WiiU outselling the Vita

[Farsala]

RolStoppable said:

Farsala said:

Just because I am curious.

End of 2015:

US Wii U 5m, Vita 2.5m

Japan Wii U 3m, Vita 4.5m

Spain (June 2015) Wii U>100k, Vita >700k

Gap: Wii U <400k

Q1 2016:

Japan Wii U 110k, Vita 296k

US Wii U 175k, Vita ~44k

Gap: Vita by 55k

 

In 3 countries Wii U only leads by <345k. I think Vita sales in Spain for rest of year and Portugal and many other rest of world sales are much much higher then Wii U.

For example 1: Wii U has not launched in China but Vita has.

Example 2: Vita launched in Brazil march 2012, Wii U launched Nov 2013 (1 year after launch, 1 year 9 months after Vita) and ended Jan 2015.

Example 3: In fact Nintendo has very little presence in all of Latin America, including the large market of Mexico.

I think you would be very hard pressed to say that Wii U has outsold Vita.

There are notable markets like France and Germany where the Wii U does rather well in comparison to the countries where its sales are abysmal. Conversely, the Vita does horribly there.

The shipment estimate I talked about was ~11m for the Vita by the end of September 2015. The Wii U was at 10.7m at that point.

Wii U might have little to no presence in the markets you mentioned, but not even the PS4 sold a lot in China, and the Latin American countries have high taxes on video games, so consoles sell all that great. That goes doubly so for systems that aren't popular to begin with. And while the Wii U might not be sold in Brazil anymore, recently we learned that the Vita is over in the Netherlands. The same should hold true for Switzerland where GfK (or whatever the official tracker is) stopped to release Vita software charts in October 2015. In Germany the Vita hasn't had a title in the overall top 100 in a long time, so there are strong indicators that the Sony handheld has been as good as dead in Central Europe for a while now. Basically, what the Wii U doesn't have in America and Asia is offset by what the Vita doesn't have in Europe.

But back to shipments, the Wii U sold almost 1.9m during the holiday quarter last year. Vita maybe 1m, who knows. It's more likely than not that the Wii U is ahead of the Vita, but of course there's no way to know for sure.

@bold how much more do you think France/ Germany Wii U sold compared to Vita?

The Spanish (and Portugese) gap cannot be ignored in terms of total Europe sales. It would be hard for Wii U to topple that with the other countries.

The difference between Brazil and Netherlands/switzerland is that Brazil is a much bigger market. Brazil/Mexico/ China are decently big markets and surely have Vita leads.

@italics even if this shipment gap is true, it would only point to Europe as being stronger for Vita then Wii U due to the vast difference in sales in the US.