My Wii U estimation(near future, instal base, short)...

[eyeofcore]

drake4 said:

eyeofcore said:

I am not basing Wii U's my estimation on Wii U's recent success in Japan as you premuse and probably hope so  also you are just presume/assume that Wiii U is bombing outside of Japan which is not correct and Wii U sells considerably better than GameCube in Japan as we compare the second year.

Gamecube had better 3rd party support yet it did not result in sales and Wii U sells well compared to Gamecube when we see the amount of 3rd party support that Gamecube has over Wii U. Wii U by now should have 5 million units in one year one and half months which is 1(4th of Gamecube sales and Gamecube achieved in 5-6 years in its life time 20 million units. When we look at Wii U and compare it to Gamecube, Wii U looks like an anomaly.

You have the point yet you are going too doom and gloom into consoles 1st year, look at PlayStation 3... It rose from the ashes in much harder enviroment so Wii U with its problems should easily overcome them. Once the software sales are very good for Nintendo on Wii U then Nintendo might bite the bullet again and drop price to 250$ which is a magical bundle, then you will see Wii U fly off the shelf as it did does at some retailers that did holiday price cut.

Expect that price drop next holiday...

the gamecube sold  6.68 million its first year, i don't see your point there and ps3 is like comparing apple to oranges, the ps3 is crushing the wiiu interms of monthly sales it actually had momentum, and launched in europe 5 months later,thats why its first year looks so bad, it was missing numbers from its best selling region.

Gamecube had a huge support from the start thus it had good sales while Wii U does not have that kind of support yet it sold very good when you compare it to Gamecube so if it had Gamecube like support then it would blow Gamecube out of the water and you can only expect better sales for Wii U next year as a lot of exclusives arrive. Just compare the library between Gamecube and Wii U in its first and second year... Wii U should be doing much worse than Gamecube and that is not happening, it can only get better. Wii U already hit the all time low inbetween Q2/Q3 and it can't get any worser.

Wii U does not have the same problem as the Gamecube to be "repulsive" to "gamers" by its look and other things...

Look at 3DS, it was considered dead and Nintendo turned it around so I don't see Nintendo failing to turn around Wii U, also when I mentioned PlayStation 3 I was talking about how much effort was needed to turn it around  for Sony while Wii U does not have nearly as close of issues/problems as PlayStation 3 thus it will be "far" easier for Nintendo to turn Wii U's fortunes around.

You keep underestimating, you keep underestimating... You probably did that with DS, Wii and 3DS... Learn! Learn for once!