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eyeofcore on 05 February 2014
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pezus said:

eyeofcore said:

Okay... It will go a few more weeks over 100K+ than last year...

How can you be sure Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze won't do it? I mean, you see in Week 2 and Week 3 of 2014 are considerably better than Week 2 and Week 3 in 2013 by a good margin thus if things continue to go for the better then DKCTF has a chance to make Wii U sales break 100K+ for one week... Yoshi could do it also do it depending on when its released... Don't underestimate Hyrule Warriors... Musou games are very popular in Japan and have presence in USA and Europe so it has a good chance for week or two to make it break 100K+... X won't do it? Don't make me laugh... It is like saying Final Fantasy/good JRPG game won't make PlayStation 4 go over 100/200K+ for one or two weeks.

What fact? Fact that this year indeed begun well while you try to damage control that fact? Are you ignoring the fact that Wii U sales improved vastly in Week 2 and 3 of 2014 compared to 2013 and that only Week 1 of 2014 was slightly worse than one of 2013 yet when we combine sales of those three weeks of 2013 and 2014 then we see that 2014 is ahead by almost 10% and that is a noticeable jump in sales.

Problem is that people like you are failing to see the value... I would take Wii U any day over PlayStation 4 because the value is just too good to be true.

I can get complete experience from Nintendo for just 300$ while I would need to spend 510$ on Sony or 620 on Microsoft route before having actual fun.

We saw this last year, too. All of those games that were supposed to give WiiU a big boost, like Zelda, Pikmin, W101...none of them did much at all.

You are lying to yourself and you are wrong then I guess Wii U sales didn't went from 42198 units in Week 39 of 2013 to 74524 units in Week 40 of 2013 when The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD in a physical form which caused jump of 76% in sales from Week 39 to Week 40 of 2013. Also from Week 43(30737) to Week 44(77194) thanks Wii Party U which no one see that coming really... Not to mention that you are ignoring that Super Mario 3D World practically saved the holidays for Nintendo which you are ignoring otherwise it would have been a debacle.

TLOZ:TWWHD created a big spike, Wii Party U created even bigger spike and Super Mario 3D World alone carried the entire holiday on its own, these games gave Wii U "a big boost" yet you seem to ignore the statistics as if you suffer from confirmation bias. Saying that these games did nothing is utter fallacy.

Now the biggest guns that Nintendo has are going to be released, Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros U.

X is not remotely comparable to FF...

Monolith Soft was created by former Square Soft employees that worked on Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger and Cross, Front Mission, etc... Xenoblade Chronicles is considered to be one of the best RPG of seventh generation with being nominated and winning several awards in category of RPG's being proclaimed as best RPG of the year. Tetsuya Takahashi and Yasuyuki Honne are on of key people of Monolith Soft also Monolith Soft assists Nintendo in game development.

Xenoblade Chronicles holds 92 out of a 100, Final Fantasy XIII holds 82/83 out of a 100, Final Fantasy XIII-2 holds 79 out of a 100 on Metacritic and I wonder how Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will perform and there is already a review from Official Xbox Magazine which gives it 70 out of a100.

What?? How am I damage controlling? 40k per week is still horrendous (and it's still dropping week after week). It being up 8 or 9k YOY doesn't change that.

It is up from last year...

@underlined Is that something odd for you that hardware sales usually drop week after week for a few weeks in a row as holidays are over? 40000 per week is not bad, expect that is something new to you since apparently you can't comprehend that sales are as usual low early in the year. We will see if things really changed as games get released.

DOn't tell me "people like me" are failing to see the value. How is that relevant here? Clearly more people see value in PS4, so all this tells us is that you don't agree with the majority.

You are failing and you will keep failing like that majority, like they did with Dreamcast, like you did with Gamecube and like you actually do with Vita to keep it more real. At least people are now slowly start to see Vita's value as its sales rose, only thing that is now holding it back is those expensive propiertary SD cards from Sony.

Just because it is majority does not mean they are right... That is why you have minority controling majority.

And you're wrong about those prices. Plenty of good F2P games on PS4 where you can have great fun (where is that $510 coming from?). Getting PS Plus as well for $50 would ensure fun for a year (and more games, for free, than Nintendo releases for its consoles per year).

Nope... Read it again. Price Of A Console + Price Of a Subcription + Price Of A Single Game

Free 2 Play are games, but they aren't fully fledged or complete games, they are like those shareware games, also those games aren't "free" because if they were free then you would't be paying anything and paying a subscription to get those games means that they aren't free. That way of thinking is killing Vita, because of that developers don't bother to make games for Vita.

All those free games will sooner or later make people buy less games...

Edit: Btw, you should have the totals thus far in the OP too, so this year is easier to compare to last year.