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Kaizar on 15 April 2013
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DanneSandin said:
Kaizar said:
DanneSandin said:
 

I don't even think Wii U has reached 4m yet... It's around 3m, or there about. Maybe they've shipped 4m, but that's not the same thing as selling 4m.

I'd like for you to take a look at the statistics in this thread, in the OP: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=151051 comparing Wii U sales with those of PS360. As of last week PS3 sold more than Wii U in tha same time span. And it looks like Wii U very shortly will fall behind X360 sales as well. While the launch was great, the subsecuent sales of Wii U has been terrible. Had it maintained the momentum of the launch I'm sure Wii U would have sold 15m within the first year, but that's not gonna happen if this continue.


It's just about 3 million now. Anyways my point is that it's taking a fraction of the time despite Home Consoles having a smaller market then Handhelds, as the DS & 3DS & PSP has shown.

And the fact that the Wii U is outselling the Vita every week, including Euroasia by itself says a lot. Clearly games are holding it back, but luckily theres Wii Fit U & Wii Party U & the long awaited Pikmin 3 & new Wario, will help bring it back but those won't come out for some time.

Actually, the DS and PSP sold about 225m together, while PS360Wii has sold about 250m, which means that home consoles are a bigger market...

I wouldn't bet that those games will move a lot of units. They'll definetly move SOME units, but not a crazy lot. Pikmin is a small franchise (relatively) selling about 2m at most up to now, and Wii Fit probably won't take away in the same way the original Wii Fit did, and I doubt Wii U Party will do a hell of a lot either... Wii U is in a grimm place right now, and it won't get much better until Fall and Holiday season. Wii U will very soon be selling less than PS360 in tha same amount of time.


I mean individually, because Sony & Microsoft don't make money off the competitions Hardware selling, and same goes for Nintendo & Sony.

The DS sold almost as many as the PS2 with a fraction of the time. The PSP reach 70 million before the 360 did.

Sony only makes money from Sony Hardware & Microsoft only makes money from Xbox Hardware & Nintendo only makes money from Nintendo Hardware.

And not everyone who buys 1 Home Console buys another, let alone the small percentage that actually owns all 3 Home Consoles. You got to remember that each company needs to make money for itself to survive.

I agree that Wii Fit U won't move hardware as fast and maybe also not as much as the Wii Fit did, but you can expect the majority percentage who got Wii Fit to get Wii Fit U, and the Wii was so successful that that's plenty of Hardware that needs to be move, since no one is going to see Wii sales in Home Consoles probably never again.