Why is the GameCube selling better than the Wii U???

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Yakuzaice said:

bowserthedog said:

And January 2015 was bigger than January 2014 and looks like the same will be said of February.  Also a great software lineup this year and a likely pricecut coming.

Right now I'm estimating that the wiiu will sell around 26 million lifetime. It's based on the rule of thumb with Nintendo consoles that at the end of peak sales year the system will have sold approx 50% of lifetime sales. If 2014 was peak year then it likely won't catch cube. But I think this year will be peak.

January in the US was up.  In Japan it was down.  Between the two it was down.  Though the Japanese decline YoY in February is smaller, so that may be more balanced out if VGC sales are close to reality.  Europe, as far as I know, doesn't have any sales info for 2015 other than VGC.  It could be trending like the US, but I try not to take VGC numbers on face value.

26m wouldn't even be the "at least 6 million" that you said though.  That does seem like a more realistic (if still a bit optimistic) expectation.

I'm basing everything on vgchartz.  2015 january vgchartz were up year over year worldwide. And so far 100,000 in feb for 2 weeks.  I take comparing vg chartz to vg chartz at face value. If i didn't respect vg chartz i'd probably not talk about game sales on vgchartz.