ICStats said:
MTZehvor said:
That's next to impossible. Nintendo's Q2 2014 financial report has Wii U at 7.29 million lifetime WW. Wii U would have to have more than doubled its first year sales in six months to meet that mark. Additionally, Nintendo's Q4 2012 financial report claims Wii U sold 3.45 million in 2012 alone, so the console would have to have sold 500 K or less over a 10 month span in order to wind up at 3.5 million for its first 12 months. Wii U didn't have strong legs, but it was nowhere near as bad as that.
VGSales Wiki has Wii U at 6.17 million after a full year, which admittedly isn't verified by anything official, but it's a much more reasonable number than assuming a console suddenly doubled its sales in half a year after only selling 500 K during the past 10 months.
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Official Nintendo shipped numbers:
Dec '12 3.06 million (Wii U launched November 18, '12)
Mar '13 3.45 million
Jun '13 3.61 million
Sep '13 3.91 million
Dec '13 5.86 million
Mar '14 6.17 million
Jun '14 6.68 million
Sep '14 7.29 million
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From what I know, these are the dates when the numbers were reported, and are reports for the quarter before and not up to that date.
But let's go with the numbers presented for the sake of argument. The line I bolded would be a full year (and maybe an extra couple of weeks) after the Wii U's launch. 5.86 million is much, much closer to 6 million than 3.5.
In an attempt to predict what I believe will be an incoming response, I should point out that both the financial reports and the sales wiki directly claim that these are units sold (and, yes, units sold to a consumer, not just to a retailer), not merely units shipped.
