Pachter Predicts 3 Million Global 2014 Sales for Wii U

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t3mporary_126 said:

Mummelmann said:

Soundwave said:

I think he's lowballing it, I would say probably 4.25-5 million for the full year (which will be the peak year for the Wii U IMO, it will sink back down in 2015 and get downright ugly in 2016).

That sounds a lot more reasonable to me. I'm banking on about 4.5 million or so myself.

I don't know. Even though 4.5 million is only 1.268 million more than 2013's sales, that's a 39.23% increase of 2013 sales. With the small momentum Wii U has now, this will be really impressive but also a little unbelievable.

I guess that's where I'm coming from - I think that, in much of 2013, people didn't realize how unsupported the Wii U would be. I think most of its sales will be in the holiday season, as presents for kids by parents who don't know and don't care about its woes, and that a lot of the normal gaming audience who would make up its sales (as well as the trendy audience of people who made up a lot of Wiis sales) just won't get it now that they know it's a bust.

If you think articles about people in Nursing homes playing bowling helped get a lot of people to buy Wiis (hint: they totally did) then why wouldn't you think a ton of articles about Nintendo losing money and the Wii U being a failure are going to talk people out of it?