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Mummelmann on 05 November 2013
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benji232 said:
Mummelmann said:
Yeah, it's not doing great. The holiday spike should have set in by now, instead it appears to be headed down farily quickly from a rather short bump due to a price cut.
I think my conservative year-end prediction will be a massive fail, it will likely end up at half that or there about.

One can hope that they'll be able to make the Wii U profitable at least somewhere around Q2 2014, the software sales are a bit slow to cover the losses in a meaningful way.

By the way, don't you mean Q3 and Q4?

So for you, going down 5% weekly in the US from an almost 300% boost from a pricecut after being in effect for 5 full weeks is *fairly quickly*. Not to mention it boosted Europe sales by 600% and it has been in effect there for a 4 vgchartz weeks or 3 full weeks. Even if sales are still bad, i'd say that if an HD remake+a small price cut (If we can even count it as one seeing there was already a 300$ model available since launch), it is safe to say that mario 3D world+ the usual holiday spike should lead it to a great holiday season. And as tbone said, that holiday boost you were referring to starts in november... not in october.

With the numbers it was pulling before, several hundred percent boosts aren't that incredible. It still sold about 1/3 of the PS3, which is part of a gen about to end. The Wii U still has a long way to go before it can be called great sales-wise.

There is no two ways about it; the Wii U is struggling to gain a footing and while the holiday boost affects all, including the Wii U, the numbers will likely plummet down into the 35-45k region from february and onwards. I guess we'll have to see.

For the record, I don't expect all that much from the One or the PS4 either. The 8th gen will be a slow one with relatively few highlights, in my opinion.