| Seece said: Surely one is needed for the other? Unless of course Nintendo push back most of their software to the latter part of next holiday, price cut $100 and do mass mass advertising. |
I dont think it needs a massive holiday in order to sell well next year. 3D Mario+Holidays will continue to see Wii U sales increase for the rest of the year, 2.2m for Nov+Dec seems like a decent prediction and Is similar to last holiday sales. Those arent amazing numbers but its a step in the right direction compared to the 20-30k weekly sales we saw for so long.
The big difference is this year there were literally no games released in Jan/Feb and the only exclusives released from Mar-June were Lego City and Game & Wario. 2014 has Wii Fit U in Jan, DKC in February, Mario Kart in the spring and Smash Bros is rumored for May. Thats a significantly better Q1-Q2 line up than 2013 had. Also Wii U wont be the most expensive console, will be advertised and has more value in its bundles so sales in the first half of the year should in theory be much better than they were this year even if it doesnt have a huge holiday boost.
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