jlmurph2 said:
celador said:
Pikmin 3 doubled hardware sales in Japan and caused a 79% increase in hardware sales in the US. Windwaker HD led to a 685% in hardware sales in the UK. Neither are as big as Mario Kart, and it may be a short term boost but Wii U hardware will see significant increase for a few weeks when that game launches. And like I said, at it's current rate, Xbox One will take until late in the year to surpass Wii U even if Nintendo's system sells nothing.
And yes, third party support is important, and is one of the main reasons that X1 will undoubtedly overtake Wii U, but in my opinion not this year. Also, while there are plenty of other third party games coming, out of the ones you mentuoned neither Watch Dogs or Destiny will give any kind of sizeable boost to X1 sales given that Sony has exclusive marketing deals, betas and bundles with those IPs.
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Its easy to have a huge boost when you're selling 20-40k a week worldwide.
Plus the Wii U was selling less than 1000 units in UK. That "huge boost" made HW sales end up less than 5000
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A boost is a boost, I wasn't going to look around and try to find out how every big game increased hardware sales in every country, but I think it's safe to assume most if not all other territories saw hardware increases when those games I mentioned launched. Wii U getting some hardware boosts from software was my secondary point anyway. My primary point was that at it's current rate and without Wii U selling a single unit, Xbox One wouldn't overtake Wii U for another six months. No one has responded to that yet.
