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Locknuts on 12 December 2013
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superhippy420 said:
Locknuts said:
I've been checking the online stores bestsellers lists to see how the Wii U is doing. As of right now (in the lead up to Christmas), at Gamestop.com Wii U bundles are at numbers 2 & 10 (Mario & Luigi and WWHD), at Bestbuy.com it's at number 1 and at Walmart.com it's number 5. I'm not sure how this translates to the numbers we're seeing but I have a theory:

I asked at my local EB Games earlier last month how the Wii U was doing. He said the got 3 Mario & Luigi bundles in and sold them day one, but they didn't order any more as the back room was basically reserved for X1 and PS4 launch stock.

Basically, I don't even think retailers had room to stock Wii Us until a couple of weeks ago. Combine this with the reports of retailers selling out of Wii Us and it seems to me they simply weren't ordering them in until now, and if retailers aren't ordering them in, then they can't possibly sell. Make of that what you will, but I think the Wii U might be ok going into next year. If not, it's definitely time for Nintendo to rethink their strategy.

Sounds about right.  Even though the Wii U has been selling poorly, they know that Nintendo/Mario is still a huge seller during Christmas time.  If the boost that the Wii U got in the last 8 days of November keeps up through December then the Wii U should sell around 500k worldwide for the month, which would be a huge rebound considering only one big title was released.  Nintendo software lineup until August was terrible and the sales showed that.  Xbone/PS4 are going to have the same problem come next year. They won't drop to 60k like the Wii U did but I have a hard time seeing how they will move more than 125k per month with no software. 

PS4 and X1 have a surprising number of quality titles coming early next year. Ground Zeroes, Titanfall, Second Son, Rayman Legends etc. I know most of those are available on PS360 & PC, but I reckon they'll keep the hype train going early into next year. It's up to Nintendo to ensure that DK, MK and whatever else they've got coming are top quality titles. I really believe that all three have the potential to do well, but it's entirely up to the quality of the games produced.