Has Wii U Reached Full Market Saturation?

[Skullwaker]

tak13 said:

Skullwaker said:

tak13 said:

I still think that 2015 will be its peak with all these new games, especially USA'S beloved zelda,plus mario kart 8 smash bros retrospective boost!2014 cannot be its peak year because for the first 5 months of 2014 was selling poorly and then mario kart 8 came...!
I m implying that for the same period in 2015 will be yoy up and why not for the rest of the year...!
So we have to wait to see if there will be new baselines!I used plural because I mean monthly new baseline,i.e in comparison with what it was selling each month in 2014.
Mario kart set wii u at 60k for 3 months and then wii u fell to 40k because of games drought but didn't sell 20k+ like last year...!
January will be the test-drive month...

I definitely agree with this. I think 2015 will be the peak year. Smash + MK8 will have bumped the baseline, and there will be many more exclusive releases next year, which will provide boosts themselves (Splatoon, Mario Maker, Yoshi, Star Fox, Xenoblade, etc.). And of course Zelda will give a boost in the US. I'm hopeful sales will improve overall next year. Won't be gangbusters, but it will be better.

Thank you!I will repeat that the first five months of wii u in 2014 were a disaster and then  mk8 came which changed the things significantly!If mario kart 8 had released in January the situation would be quite different!Leastwise the first months of 2015 will have higher sales than those of 2014,it is inevitabe with mario kart 8 and smash bros not huge but handsome momentum...!

Given mario kart 8 still active boost even if it isn't big anymore plus smash bros,the almost monthly releases of games in 2015 and the main system seller at least for USA zelda,wii u will have a better perfomance in 2015!Most of these games will give a temporal and not even a big boost but an important one or better they will prevent a sharp drop!(Mario kart 8 even after months didn't let wii u to go back to 20k  fo 2013 in the months of drought)

A price cut in the end of 2015 will help a lot(Not making miracles),okay gc with its price cuts (two consecutive price drops in 2002/2003 by 50$ respectively)didn't skyrocket  as many say which is true but would it have sell 22m without them...?

That's a very good point actually. The pricecuts of the GC didn't make it sell like hotcakes, but who's to say they didn't prevent it from plummeting to its demise? I think the inevitable pricecut will give a healthy boost for the Wii U and will help extend its life. Nothing more, nothing less.