| PDF said:
If NPD numbers cause vgchartz to retract theirs then I will gladly uncross it. I rather act sooner then later for this one because the holiday will soon be upon us and muddle things up, making it harder to determine whether its the holiday spiking WiiU sales or the pricecut. |
The problem there is that the price cut doesn't exist in a vacuum. The impending bundles could have the same effect globally as they had in Japan, pushing sales down until their launch week.
In other words, with such a small span of time between the price cut and the bundles' release, it's impossible to say whether a sharp decline in weekly hardware sales is due to the price cut "not working" or a sign that the bundles are working.
We just saw this in Japan, where Wii U sales had averaged in the 5-10k range for several months, but dropped below 3,000 units last week only to jump to nearly 40,000 with the bundles, its highest point since the beginning of January -- and I should mention that the console did not receive the price cut in Japan.
