Global HW +SW Up! 21st September 2013 (GTA V Week) ~336k PS3 ~180K X360

[JWeinCom]

Yakuzaice said:

JWeinCom said:

People can expect whatever they want, but expecting Wii U sales to double over 2 days is kind of silly in my estimation.  It would probably hit that with a full week, but not with two days of sales.  Systems don't sell without big games.  A price cut is nice, but look at the Vita and what that price cut did.  A price cut without software is meaningless.  You need a price cut + marketing + games.  The Wii U has the price cut, the games are coming, and now it's just a matter of marketing.  I think the Wii U will sell well in the long run, but if you're expecting a huge boost this week, than prepare to eat some crow.  Of course if I'm wrong, I'll gladly do the same. 

It had Wind Waker HD last week which probably has the highest system selling potential until Mario in two months (I can see Wii Party selling more SW units than WW, but by virtue of being dirt cheap with a Wii remote).  I'm not sure why you are saying it was without software.  If Wii U sales are going to continue to languish until the end of November, then what was the point of the price cut.  The 3DS more than doubled in the US when OoT 3D released.  Granted it had more than two days, but it also didn't have a price cut and It was also doubling from a higher baseline.  The Wii U has certainly gone up more than 3-4k in the past with just software, no bundle or price drop.

Now with that said, the people predicting 50k+ obviously weren't being realistic.  However acting like 3-4k was to be expected isn't very realistic either.  Regardless, we'll need to wait till NPD to get accurate numbers.

So, according to VGChartz numbers, Wii U did just over 20K this week in North America, and slightly under 20K in the US.  I said that expecting Wii U to double as a result of the two days of priecuttiness was silly, and I am happily wrong about that.  Nice to see Wii U sales expressed as a five digit number.  Hopefully that trend will continue.