Wii U fails to reach 10 mil by E3

[MikeRox]

curl-6 said:

MikeRox said:

Go ahead and do that, it doesn't really change anything - According to VGC which has Dreamcast at 8.2m units to the general figure of 10.6m.

Wii U  - USA - 4.5m
Europe - 2.27m

Dreamcast - USA - 3.9m 
Europe - 1.91m

Even if you add that 12 months for Japan, the pace is about the same. I don't think there is any way it is possible for you to attempt to spin this in a positive light.

According to this graph, sourced from Famitsu, ( http://i.imgur.com/fXy4i.png ) DC sold 1.1m in it's first year in Japan. Take that away from it's total sales (which top out at 10.6m, though I'm informed that this figure is heavily overtracked it was actually around 9.3m) and you get a maximum (likely excessive) figure of 9.5m, which Wii U passed back in March. 

The actual figures probably put Dreamcast's post-first-year sales at around 8.2m, which Wii U passed some time ago.

Which again, doesn't put anything for Wii U in a positive light and doesn't alter the fact that SEGA announced it was discontinuing the Dreamcast 17 months into it's US life and 16 months into it's European life. Remember, those undertracked VGC sales (still a million lower than what you said) were likely from Europe as it's the region without accurate stat tracking and Western sales are still about where the Wii U is after 30+ months.

Anyway, not really any more to say on it so I'll leave it at that.