Yen Plummets, Nintendo Soars!

[Screamapillar]

Soundwave said:

Screamapillar said:

To give an update on the stock situation, Nintendo is currently trending downward, following the release of the NPD results last night of only 66,000 Wii U's sold in the U.S. during February.  3DS sales and Fire Emblem numbers provided them with some good news, though.   It wasn't all bad.

They are expecting to meet their guidance of 4 million Wii U's sold worldwide by the end of March.  If anything, Iwata's shareholder briefing at the end of April will be more about drumming up strengths of future product launches later this year, and less about dwelling on weak console sales in January and February.  What's in the past is in the past, and I think now that Monster Hunter and LEGO City are coming out in the west, Wii U can only grow from here.  The software drought is officially over.

I don't think they are going to meet 4 million Wii Us shipped but we'll see. Maybe they can barely squeeze it out.

They probably sold a little less than 120k Wii Us combined for Feburary between the US and Japan, and Europe is likely less than either of those markets.

I also don't see LEGO City being a hit. No licensed property (ie: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman, etc.) and no co-op will limit its appeal dramatically. If "Lego Star Wars" was a generic unlicensed "Space Sci Fi LEGO" game, I don't think it would've done 1/10th of the sales. 

I forget which analayst said so, but it was just after the NPD results came in that one of the more prominent analysts that continuously makes predictions said that according to his firm's data, they said Nintendo is looking very likely to hit their goal of 4 million.  I don't know how either, but apparently it's happening.