when will Wii U pass 7m?

[zorg1000]

Max King of the Wild said:

zorg1000 said:

Max King of the Wild said:

Aerys said:
People here are outside of the reality thinking Wii U will only reach 8M this year

With Mario Kart + maybe SSB + nintendo christmas, the console will reach 10M by the end of december

its been on the market for 17months and just hit 6m. I dont care what games are coming out. they will not cause 100% increase YoY in the last 8months

It sold 3.25 million in 2013, to reach 10 million it needs a total of 4.5 million this year which would be about 38% up YOY. Also there are 9 months left since we only have data thru April 5.

In the first 3 months of this year Wii U has sold 525k, its likely to do better next quarter with Mario Kart 8 releasing, 800k is not out of the question. Quarter 3 will probably be somewhere in between those so 650-700k which would put it at about 2 million with another 2.5 million over the holiday quarter (it did close to 2 million last holiday quarter).

10 million by the end of the year is not guaranteed but it is certainly possibly.

your numbers seem off but im on my vita. Nintendo shipped 3.06m at the endof decmber 2012. They just reached 6m shipped this year. How did they sell that much more than shipped?

Because Nintendo overshipped by alot during launch. If Vgchartz numbers are fairly accurate Wii U sold about 2.25 million by the end of 2012 so over 800k were unsold and it wasnt until late May that Wii U finally sold thru the initial launch shipments which is why we saw such low shipments in 2013.

Shipped vs sold

2012-3.09m vs 2.25m

2013-2.77m vs 3.25m

So again if Vgchartz numbers are fairly accurate there were only about 360k Wii U on store shelves at the end of 2013 compared to 840k at the end of 2012.