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midrange on 12 December 2015
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Goodnightmoon said:
midrange said:

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.

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.

@bolded: that's not a very reliable assessment.

Last year smash was selling a lot because it is a big ip. It moved consoles (way more than xenoblade x can), but a bundle with 2 games at $50-$80 less than usual is going to do better than what smash does alone (it simply has more value to it since they are dropping the price of both the console and 2 games). November should have sold a huge amount more than last year.

Those bundles will be limited in stock and they won't be at similar prices compared to black friday and cyber monday. Without those bundles, the wii u only has xenoblade x, which is small compared to smash bros.

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

I am literally giving reasons as to why people think it will sell worse this december compared to last year (biggest one being lack of price drop/system seller). Whether you agree with them or not is your issue.