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Kane1389 on 01 December 2013
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Aielyn said:
Kane1389 said:
Aielyn said:
Sales of Wii U have increased by nearly 75% in the last two weeks. And it's only going to continue to grow through Christmas, as Nintendo consoles always do. And even right now, the Wii U sold roughly as much as the Xbox 360, and technically outsold the PS4. In other words, it's selling fine.


Jesus Christ, dat denial

I'll have to say it to you, too, I suppose. Words have meanings. "Fine" doesn't mean "great", it means "fine", "passable", "satisfactory", "sufficiently", "within reason", etc. The phrase "it's selling fine" doesn't mean "it's selling stellarly" or "it's selling exceedingly well", it means "sales are nothing to sneeze at, nowadays". There's no denying that sales in general are depressed relative to this point in the previous generation, in all respects (game sales on current and previous-gen systems, etc). Note that this isn't referring to launch sales, which are always subject to supply, hype, etc. When you factor this in, you see that the Wii U is right where you'd expect, really.

What I find funny is that the same people who shout "denial" at anyone being satisfied with Wii U sales numbers now are the same people (or similarn in mentality) to the people who constantly dismissed the Wii's sales numbers as irrelevant, and constantly tried to mark it as "teh cazualz" in order to feel better about their own system - you know, REAL denial behaviour, not just satisfaction with the situation.

I didn't expect it to be selling bellow Dreamcast, I can tell you that.

And no its not fine by any stretch of imagination.  PS3 outsold it almost 2:1, despite being 7 years old. It also failed to outsell the 360 (the console you like to compare the WiiU a lot) despite 360 being dead in 1 market. 

It barely outsold PS4 by less than 20k despite PS4 being available in only 1 region...and completly sold out, whereas Wii U is available worldwide and in a good supply thanks to small demand. You do know that by this time PS4 (and probably Xbone too) have already passed Wii U's YTD sales. And it only took them 1-2 weeks. Thats outright pathetic for Nintendo. 

And please dont bring up ''percentage growth'' and comparisons to the 360 like you constantly do, you know full well % growth means nothing when you still cant sell the same amount of consoles in holiday season that your competitors have been selling during the whole year with much older consoles. And 360 had powerfull hardware for it time, incredible 3rd party support and the best online infrastructure, neither of which can  be said about the Wii U.

I dont know if that last paragraph was aimed at me or no, but I've seen lot of people saying Nintendo shouldn't compete/isn't competing with Sony and MS (hint: look 3 posts above). Funny how things worked out