How the Wii U could make a comeback

[QuintonMcLeod]

BeElite said:

QuintonMcLeod said:

BeElite said:1 More peopel gaming on more platforms is not market shrinking, Xbox and PS set all time records.  People just use the myth of marlet shrinking as a way to excuse wiiu sales failure.  

Sure they are down if you exclude digital lol.  Lets see how software sales when there some actual software to sale, or did you ecpect killzone and Titanfall to sael liek Uncharted and Halo ?

Xbox failure is easily explained, has nothing to do with any notion of people caring less about videogames.  PS4 is ahead of the PS2 in NA, likely far ahead in Europe due to gaming growth there.  Marlet is not shrinking, Nintedo just failed this gen and MS decided to shoot it self in the foot with a shootgun.

2 maybe, but focusing on females will not save wiiu sales.  

But the market is shrinking. Don't you even care to research this stuff?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/game-console-market-shrinking-185734511.html

http://www.statista.com/chart/2345/video-game-console-sales/

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/09/console-crisis/

A new report from market research firm NPD shows that only 29% of “core gamers” will purchase the next generation of gaming consoles right after they are released.

And then goes the xbox setting a record for its brand and PS4 sets all time console record.  LOL Guess only 29% is quite enough. 

And sales drop during a gen swich over, no way.

PS4 is ahead of PS2 in sales, X1 in not sure and once agian market contraction is only due to Wiius failure.  

Seems as though you missed this piece here:
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Here’s NPD’s official data on console market sales in North America for January 2007 – i.e. after the last generation of flagship consoles launched back in the 2006 holiday season:

Wii: 436,000
360: 294,000
PS3: 244,000
PS2: 299,000
NDS: 239,000
PSP: 211,000
GBA: 179,000
GC: 34,000

Add those numbers up and the total sales figure is just shy of 2 million.

Now here’s an equivalent list of sales for consoles this January (not an official list, since as noted above much of this data is not being officially released, but rather these figures are drawn from leaked NPD subscriber data – with further caveats being that NPD doesn’t like subscribers leaking its data so releases slightly different figures to try to identify leakers, hence the lack of concrete numbers for certain consoles):

PS4: 271,000
XB1: 141,000
3DS: ~97,000
PS3: ~53,500
Wii U: ~49,000
360: ~48,500
Vita: ~17,000

Add the January 2014 figures up and the tally is closer to 700,000. So that’s 2 million vs. ~700K — a very big market contraction, even if some of those sales figures are underestimates.