midrange said:
Goodnightmoon said:
midrange said:
Goodnightmoon said:
Why is everybody predicting that WiiU will be down from the last year? It was at 245k on November, exactly the same as the last year, but this time wiiu didnt had Smash Bros, and still got those numbers anyways. This december Xenoblade Chronicles X was released, last year was Captain Toad, and while both will have probably similar sales at the end of their lifes, XCX will sell systems, Captain Toad didn't. So it looks like WiiU would be at least the same as the last year, close to 600k.
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Nintendo had a lot more than smash leading into the holidays last year. There was hyrule warriors, captain toad, and bayonetta 2 as well. Not only is xenoblade x a far weaker franchise than smash bros, it's working alone with the last major title having been super mario maker back in early September. The bigger question is why would it be up. Xeno x wont be as big as smash and the ps4 and Xbox one are considerably stronger than last year
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I repeat my argument: WiiU has done the SAME numbers on Novemeber than last year, and without any relevant release this time. And last year all games you mentioned (except Captain Toad) were already released in or before November, specially Smash Bros on that same month, yet is doing the same numbers this year. This year WiiU has for holidays Splatoon (that is still selling like cupcakes and is having a similar effect than MK8 selling consoles), Super Mario Maker, Yoshi's Woolly World and on December is releasing XCX a game that, even if does not have big sales, sells consoles, not like the last year december game Captain Toad, so if November was like the last year, why is not gonna be December too? Why is going to fall suddlenly to 400k? Why is everybody predicting way less than last year? I didn't say it is going to be higher, I said it must be around the same, so around 580k.
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The wii u is doing the same because they actually had a great bundle. Splatoon and Super Smash bros (both well known and solid games) for $250 is great value. Add in the fact that other places like target had it even lower at $220 and it makes sense that the wii u kept up with last year, when the wii u only had a mario kart bundle at $300.
It was surprising that the wii u did not sell far better numbers than last year.
Not only is the smash/splatoon bundle out for december (low stock or higher price), but Xenoblade X is not enough to push the wii u more than smash bros did last year.
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And who said it would push it MORE, because I said twice that it should do the same, not more. Yes this year WiiU had a bundle of 2 old games (one from May 2015, other from Nov 2014) for November, however last year it had one of the biggest Nintendo IPs ever on November, who is bigger? obviously Smash, Wiiu did the same on 2015 with not a single big game on November, to expect more is just not very smart. And on December the bundled will keep selling anyways btw.
If VGC numbers are relieable (I know they are a hit and miss usually) then WiiU has already sold close to 100k on its first week of December, and this is a 5 weeks month this year and the next 3 weeks sales are going to get bigger and bigger as always. There is not a single real reason to believe the console will be under 500k, yet that's what a lot of predictions here said just few hours ago (yes, some people has now changed their predictions, I wonder why), and in general there are no big reasons to believe it will be significatively lower than the 580k of the last year.
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