Will the Switch outsell the Wii?

[Miyamotoo]

Barkley said:

Miyamotoo said:

They shipped 3m and that's ofical number, Nintendo always using ship number, Wii U is currently at 13.5m shiped consoles also.

Which is a terrible metric to gauge whether a launch is "very good" or not. Because it doesn't matter how many you ship if they don't sell. It's fair enough using Shipped for LTD sales, but for a launch... use consumer sales. They could have shipped 5m in 2012, wouldn't have made the launch any better. The WiiU did not have a good launch.

Agree, but Wii U launch was good or mediocre (not great or bad), in any case, terrible sales started after solid launch, and thats whats important in this talk.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/11/how-successful-was-the-wii-u-launch

Last edited by Miyamotoo - on 29 March 2018