W101 is going to be a gargantuan flop

[Soundwave]

Nyleveia said:

oniyide said:

Nyleveia said:

Soundwave said:

Shame on Japan honestly and shame on Nintendo for the way they've marketed this.

I never expected this to be a big hit or anything, but sub 6000 copies is ridiculous for a fanbase that's "starved for games" (or so I'm told). 

Dont blame the Japanese, we dont want the bloody console so why would we want its games?

Sales are generally bad because nobody keeps the console here long enough to buy more games, unlike fans over in the us sitting on a game-less console for months on end you go a month here without any games and its the last straw, console is being ditched left and right by adults and kids alike, bad enough so that most of the second hand stores i know of here no longer accept wiiu trade ins for hardware because they cant sell them on with any meaningful profit as nobody bites.

is it really that bad over there?cause if it is explains a lot

You can buy a premium wiiu here for 9000y less than retail, but they sit on store shelves untouched - my local used game stop last week dropped ALL of their basics to 14,000y ($138) and ALL of their premiums to 19,000y ($189), and not a single freaking one has sold as of today when i checked in to rifle through their snes cart collection.

When people here want nintendo games they buy a 3DS, nobody here needs or wants the WiiU anymore,  PS4 is getting some advertising but not much, Xbox One is virtually unheard of.

But the situation is such that I genuinely believe its too far gone for any collection of games to save it.

It doesnt matter what they release, because the best any game is going to sell is sub 1 million because the userbase is smaller than the total number of consoles sold - if we guestimate that one in twenty (conservative) sold the console rather than keep it, then thats already 150,000 - 300,000 less potential buyers, 300,000 - 600,000 if we go for a high estimate of one in ten.

People arent going to want to hear this of course, they prefer the emu approach of pretending everythings peachy.

Really great insights into the Japanese market, thank you for that. Seems like the Wii U situation is really dire there.