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linkink on 31 May 2019
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RolStoppable said:
linkink said:

It's just not Wii U. WII, GC and N64 all sold horribly in japan. Wii not so much, but only 4-5 million more then the vita, is kinda pathetic when you think about it. Obviously japan prefers handheld, at the same time what if there was no Nintendo handheld how would japan get the nintendo fix they love? would a traditional console sell over 15 million? it's something we will never know.

EDIT: so I just found out vita outsold N64, and GC in japan. SMH.

I covered why the N64, GC, Wii and Wii U didn't exceed 15m units in Japan in this post:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9016438

The NES and SNES both sold more than 15m units, so we do know.

@curl-6 You got yourself under pressure regarding Wii U sales because you forgot to point out the large gaps between game releases that the console had. It was common for the Wii U to go more than one month without any retail release and that only got worse over time.

N64, GC, AND WII U  sold like pile of turd. Sure, it's understandable  not to exceed 10-15, but not even exceed 5.6 million with how loved Nintendo ip's are is  shocking to me.

The NES, had 0 competition. you could almost say the same  for SNES, genesis was it's very weak competition, it only sold 17 million, this was when nintendo had amazing third-party support as well. Once playstation came into the picture is a much better way to judge, since that's the only other console in japan to do descent number. So yea we will never know.