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Train wreck on 21 December 2012
Mnementh said:
Chandler said:
Mnementh said:

As I said, WiiU does OK in most regions, but can you do the same graph for Europe? In numbers it looks horrible.


It's not "OK" to pass the Wii, that's an understatement. And yes, in europe Wii U doesn't look good right now, but it's also not too far away from the pack.

 

Thanks. You are right, the launch-numbers in the US are very good, not only OK. But Wii did good outside launch and holidays, something we will have to wait for for WiiU.

The sales-performance  of the WiiU is unexpected for me. I expected it to do worse than the Wii but better than PS3 and 360, but I expected it more or less same decrease over all regions. So far we are only some weeks after launch, but it show (unexpectedly for me) that it can perform on the same level as the Wii in the US, but performs much worse in Europe. Note that Wii nearly kept it's direction in the following weeks, while the WiiU trails downwards. At the moment I have no explanation for the different reception in the regions.

And I agree with conegamer: you should do that in a thread and compare later with PS4 and Durango too.

Comparing the Wii launch and Wii u launch at this stage is pointless since in the US, the supply of Wii's was strained for 2 years, we never got a full account of how much it would have sold if demand was meet.  Here with the Wii U, we are seeing supply and demand pretty much equal and the Wii U hasnt been able to breach ~155k-ish level going on 3 weeks now ater its 400k start



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man-bear-pig on 21 December 2012

Hitmans sales in the UK doubled this week!

360 version last week: 35k
360 version this week: 70k

PS3 version last week: 30k
PS3 version this week: 60k

The reason for this is because it's been reduced to £20 pretty much everywhere



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

KillerMan on 21 December 2012
Mnementh said:
Chandler said:
Mnementh said:

As I said, WiiU does OK in most regions, but can you do the same graph for Europe? In numbers it looks horrible.


It's not "OK" to pass the Wii, that's an understatement. And yes, in europe Wii U doesn't look good right now, but it's also not too far away from the pack.

 

Thanks. You are right, the launch-numbers in the US are very good, not only OK. But Wii did good outside launch and holidays, something we will have to wait for for WiiU.

The sales-performance  of the WiiU is unexpected for me. I expected it to do worse than the Wii but better than PS3 and 360, but I expected it more or less same decrease over all regions. So far we are only some weeks after launch, but it show (unexpectedly for me) that it can perform on the same level as the Wii in the US, but performs much worse in Europe. Note that Wii nearly kept it's direction in the following weeks, while the WiiU trails downwards. At the moment I have no explanation for the different reception in the regions.

And I agree with conegamer: you should do that in a thread and compare later with PS4 and Durango too.


Only reason why WiiU is able to keep up with Wii sales in US  is because Wii had massive shortages when it launched. It literally could have sold double the amount it sold if there would have been unlimited amount of supply. And well...European launch of WiiU has been horrible considering the success of Wii. Vita level of bombing in EU.



Attoyou on 21 December 2012

NICE @ Super Mario land. Glad to see it still selling great.



Atto Suggests...:

Book - Malazan Book of the Fallen series 

Game - Metro Last Light

TV - Deadwood

Music - Forest Swords 

ryuzaki57 on 21 December 2012

OMG Vita outsells WiiU this week in UK!!!!!!!!



 

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Train wreck on 21 December 2012

PS3 and X360 sellthrough rates are pretty amazing for console near their ends



Train wreck on 21 December 2012

Couple of milestones about to drop
X360 software about to pass Wii software in the US (even with Wii sports included)
X360 about to pass Wii in total sales in the UK (probably by years end)
X360 only 2 mill behind Wii for total sales in the US



man-bear-pig on 21 December 2012
ryuzaki57 said:
OMG Vita outsells WiiU this week in UK!!!!!!!!


Jesus... :0



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

Mnementh on 21 December 2012
KillerMan said:
Only reason why WiiU is able to keep up with Wii sales in US  is because Wii had massive shortages when it launched. It literally could have sold double the amount it sold if there would have been unlimited amount of supply. And well...European launch of WiiU has been horrible considering the success of Wii. Vita level of bombing in EU.

Good point about the Wii-shortages (also train wreck). So I think my wording should be ... good launch for most regions (as WiiU does more than PS3 and X360 at launch). Over the long run WiiU should sell lower than Wii, but good enough if we extrapolate that.

Except for Europe. I would not say Vita-levels (has someone the numbers of Vita launch), but it is definitely bombing in Europe. And as a european I have no idea why it sells so different here compared to other regions.



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dsgrue3 on 21 December 2012
Train wreck said:
pezus said:
dsgrue3 said:
Train wreck said:

When was the last time no console sold a million+ during the holiday season?

edit: this late in the holiday season.  I suspect that next weeks numbers will have at least 1 system at 1 million


Your suspicions are invalid. 

2011 Global - Dec 24th

 

1,072,725 - Xbox 360

885,066 - PS3

 

360 is down 33% globally and PS3 is down 25%.

In other words, not a snowballs chance in hell of any console over 1 million next week. 

3DS might

Yea but its a weeks before christmas lol, i remember times when there was 2 or 3 (mostly nintendo products) at 1, 2 3, 4 mill+ during late november early december.  Time definatly a changin.

Nah, it isn't changing. Look at December weekly sales YOY:

Dec 1st 2012

3DS 542,334 (-12%) 23,663,525
PS3 509,028 (-33%) 69,739,564
X360 493,150 (-50%) 71,649,227

Dec 3rd 2011

3DS 794,757 (-11%) 8,929,215
X360 666,824 (-49%) 60,453,947
PS3 552,630 (-34%) 57,613,965

Dec 8th 2012

3DS 682,396 (+26%) 24,345,921
X360 614,353 (+25%) 72,263,580
WiiU 601,712 (+73%) 1,422,150
PS3 576,565 (+13%) 70,316,129

Dec 10th 2011

3DS 1,084,604 (+36%) 10,013,819
X360 822,524 (+23%) 61,276,471
Wii 649,443 (+20%) 91,637,786
PS3 637,833 (+15%) 58,251,798

Dec 15th 2012

276,543 238,565 325,820 897,655
517,968 180,603 1,426 757,880
262,932 299,693 44,663 711,509

Dec 17th 2011

3DS 1,246,443 (+15%) 11,260,262
X360 989,719 (+20%) 62,266,190
PS3 803,408 (+26%) 59,055,206

The weekly trend is down down down YOY, at least 25% across the board.