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tak13 on 18 June 2016
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oniyide said:
tak13 said:

Yeah! Falling from the 3.2m shipments to  only 800k in the current fiscal year, because NX anticipation/wii u premature abandoning!

The 14m isn't representantive for the wii u, it had still some potential, sales could  be more, ( perhaps 16-18m) , if Nintendo wanted to keep it  and try a bit more, but  they  wanted to get rid of the it  as soon as possible, all of their moves manifested that...

The hell, they had extremely well holidays last year in Japan thanks to splatoon ( mainly ) and super mario maker! They didn't attempt at  all  to retain that momentum or fix the shortages that the unexpected huge sales for Nintendo, had caused...

woulda, coulda, shoulda and IMHO 16-18mil isnt anything to be proud of either. There really wasnt anything left to push it to those sales IMO. Zelda's good but it doesnt move that much consoles. Its crazy, it wasnt that long ago there were countdown threads to when WIi U would beat Vita and it looks like it wont even do that.

All other sources have wii u way above psv, only vgc disagrees but even vgc would show wii u ahead if they hadn't made a misguided ( due to a misunderstanding ) huge adjustment up for psv back in 2015, which also has inflated psv sales tracking since then !

However, don't be husty, if there will be any  considerable  source again that shows big difference with current vgc numbers, ioi has informed  me that he will adjusted psv down, essentially, he will bring were it would be without the huge adjustment up...

( 11m+-12m)

Anyway, long discussion, we have exhausted this topic! 

Anywise, this battle doesn't matter, wherefore sony is hiding psv sales...Sony may  silently discontinue it in the west but vgc won't  be aware of that and  will be still tracking it! PSV tracking is a big trouble for vgc! Microsoft is hiding xbox one sales too but at least in that case you can  have an update about the sales from AMD, EA and others , who give ps4+xbox one sales estimate  and with ps4 sales figure by sony we deduce xbox one sales from that aggregate!

Perhaps, if sony retains psv  for a long time ( because it's probably their last handheld console ) with the support in Japan, it could surpass wii u...