So Mario Kart 8 Isn't Going To Give The Wii U Even 1 Month At 100k+ In The US?

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Soundwave said:

rik said:

Soundwave said:

TheLegendaryWolf said:
It's summer, video games' slowest time of the year.

Then lets compare to the GameCube during it's exact same point in its lifecycle (summer 2003):

June 03 - 124k

July 03 - 126k

August 03 - 100k

September 03 - 165k

The sad thing is I'm not sure the *3DS* can even match some of these numbers this summer, let alone the Wii U. 

Gamecube was like 99 bucks thats pocketmoney for most working people. You just bought it on a whim it was soo cheap. It still sold fairly bad though but made a profit (unlike xbox and ps).

It wasn't $99 until fall 2003 though. And factoring in inflation and the fact that it didn't include a free game too brings the comparision more into balance. It was also competing against PS2 and XBox which were also cheaper than a PS4/X1. 

Though it's probably fair to say, Nintendo will be fairly shy about releasing anything above $200-$250 ever again. 

Yeah i owned a ngc ps2 and xbox back then and actually gc and xbox were the better consoles imo and they both sold less then 25mill. 360 and.ps3 were better then wii but ps4 xone and wii u seem closer again. Oh yeah i had dreamcast too not bad either sega just ran out off money