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Ryng on 16 April 2015
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Yakuzaice said:
Ryng_Tolu said:

I will be fast.

In the lifetime sales, Wii U is correct or even overtracked, BUT is not because the Europe.

Wii U is overtracked in the US lifetime by 200,000 unit... that is why usually Wii U VGC sales are too close to the Nintendo shipment.

Now, seem that Wii U is DOWN YOY in Europe... why this?

There is no sense for be down YOY in Europe, we have +20% YOY in the US, and the gap is gonne to increase this NPD, so, how can in Europe be down, if we considering that usually the Europe is the market with the bigger legs?

US sales didn't factor into my calculations.  If it is overtracked by 200k in the US, that is in addition to the numbers I outlined for Europe/RoW.

VGC has the Wii U up YoY in Europe for this week though.  By 14.4%.  It does seem like it was down in previous weeks, but not by much.  I'm not sure how the bigger legs argument factors in here.  That is usually in regards to software.  Nintendo hardware doesn't really seem to follow that.  Gamecube sales fell much more quickly in Europe than in the US.  There is also the factor that their most recent big software release (Smash) is much more popular in the US than in Europe.

As for now, the only market when Wii U is down YOY is the Japan, but Wii U was down even in 2014.

I can make a camparation with the france... In France the Wii U sales are rise by 35% in 2014 compared to 2013 (178,000 to 240,000), equal to the US sales.

So, if for now is up YOY in US, by 20% seem probabily that even in France we have a similar scenario... of course, France is not intere Europe, and but if you look the VGChartz numbers for Germany, Wii U is undertracked. (around 20,000)

The last official numbers was Wii U at 350,000 in half of August, VGChartz said 330,000 in the same period. Indeed i think that actually Wii U is undertracked in Germany.

 

As for now i don't have official numbers for said that Wii U is undertracked, but this Europe numbers seem just too low... This NPD can expand the Wii U situation for the US, and will help to estimate the Europe sales imo. :D