WIIU owners: where do you see it in 3 years?

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Max King of the Wild said:

DucksUnlimited said:

I don't think hitting 7m this FY is such a crazy idea. They're releasing tons of big hitters and have a very affordable console. I guess we'll just have to see what the software does for it this holiday.

Well they already had 1st quarter and they only shipped 0.16mil units. That means they need to ship 6.84mil more to reach 7mil... or 181,000 weekly... let's face it Nintendo did't ship 2.4mil this quarter. Probably around the same as last quarters number... but I'll be generous and say it shipped the same as Q4 last FY year (0.39mil). That leaves 6.45mil for 6 months... or 263,000 weekly...Well, this is the quarter that Nintendo needs to make up ground for that. Do you see them shipping that number anytime soon? You think stores are going to accept that kind of stock when they can't even move that volume in 3 months? Do you even think they will have a week before BF that even tops that figure? I very sincerely doubt it. That's another 2 months away. Even if they sell half that in the next 8 weeks (which is very very generous) leading up to BF that would be 300,000 weekly from BF on out...  I don't think they'll do that in Q4 which would make damn near 800k a week from BF - Dec 31st.

7mil is very difficult for Nintendo but not impossible.

Gamecube shipped 80,000 units from April-June 2003, the total fiscal year shipments were 5.02 million. Thats shows a console can have a horrible first quarter and come back later in the year. Wii U shipped 160,000 April-June of this year so 7 million is possible.