Wii U Initial Sales Better Than PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360?

[gigantor21]

bananaking21 said:

gigantor21 said:

bananaking21 said:

badgenome said:

bananaking21 said:
the launch of the system was really good. numbers were really solid, but then sales dropped like a rock

Sounds familiar.

- picture of the deceased

its disrespectful to speak bad about the dead

Why did this make me laugh so hard when I have a Vita? XD

But yeah. That's the weird thing about this: the sales it had during the holiday season were amazing, and yet as soon as you hit January they careen off a goddamned cliff. It looks like it's going to sell just above the PS3 through March, because the post-Christmas numbers are so shit they're eating into the huge advantage it had over the PS3's holiday numbers. This despite the PS3 being dismissed as an expensive paperweight for several years.

It's so schizophrenic.

haha because its a funny joke

and actually if my memory serves me correctly, the november numbers were really really good, it didnt reach Wii numbers but it was close, then the decembers were quiet bad, i remember it was even lower than PS3's first december. then in january the console went from bad to straight out horrible.

the PS3's numbers were actually healthier, even though they are still less (aligned) the drop from the christmas period to the post-christmas period was less, it also stabilized at a higher number then the WiiU's. and this is just USA, lets not start talking about europe 

Holy shit, you're right. As far as the NPD numbers go:

PS3 in December '06: 490,700 (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=12375)

 WiiU in December '12: 460,000

And the Gamasutra article states that the PS3 was "severely supply constrained" to boot, meanining that it could've sold more. Damn.