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eyeofcore on 11 February 2014
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Seece said:
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January last year was 57k in US, this year VGC has 109k? Why the 100% YoY increase?

Down 38k YOY in Japan, it's possible that WiiU is down WW as well.

I assume WW is World Wide.... This thread compares 2013 with 2014 World Wide/Global sales of the Wii U... Week 1 to Week 5 of 2014 is 14.3+ % up from Week 1 to Week 5 of 2013.

Yes it is, and I think it's overtracked. I don't see any reason WiiU would be up in US (and Europe for that matter) so much YoY. NPD is this Thursday so we'll find out.

You make me laugh... Oh boy... You are one of those narrow minded individuals...

Why it would't? It has now a well enstablished library of games, a lot of exclusives are out now and more are coming this year...

I guess you forgot Super Mario 3D World got released in November and games from Nintendo have "long legs"...

I smell denial...

I'm narrow minded because I think it's overtracked (which this site has a tendancy for?) Ok then. Nope...

You are narrow minded because you ignore now well enstablished library with over 100-150+ games with a lot of exclusives that are out now and that are going to be released... Wii U's 300$ SKU is not 8GB storage without any bundled games anymore, now it is 32GB storage with one or two games bundled... Nintendo now markets its console more agressively than before...

I guess you don't understand concept of changes, things change and situations change like it happened with PlayStation 3 and with 3DS... "Miracles" happen... DS was expect to flop and it sold gangbusters and so did Wii.

Just because Wii U sold poorly/badly does not mean that sales won't improve and that the trend would continue...

I smell backtracking come thursday ... the only time WiiU has managed over 100k is in a holiday month. It was barely up YOY in Dec, (21k I believe) which is about 4%? Yet you think it's perfectly normal for it to be up 95% YoY in January.

Just because Wii U managed 100K only in holiday months does not mean that it can't do that this year before holiday months... Are you intentionally ignoring exclusives that will be out on Wii U? The increased value that it has now than year before it got a price drop for its "Deluxe" SKU that is now primary SKU while "Basic" SKU is practically discontinued... It has an appealing library of games... Do you have Monster Hunter on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No... Do you have Nintendo franchises on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No... Do you have Bayonetta 2, Sonic Boom, FAST Racing Neo on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No...

Things change... If things don't change then Wii would still keep selling gangbusters and PlayStation 3 would continued to have poor sales, 3DS would have been in bad position and Xbox 360 would still have a considerable lead over PlayStation 3...