two mediocre ones, and then eleven-twenty atrocious ones followed by no games for 3-6 months. And I still suspect the same will be true of Xbox 720 and PS4. Games take a long time to develop, and there's generally never enough time to ensure your game is in a healthy state by the time devs got the final dev kits and modified their vision and content to make it on time. 

What type of games do we think Xbox 720 or PS4 might have to change the game in their own way? I certainly feel Sony is in a much better position in terms of game development than Nintendo is, given that they've put out tentacles all over the place this gen and have experience with it now. But I don't know if it'd be enough... because it's clearly probably going to launch at $399.99 along with Xbox 720, and that's a lot of money for people these days coupled with a terrible launch window and experiences they've already had before.


Just wondering what people might think of this