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jetforcejiminy on 15 January 2015
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Seece said:
jetforcejiminy said:
Seece said:
Ruler said:
I think if price is lower the wiiu could easily outsell the x1 @400$ price point.

In the US??

ww it did for most of the summer, in europe and japan for almost all of it post mk8 and in the us for a while too. the xbone could not sell at $499. it could not even sell at $399. and microsoft saw it crashing with their little trial balloon promotion's-over nonsense, and lowered the price indefinitely (which means forever, until they lower it again for the holidays to $299 because even at $349 it fails to gain any market share in what is ostensibly its best market, the us, against the ps4).

I actually made a thread about this misconception but ioi closed it then a mod made a jab about it being useless news. Evidently it should have stayed open to inform people. Those months quickly dwindled after WiiU adjustments came in, down to a matter of weeks.

The thread is US not WW, and XB1 was at its lowest whilst WiiU just had MK.

i didn't say us exclusively, the first two letters in my post are in fact two w's. and throughout late may and part of june, it did outsell the xbox one in the us. this is not a misconception. it also outsold it for longer in europe... this, too, is not a misconception. anyway, it's at $150 less with two free aaa games and it still can't gain any market share against ps4 in its best (and, besides the humble little island of britain, really only good) market... this is not exactly a tour de force, seece. whether you can recognize that or not doesn't change the fact that it's not.

haqqaton said:
Seece said:

PS4 and XB1 sales would have simply flipflopped. WiiU has never come close to beating XB1 since it launched, throughout all it's various price points it's had.


I think you're wrong: http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41791/USA/

Globally, in that week, the picture is Wii U winning by ~90k.

yup, was just about to link to that too. and these:

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41798/Global/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41805/Global/

for the rest of june they were almost at parity, within 10k of one another.