zorg1000 said:
that is shipments, not sell through. Notice how terrible those Q1/Q2 2013 shipments are? Thats because they had so much excess stock at the end of 2012. According to NPD+Media Create, there was over 500k units sitting on store shelves in America+Japan. The region Nintendo labels Others was even worse, they had shipped 900k at the end of Dec 2012 and by Sept 2013 shipments had only grown to 1.01 million. Thats just over 100k in 9 months and they actually had negative shipments (retailers sending units back) over the summer. There had to have been a few 100k units on store shelves at the end of 2012. So based on all that, we can conclude that sell through for Wii U at the end of 2012 was much closer to 2 million which lines up well with Vgchartz numbers of 2.17 million as of Dec 29, 2012. |
I was actually referring to shipments but remember the huge issue of stock sitting on shelves at the time. Again that is still possible if Switch sales drop off sharply even if the timescale is different or the cliff edge happens at a different point. It still feels like a product that has less reasons to buy it than much of the competition for now at least. Whatever it will be interesting to watch it unfold if nothing else.
