| chris_wing said: I'm still trying to figure out just what the future holds for the Wii U, if it will rise again or if it's done before it even got started. I just looked through the top 75 ww software sales & only saw four first party Wii U games (Mario 2D/3D/Luigi/Party) & zero 3rd party Wii U games. |
It's a temporary thing, because the data we have is from the second week of the PS4 (in the US) and the first week of the XBO (in select countries), with no notable third party Wii U games released in that week, and it's the week immediately before Black Friday.
If you look two weeks back, to before PS4 and XBO launches, CoD:Ghosts for Wii U was 41st. In the week before that, Sonic Lost World Wii U was 29th and AC4:BF Wii U was 41st. The week before that, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Wii U was 22nd, Batman: Arkham Origins Wii U was 26th, and Skylanders Swap Force Wii U was 66th. The week before that, Skylanders Swap Force Wii U was 19th, Sonic Lost World Wii U was 52nd, and Just Dance 2014 Wii U was 65th. Going back a little more, we also see Rayman Legends, Disney Infinity, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist making it into the top 75 of at least one week.
Note that I'm not saying they're particularly strong numbers. Just that you can't judge it based on the last two weeks of data - they're special weeks. The real test is the next week of data, the week of Black Friday - specifically, the US numbers (European/Australian numbers won't spike until mid-December).
