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Locknuts on 19 November 2013
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Soundwave said:
Locknuts said:
Too early. We'll know after Christmas.


If Wii U can't crack 300k for November 2013 NPD, I'd say the writing is pretty much on the wall. That would mean that its selling at about a Dreamcast rate (maybe even slightly worse) even with NSMBU + Mario 3D World + Wii Fit U + Wii Party U and by now a decent supporting library.

It sold somewhere between 50-60k in October, and generally speaking consoles/handhelds have a multiplier of 2x-3x more sales in November over October (this is true of Wii, DS, and many other platforms). 

Even if we give the Wii U several benefits of the doubt here ... lets say it sold 59k for October (the higher end of the range given by creamsugar at NeoGaf), and lets say it has a whopping 5x multiplier in sales from October to November, much higher than the normal 2-3x increase most platforms get... that still only takes you to 295,000 systems sold for November. 

295k is not good. The GameCube sold 468k its second November and that wasn't anything to crow about back then. 

Yeah. Not a lot of hope really, but I'll reserve judgement until Jan.