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FayeC on 14 December 2014
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Aquietguy said:
FayeC said:
Aquietguy said:
MoHasanie said:
The Wii U is in its peak years and is performing so poorly. PS5 will come out in 2019 so I doubt Nintendo would wait that long.

I agree with the author on this. There is no need for Nintendo's next console until the PS5 and XBox2. The U is doing fine and will continue it's sells trend. There will be price drops making it more attractive to non Wii U owners. All Nintendo has to do is bring the games. And make sure they increase develpoment teams to make sure they have games ready for the Wii U successor.


This isn't really true tho. Its doing better than last year for sure, but between how bad last years sales were, and the release of what are likely to be Nintendo's biggest console games of the generation, that should be the case. If this was the start of a climb then things might be looking better, but this is more likely the peak of Wii U sales.

I just can't see this as peak. It's still selling at $300.  We knon price drops will come. There are alot of people on the fence. Some will adopt at $250. Others will at $200. By then the games will be there and we don't know all the games lined up. We got Captain Toad and Splatoon is coming. Both are new IP's. We still don't know what they have up their sleaves. Nintendo needs to ride out the U until the next round of consoles. And they can cause it will be viable till then.


Price drops will help sales for a few weeks, but after a short time they will fall back to what they were before the price drop, this time with less profit per unit. While we don't know the full game lineup, we can assume with a reasonable degree of certainty that its nothing near Mario Kart or SSB in sales potential.

I'm pretty sure the month SSBB's release still holds the NPD record for the all time high console sales in a non holiday month, so its sales potential is not to be taken lightly. I atribute the major difference between last holiday's Wii U sales and this years to it, rather than some sort of new baseline.