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MTZehvor on 04 March 2017
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ICStats said:
MTZehvor said:

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.

Those dates are not when they're reported, they're shipments through that date.  They are reported after the date.  Read the financial releases.

The line you bolded is not a full year, it a full year plus a second holiday.  Counting 13.5 months as one year sales is wrong.  Counting 13.5 months including two Decembers as one year sales is very very wrong.

If you want to get any kind of accurate one year (12 months) I would count first 12 months November-to-November which would be around 3.9 million, or first full calendar year January-to-January which is 2.8 million shipped.  Or you know, keep thinking Wii U ever sold 6 million in a year.

Let's run with that logic for the sake of argument, then. Let's assume the Wii U sold a full two million during the holiday season (going January to January is entirely unfair, as that cuts out the launch period, which the Switch does have). Assuming that is the case, it would unfair to not include the second holiday season, as the Switch will have a launch boost and a holiday boost in the same year. Perhaps sticking in the first two weeks of Wii U sales (500 K or so) and then combining it with the usual holiday. Point is, it's unfair to just use a sole holiday season post launch when Switch's first year will include both launch day and holiday.

And that's assuming the Wii U sold 2 million during a holiday season where its biggest release in a two month span was Sonic Lost World.