Will Wii U hit 10 million by the end of the year?

[TheWPCTraveler]

Seece said:

TheWPCTraveler said:

Seece said:
Well, WiiU certainly isn't doing 60k+ a week like VGC has been showing, NPD is out.

You've got to give them credit for it, though. Two months without a new release and still going strong at a ~20k/week baseline in America. That means VGChartz has overtracked Wii U by ~30k in July.

I see the baseline falling further in August, to ~15k+, but see it reaching back to these levels in September.

Oh, and here's a curious snippet of info: According to Media Create, sales of Wii U jumped to 13.5k in a pre-Hyrule WarriorsZelda Musou week. Not really a lot, but every bit counts if you're Nintendo.

It's all low numbers we're talking here, and MK hasn't done anything near what it should have/was suppose to do. But yeah, for a system with only 1 notable game releasing in the Q (July -September, Hyrule being late September) it's quite good I guess.

Still, looks like they will ship same as Q2 or less. Certainly not 60k a week which amounts to 780k sold .. (and we're already overtracked as it is.)

I really think Nintendo has bet way too much on the impending Smash effect, though, so I think we'll see the brunt of the sales post-October, when the hype train intensifies. Thats if the 3DS version of Smash is good.

Yeah, slight boosts for every game they release bar Hyrule WarriorsZelda Musou, which should allow the Wii U to stand proudly in Japan for a couple weeks.