8th gen sales by Jan 1 2015

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haxxiy said:

MDMAlliance said:

 

I was just saying that if they really believe it will be around 12m, they are expecting the Wii U to not have any significant games to boost sales past its current state.  
So that would mean they wont think Bayonetta 2, Pikmin 3, Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart 8, 3D Mario, X, possibly Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem, and more games that are bound to come before Jan 1 2015 will do the trick (plus a price cut).  
The thing is that the Gamecube and Wii U were in different situations, albeit they seem to struggle the same.  
Also, looking at gamecubes World Wide sales doesn't tell the entire story, look at it by region.  Gamecube DID sell in North America.  It did not, however, in Europe and Japan.  From what it looks like, Wii U is doing roughly the same in each region.  

It's debatable if the GC North American sales would be considered relevant nowadays though. But I think you are right.

I think what GC did is irrelevant nowadays. Wii U is coming off the success of a console that will sell over 100m while GC was coming off the heels of a 33m console. Most of Nintendo key franchises on GC went wierd routes. At spaceworld 2000 nintendo showed off Mario 128 and a dark Zelda, people were expecting those but instead got cartoon Zelda and Mario vacarion spin-off, Donkey Kong only had music/rhythm games, Kirby only had a racing game, Star Fox left the cockpit to fight dinosaurs, Metroid became a FPS (this one payed off), the only main franchises that didnt drastically change were Mario Kart and Smash Bros. Also GC had PS2 to deal with which came out a year earlier, was one of the first affordable DVD players and had most of the big franchises exclusive, I dont see Wii U comp being nearly that dominant. So there are a few reasons that GC and Wii U are completely different situations.