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Forums - Sales - Wii U sold 40K units during UK launch (CONFIRMED)

ninetailschris on 03 December 2012
spurgeonryan said:
Basically selling out in th UK is actually really good imo. Why should they ship that many units there after all the UK have put them through?


China attacking Nintendo's wiiu factory.

 



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Train wreck on 03 December 2012
ninetailschris said:
spurgeonryan said:
Basically selling out in th UK is actually really good imo. Why should they ship that many units there after all the UK have put them through?


China attacking Nintendo's wiiu factory.

 

um the factory is in japan though...

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/10/factory_fire_will_not_affect_wii_u_production

and they said it wont affect prodcution, so is Nintendo lying?



routsounmanman on 03 December 2012
Mummelmann said:

I don't understand the basic bundle at all, its incredibly unattractive next to the premium one. The market seems to agree with me on this one as well, sales tell us as much. I'm fairly certain they'll faze it out of the market pretty soon and launch one more bundle slightly above or slightly below premium for a decent price. Probably around when the console becomes profitable, which won't be too long.

Did anyone on vgchartz buy the basic Wii U? Will anyone do it? I won't even consider it, for only 50$ more, the premium is a steal.


I did; hate the black color and fingerprints, and didn't want NL at all. I bought Mass Effect 3 instead, and absolutely love it.



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kopstudent89 on 03 December 2012

Too early to call. I'll attribute this to two things, low supply of Wii U's is evident, and a mediocre campaign at most. Not many know what the Wii U is :|



Rab on 03 December 2012

Roughly a 1000 units per million people in both the US and UK launches

Anyway sold out is good, low supply is bad



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IIIIITHE1IIIII on 03 December 2012
Galaki said:
So, Nintendo bombed so hard they can't sell all the WiiU units they didn't ship?


Nailed it.



Argh_College on 03 December 2012

People can get 360s or Ps3s, superior consoles for lower prices with much better games and a giant games catalog...



Veknoid_Outcast on 03 December 2012
Argh_College said:
People can get 360s or Ps3s, superior consoles for lower prices with much better games and a giant games catalog...

Isn't that true of every launch? Are you just making a point that no one should buy any new console within the first 18 months?



Sh1nn on 03 December 2012
scottie said:
C-M-D said:
Yikes! That's significantly worse than the Vita's launch numbers. (64k)


1) That was 4 days for Vita vs 2 for Wii U

 

3 days not 2. Wii U launched on friday.



scottie on 03 December 2012
pezus said:
scottie said:
C-M-D said:
Yikes! That's significantly worse than the Vita's launch numbers. (64k)


1) That was 4 days for Vita vs 2 for Wii U

2) Vita then dropped to 17k the next (full) week. If Wii U has stock available, it will be well ahead of 17k

3) UK as a basis for comparison will always help Sony consoles over Nintendo ones.

2) Well I would hope it doesn't drop much because of the holidays. Vita launched early this year and had no holiday sales to help it.

3) Why is that? 


2) This is true, but not really relevant is it.

 

3) Because Sony consoles always do quite well in the UK compared to how they do in the rest of the world, and Nintendo consoles always do quite poorly in the UK compared to the rest of the world.

 

Anyway, I'm out of this thread because speculation at this point is useless. Nintendo shipped a few tens of thousands, and sold a few tens of thousands. Whether each of us believes that Nintendo shipped that low number because they were anticipating low demand, or if it was because they weren't able to ship lots of consoles for the UK launch without causing serious supply constraints in USA/Japan (or delaying the UK launch), is entirely going to be decided by whether you own a Wii, or a PS360, and not be rational analysis of the few facts we have.