| Cyborg13B said: Wii U seems to have been relegated to its current place, and the odds of it climbing higher are pretty small. 26,000 sales per week for 11 months would give 1.248 million units sales. Plus 4 times higher for December, will be 416,000. So 1,664,000 million unit sales per year. Over the course of 5 years that would yield 8.32 million. Just about equal to Sega Saturn and Dreamcast. Will it climb itself miraculously to the top? No. Playstation 4 and Xbox 3 aren't even out yet. And this only launched 6 months ago. It's over. Why it failed: 1. Outdated, weak hardware. 300 GFLOPS is only about equal to Xbox 360. 2. Exorbitant pricing. $300 for a device that is not much better then Xbox 360. 3. Lack of software support. Typical of Nintendo, which wants to corner the market for itself. Ha. That didn't work out so well. 4. Vastly better products on the market - Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 are equal if not better, and have thousands of games out between the two. |
Well that's pretty premature and factually incorrect. It may be selling poorly now, but saying it'll sell 1.65mil a year is way off. I still see 5mil as a mimimum for this year. Most likely 6-8mil. And it will only build on this next year, selling more than your "predicted" lifetime total in 2014 alone. This is because the games releasing in the second half of this year coupled with the (likely) price cut around the time of the PS4One launches. Nintendo have pretty much written off (at least the first half of) this year, and are instead focusing on the 3DS whilst the Wii U has no competition, a risky strategy.
Your analogy would be far more accurate if we were comparing the situation to the Vita, which has been out for 18 months now and still has no "killer app" on the horizon, whilst the Wii U has at least 2 or 3 (Mario Kart, Super Mario). We shall see next year, where I imagine the Wii U will be outselling the PS4 and XOne on a weekly basis. But obviously we have to see how much the things cost before making any realistic prediction.
