| Ryng_Tolu said:
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 |
By the same token, the only market that we know is up is the US.
French and US sales aren't intrinsically linked. It is entirely possible for them to match growth rates one year and differ the next. Also, last year European Wii U sales as a whole grew by a larger percentage than the US did. So it is not outside the realm of possibility that the pullback this year could be more severe than in the US.
Based on the shipment numbers, if it is undertracked in Germany it just means somewhere else in Europe or RoW is overtracked.
NPD will give us some additional insight, but I think it will be difficult to directly link to European sales. Like what if Mario Party does worse in the US (than in Europe), but Wii U sales are up even more than 20% YoY. Does that mean Wii U European sales should be even higher? What if Mario Party does incredibly well, but Wii U sales are down 5%. Should that mean European sales are even worse?
