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Mummelmann on 11 February 2014
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brute said:
Seece said:

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.


You were the one claiming that December was overtracked, and as it turned out it was infact undertracked. Now you're doing the same thing for January eh?

Also in December of 2012 was it launch period, ofcourse it would sell well than, compare December 2013 to November 2013 and you'll see that all those factored in it having the biggest increase from all consoles( Percentage wise ofcourse).


And the 360 was up about 140% for its second December (700k launch Dec, 1.7 mill the following), the PS3 sold about 750k launch Dec and about 2.2 million following December (close to 200% up yoy). Wii did about 1.9 mill in launch Dec and then about 3.6 million the following December (about 90-95% up). 4% up for the second December is atrocious regardless of circumstances and certainly not the norm.
100% increase yoy in NA seems excessive, we'll know for sure within the week at any rate, especially with Japan being down a fair bit in the same period despite a strong holiday, Japan often has a better January due to gift giving traditions over new year's.

And of course it had the biggest percentage wise increase; the baseline was incredibly low to begin with. All that shows is that the console has serious issues maintaining any kind of monentum outside of holidays, this is hardly good news. A massive percentage wise increase speaks more of the rest of the year than the holidays.

It's not impossible that Japanese numbers are entirely meaningless for comparisons though; it has become a highly volatile market for all consoles. NPD will give us a pointer at the very least.