Azhraell on 21 February 2014
| Shadow1980 said: Adding Japan's sales for the Wii U is kind of unfair, don't you think? And I'm saying this as someone who's been a huge Nintendo fan for 25 years. I Played With Power (regular, Portable, and Super), I Played It Loud, and I Changed The System. But even I realize that in a per-region case, the Wii U isn't doing well. The only place it has a chance of beating the XBO is Japan. Nintendo has once again been reduced to niche status in the home console arena. If you subtract Japanese Wii U sales, then combined Wii U sales for NA+EU in Jan. 2013 was something like 110-120k, about half of combined NA+EU sales for the XBO last month. Of course, even then most of the XBO's sales are in America, and in the U.S. it's no contest (145k for the XBO vs. 56k for the Wii U last January), and IIRC last year's Jan. was a 5-week NPD). The XBO didn't do too terribly better last month in Europe than the Wii U did in January (76k for the XBO vs. 54k for the Wii U), but this is Europe we're talking about, as historically they're PlayStation Country. But in any case, if you go by total global sales, the XBO still had a far better first January than the Wii U. I don't like it any more than you do, but the numbers don't lie: even though it's getting its butt kicked by the PS4, like, everywhere, the XBO is still performing strongly enough in the U.S. to boost global sales ahead of Wii U levels, and that's with the Xbox brand being relevant in only two of the three major regions. |
This. I couldn't agree more.
