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How has the Wii U performed so far?

It's doing spectacular! I'm blown away! 126 10.09%
 
It's doing really good, can't complain. 418 33.47%
 
It's doing good, not as ... 269 21.54%
 
Could have been better... 176 14.09%
 
It's doing poorly; Wii did much better! 127 10.17%
 
Still can't believe they... 133 10.65%
 
Total:1,249
Solid-Stark on 22 December 2012

Its doing well, except in Europe.



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DanneSandin on 22 December 2012
Solid-Stark said:
Its doing well, except in Europe.

+1



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Solid-Stark on 22 December 2012
DanneSandin said:
Solid-Stark said:
Its doing well, except in Europe.

+1

What troubles me is what the reason is for such a mediocre launch in Europe. I want to belive gamers are waiting for more exclusives or just third party games in general. But it looks like gamers in Europe would rather buy PS3's than the nexer next gen WiiU.

Nintendo will be fine in the U.S. and Japan. But, if we jump the gun now, EU will cripple the WiiU long term.



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DanneSandin on 22 December 2012
Solid-Stark said:
DanneSandin said:
Solid-Stark said:
Its doing well, except in Europe.

+1

What troubles me is what the reason is for such a mediocre launch in Europe. I want to belive gamers are waiting for more exclusives or just third party games in general. But it looks like gamers in Europe would rather buy PS3's than the nexer next gen WiiU.

Nintendo will be fine in the U.S. and Japan. But, if we jump the gun now, EU will cripple the WiiU long term.

Yeah, we can point at the economic crisis, no good exclusives or whatever, but I guess we can only wait and see how the next gen from MS/Sony will do, and judge Wii U by those numbers



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Solid-Stark on 22 December 2012
DanneSandin said:
Solid-Stark said:
DanneSandin said:
Solid-Stark said:
Its doing well, except in Europe.

+1

What troubles me is what the reason is for such a mediocre launch in Europe. I want to belive gamers are waiting for more exclusives or just third party games in general. But it looks like gamers in Europe would rather buy PS3's than the nexer next gen WiiU.

Nintendo will be fine in the U.S. and Japan. But, if we jump the gun now, EU will cripple the WiiU long term.

Yeah, we can point at the economic crisis, no good exclusives or whatever, but I guess we can only wait and see how the next gen from MS/Sony will do, and judge Wii U by those numbers

I think Kitler is right. In genereal, next gen sales in total will be less than this gen, and the first time we will see a decline (and like you said there are many factors that can be debated)

Vita will sell less than PSP

3DS should sell less than DS (Can it have 20m or 30m year(s)?)

Will the WiiU sell less than the Wii?

And of course, how will the PS4 and NextBox do compared to their predecessors?

Time will tell.



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DanneSandin on 22 December 2012
Solid-Stark said:
DanneSandin said:
Solid-Stark said:
DanneSandin said:
Solid-Stark said:
Its doing well, except in Europe.

+1

What troubles me is what the reason is for such a mediocre launch in Europe. I want to belive gamers are waiting for more exclusives or just third party games in general. But it looks like gamers in Europe would rather buy PS3's than the nexer next gen WiiU.

Nintendo will be fine in the U.S. and Japan. But, if we jump the gun now, EU will cripple the WiiU long term.

Yeah, we can point at the economic crisis, no good exclusives or whatever, but I guess we can only wait and see how the next gen from MS/Sony will do, and judge Wii U by those numbers

I think Kitler is right. In genereal, next gen sales in total will be less than this gen, and the first time we will see a decline (and like you said there are many factors that can be debated)

Vita will sell less than PSP

3DS should sell less than DS (Can it have 20m or 30m year(s)?)

Will the WiiU sell less than the Wii?

And of course, how will the PS4 and NextBox do compared to their predecessors?

Time will tell.

I actually don't think we'll see a decline at all. Perhaps no growth, but no decline either - unless Sony or MS finds something comparable to motion controls to push their systems. The handhelds might sell less though... hard to tell right now.



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OceanJ on 22 December 2012

Global launch sales (relative comparison)

WiiU: 1,817,166
Wii: 2,071,242
PS3: 524,687
X360: 948,162

I can't believe the Wii U has done 88% of the Wii's launch sales. That's even more impressive given weak Euro sales.  Just imagine if the Europe sales were stronger...we'd be talking about a launch that's outpacing the Wii.

I can't believe I'm saying it...but the Wii U launch is a smashing success so far.  There's just no other way to see it.




Mazty on 22 December 2012
DanneSandin said:
Mazty said:
DanneSandin said:
 

Oh, you're one of thoooose! Not thinking Wii U is part of the 8th gen =) now it all makes sense!

Wii was competing with PS360 - and did it very well. In fact, it was so good at competing that it won the gen. Wii U is part of the 8th gen of home consoles braw! And as far as I can see it's completely dominating! 100% market share. That's pretty good. But you're right, it could have had 110% or 200% market share!!

If the WIi U was not competiting directly with the 360 and PS3, then it wouldn't have so many ports and be looking for so many ports e.g. GTA 5. 
The Wii was not aimed at core gamers like the other two consoles. It's like comparing Ferrari sales to Ford sales - different markets. 

But whatever. Dreamcast syndrome has kicked in where people are just warping the situation in order to paint a favourable one. Time will tell just how well it's doing but with fuck all dev support, I can't see it lasting long. 

Well, it's obvious tha you don't know/understand that GAMES sell SYSTEMS. It's quite basic and simple really: (good) games sell more consoles, becuase that's what people use their consoles for - playing games. So if there is no games on a new system people won't buy it, because they wanna play them games. THAT'S why it's getting ports; to build a library of games that will entice people to buy the system for. How can you not see this? AND this is common practice in every new gen.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm getting at...a lot of the games on offer are multiplatform for last-gen consoles....

Ports won't entice people as the likelyhood is that they already own either a 360 or PS3 because they've been on the market for over 6 years.  
The Wii U has no game that screams next-gen like PGR3 did for the 360. It has games that look graphically on par with what is already on offer, made even more similar with cross play and xbox tablet-thing-system. 



Paul on 22 December 2012

I think that vgking and logic56 are cousins and matzy is their offspring.



Alby_da_Wolf on 22 December 2012

It's doing well everywhere except in Europe.



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