January 2013 NPD Thread - 360: 281k, Wii U: 57k, PSV: 35k

[Scisca]

Claymore said:

Scisca said:

Conegamer said:

Somini said:

Euphoria14 said:

Conegamer said:

ethomaz said:

pezus said:

Euphoria14 said:
WiiU is saved!

According to CNET it sold 57k, NOT 55k!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57569583-235/uh-oh-nintendo-sold-57000-wii-u-units-in-the-u.s-in-january/

Good news everyone! Seriously though, every unit counts now.

We can round up to 60k

60k? SAVED!!! 

Ah, still tragic though, but every k makes a big difference.

Might be tragic, but at least it's almost 2x Vita.

lol it sure is :)

Still the Vita wasn't released 3 months ago, so if you put things in perspective, the Wii U is doing worse actually.

I say drop the price of both those devices and save the industry; Sony and Nintendo.

I never understood this. Consoles never sell their best in their first year on the market, or their second. It's normally the third and fourth, when the consoles are at their peak, there's a steady flow of game releases, the general public know about the system and devs have had time to get used to the console where it sells the most. So the Vita should be selling above the Wii U (not to include the fact that it's a handheld which always sell more as a general rule) because of all the mentioned reasons, yet it's just above 60% of the "new" console. 

The Vita is in a far worse position; at least Nintendo have some massive games on the way and have the money in the bank to cut the price if they want to.

It's actually the other way round. Vita has awesome games to be released pretty much every month now, while Wii U has nothing coming this year. You should get ready to seeing Vita get ahead of Wii U quite often this year. In fact I can easily see Vita outselling Wii U in the period January-September, especially if Sony cuts the price of hardware. I'm finishing the period on September, because we have no announcements about the the last 3 months thus far.

The thing about Wii U doing so bad right now is because it's still in the launch window. Console should be doing well in the launch window, the slump usually comes after it. Unfortunately Wii U started slumping pretty much two weeks after the release, when hype and excitement about a new product should still be selling hardware.

And what Vita games are you on about the only "big releases" I can think of are Soul Sacrifice end of April and maybe killzone in September?

Persona 4, Ragnarok Odyssey and Sly 4 are all yet to be released in Europe, the biggest market so far. Add to this Killzone, Soul Sacrifice, Phantasy Star Online 2, Senran Kagura, Tearaway, Rainbow Moon, Ys: Celceta, God Eater 2, Guacamelee, Warrior's Lair, finally a good FIFA 14 (hopefully) and a bunch of smaller Japan-only games and you have a really nice lineup, which is mainly focusing on Japan - the most important market, that Sony has been neglecting so far. Hopefully Killzone will turn out to be a system seller Vita needs in the West. This lineup is much stronger and has more quality games than what was announced for Wii U thus far. I'm also hoping for a price cut in the window between early April to E3, which should boost sales as well.