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Incubi on 13 September 2013
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Soundwave said:
Incubi said:
So WiiU sales will pick up nicely this month and go to the stratosphere in november and december, hopefully.
By limiting supply of Wii heavily these next few months mean customers not knowing the difference between Wii and WiiU will only see WiiU units in store. Hopefully.

lol, I think realistically the best case realistic scenario is Wii U can maybe match the GameCube's holiday 2002 numbers -- (468k for Nov + 619k for Dec). Even that might be asking for an awful lot considering the GCN is trouncing the Wii U right now.

It is worth noting that Super Mario Sunshine got mixed reviews and wasn't universally accepted, even by Nintendo fans. If 3D World gets very good reviews and are accepted by both 3D Mario and 2D mario fans, I think it can be done and WiiU reach GC sales for those two months. It could reach higher if Wii Party U resonates with casuals. But I'm not very optimistic about that.

Also. I'm curious as to how many WiiU units retailers will buy. If WiiU doesn't do very well in september at retail, how many units will they be inclined to buy for the 3rd quarter? If they dont have much faith in WiiU this holiday, they may just not order many units. Even if it suddenly explodes on the power of Mario and the return of the casuals, there still may not be much of any units at retail and emergency orders may not be in time for the holidays. I dont know.