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justinian on 18 December 2013
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Viper1 said:
Mummelmann said:

Well, that's even worse if that's the case. Using the 360 in Japan as a metric to measure success is... strange.

Besides; the PS3 sold about 1.3 million in Japan in the first full calendar year even though it had competition, from the Wii no less, the Wii U is competing with 7-8 year old consoles and only recently started beating them. There's really no way to spin this into a great achievement.

Comparing the Wii U against past consoles is going to make it look bad.  What this thread is alluding to is the past performance of the Wii U itself.  Which is indeed much better.  And the rate of change seen for the holiday bump is quite a lot higher for Wii U than other consoles.   That must have a lot to do with having the right marketing and games right now.

Will it do well with upcoming consoles on the shelves too?  Hard to say but it's certainly doing much better than it was 8 weeks ago which is why there is celebration lately.

I believe it fair that a console can celebrate an acheivement against itself and not just against competition. Do we not celebrate when we succeed after previous failure?


Well said. Wii U is in a private battle. The battle of survival. Nothing else matters. PS4 to come or PS3 and wii of the past is irrelavant.

For me the wii u's first major objective is to get to 10m during 2014 and then outsell the GameCube overall (others may want different primary objectives). It may or may not happen.

To me significant improved sales in Japan is an achievement.  Let's see how it pans out WW.