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bonzobanana on 31 December 2013
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justinian said:
bonzobanana said:
The PS4 is likely to overtake it in the next few months and has already overtaken wii u in UK and possibly mainland Europe. Xbox One is already half way to matching it. Not forgetting that the ps4 and xbox one are aimed at older gamers who tend to be able to afford larger purchases throughout the year.

In Europe the original wii still outsells wii u most of the time and may well go back to outselling wii u after christmas. That's without any real marketing and many online wii features being discontinued. So Nintendo are killing it off but still it competes well with wii u. The market is saturated with original wii's too.

PS3 is doing 3x the number of consoles as wii u in Europe.

It's clear the wii u numbers in Japan and USA are better but Nintendo can't afford to let the wii u become irrelevant in Europe. If they don't watch out it could be quite a niche product in Europe only sold in limited outlets.




When the wii u sells badly it is "doomed". When it sells OK it "is still not selling as good as the other consoles". It changes from survival to winning.

I expect xbox one sales will be close to wii u. The wii u also had a good start. That doesn't mean much. Xbox One is looking already in a state of collapse in Europe.

The UK is irrelevant. It would be nice to have good sales there but it is a small part of a much larger pie. Just a small percent of 750m+ population in N America, mainland EU and Japan can see it relatively successful.

I agree therefore that for Europe Nintendo need to push the wii u so it can be a second console to compliment many PS4 owners. It's sales in Europe are not miles behind the xbox one and I expect they will stay that way since there are no supply issues with xbox one there and it's price.


Uk is still pretty relevent, its the largest video game market in Europe and Europe as a whole is a very big market. At one point the UK was close to the retail level of game sales of Japan. Probably our rubbish weather means more people are likely to choose gaming as an entertainment medium. Uk is more of an open market probably not as polarised as mainland Europe.  I think Microsoft need to focus more on mainland Europe but Nintendo need to focus on the whole of Europe including UK.

Ultimately its brilliant to have 3 companies competing for our money. Sony look to be on firm ground so Nintendo and Microsoft will have to fight hard to make up lost ground in Europe. If Microsoft lose Europe as well as Japan it will be perceived as a US only console.