Are Pikmin 3 FW sales proof enough for you that the Wii U is not doomed?

[Michael-5]

Einsam_Delphin said:

Michael-5 said:

spurgeonryan said:

The game sold about 100,000 in it's first few days in Japan.

It did not give the Wii U a huge boost, but this is just one game. One game a month and the Wii U all of a sudden shoots up.

This is also only one week, if Wii U sales drop back down to 10,000 units weekly, no progress is made.

Actually, after Pikmin 3's release, I'm a bit worried for the Wii U. I thought Pikmin 3, the first AAA exclusive for the Wii U, would have boosted sales a lot more in Japan. I thought hardware would have gone to 40,000 units or so, not just 22,200.

I just hope this is enough to keep Wii U sales a bit higher, I now can't see Wii U outselling the PS3/360 until PS4/One or Super Mario 3D Worlds releases, and after the holidays I'm not longer confident that sales will continue to hold.

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P.S. It's actually 2 games because Super Luigi U released on the same day, and now Japan has nothing for over a month.

It's just one game though, and as NSMBU has shown, it's gonna take much more than that. I believe most people buy systems for a collection of games, not solely just for one specific game. Pikmin 3 is a great game and it'll certainly help, but the Wii U's library as a whole is still very much lacking, and so it will continue to sell mediocre until this is fixed.

Gamecube released in September in Japan, so its big spike is late. However WiiU hardware appears to be selling at about the same rate as the Gamecube sold in Japan.

Unless WiiU sales hold 20k weekly in Japan, I see no evidence that it will perform better then Gamecube within its first 52 weeks.

Mind you, Gamecube had a lot of games after launch. Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, Eternal Darkness, Mario Party 4, Metroid Prime, etc. So the fact that WiiU is keeping up with only Pikmin 3 and NSMBU so far, means that it's going to do better overall.

Still, that red line is far, far below the blue one. WiiU really needed more then a 100% boost.....Wonderful 101 won't help much, so this means for another 3 months, Wii U sales will still be low. Then Wii Party U should fix things.