Wii U Sells Only Over 48k IN Japan!? Dooomed :-)

[Zero999]

Fido said:

I especially don't get why people say "The numbers are bad considering there was a new DQ released"!! Remember that game already came out to WiiU in March this year, this is just a re-release with some kind of add-on in it... I don't think the bump of 20k this week had all that much to do with the DQ release.

The sales trend is positive as it has been for the last couple of weeks. Not to record smashing, but from really bad to ok numbers and i hope and think that it's gonna settle in the 20k region after the holidays.

The new PS/Xbox had very good starts, but they both launched in the holiday season and at least the PS4 had a great amount of hype in advance! WiiU also had good numbers at launch, the two will have to prove themselves next year when the hype has died and the first game draughts start to hit...

bolded: i thought that too but it's not even that. it's an expansion, meaning one must own the first version in order to play it. that means very very few of those buyers were just getting their wii u.