JakDaSnack said:
Mummelmann said:
JakDaSnack said:
Mummelmann said:
I wonder what their comments will be to the big miss on the fiscal target and the lack of shipments for the start of Q2? Remaining silent in their current situation is not cute or clever, its probably the silliest thing they can do right now. They should have spoken up weeks ago. |
Their target is 4 million,
They have officially sold 3.06 million(by the end December), and unoffically sold another 420k(in january and febuary), so you may have spoke a little too soon.
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Those are shipped numbers. Stores are reporting excess stock from the initial shipments that came almost half a year ago. They won't be able to ship any more Wii U's in March or Q2 because people won't place the order since the original stock isn't budging. Besides, let's not forget that the original target was 5.5 million with a likely sellthrough of 5 million expected, this has been shaved to 4 million shipped and a likely 3.5 million sellthrough expected and will still be missed by at least 15-20% with a really poor sellthrough. There was no plan, direction or reason behind this product, that is becoming more and more evident.
I haven't really spoken too soon, I've been saying for months that they would miss this target by a great deal (and that was the original 5.5 million, missing the adjusted one is nothing short of a small crisis). January, february and march sales are simply atrocious and their conservative projection is still way too big, I'm not the one who spoke too soon, the ones who claimed certain success after november and december did though.
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Shoot, you found me, I changed my comment hoping you wouldn't see it>.> not because I think it's wrong or whatever, it's simply because I don't feel like arguing about it, and I decided that after I posted it, so I immediately changed it, you must have eyes like a hawk:P
But whatever, the 5.5 million sales was estimated back when pikmin 3, raymon legends and lego city were all launch titles, and the 4 million sales were back when raymon legends was coming out in febuary. If the wiiU gets within 500k of that estimate, I would be shocked. Either way, sales will pick up once the rest of the announced games come out, and I would easily bet you my profile pic rights:P that the ps4 and 720 will have similar launch window sales as the wiiU:P
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I'll grant you that the Wii U has already been given the middle finger by some developers, Rayman seems like a fairly solid title and losing exclusivity is bad but losing the launch window is worse, they could use some more games. I'll also grant you that the PS4 and 720 won't have amazing launch windows, I think they'll have a better first Q1 though, with perhaps a smaller or somwhat similar debut holiday.
A lot of people are expecting way too much out of either one or all three of the 8th gen consoles.
