| snowdog said: I think my sales targets are quite realistic given the software that's coming. It's sold around 3m already and I can't see it doing too badly during the 8 months between now and November. Should do 3m in 8 months quite comfortably, if not more. And sales will explode when a 3D Mario and Mario Kart 8 hit the shop shelves before Black Friday, even without a price cut. The Wii U's main two problems are lack of new software for the last two months and shite marketing. And both of those issues I'm sure will be dealt with between now and the end of the year, we already know what software's on the way and that's before any E3 Megatons are dropped. |
I took your figures at face value but out of curiosity I checked them out myself. The Wii U hasn't even sold 3mil yet. They have sold closer to 2.7m according to VGC and that is if they haven't over tracked them. We know retailers are slashing prices like mad in UK without getting generous results. Nintendo shipped 3m Wii U's at the end of December and looking at NPD and mediacrate they will be lucky to ship another 500k in this quarter. Less than 800k on shelves would be pretty supply constrained but since Wii U is selling so slowly maybe retailers only want 1 or 2 per store and 800k for the Wii U is actually a healthy amount in retail.
Anyway back to your figures, 2.7mil in 4 months. According to VGC (which I don't personally like to use much) the Wii U is selling 30k a week... To even reach 3mil it would take 10 weeks alone at it's current pace! obviously it will fluctuate... and you are asking it to do 3.3mil in 28 weeks? It would need to sell an average of 120k a week to do that!
The Wii U WILL NOT sell 6mil by the end of October.
