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Chandler on 01 January 2013

New Super Mario Bros. U

US 0.54

EU 0.18

JP 0.24

REST 0.07

GLOBAL 1.03

 

Not sure if gratz or pathetic doom?



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oniyide on 01 January 2013
SOLIDSNAKE08 said:
oniyide said:
lordmandeep said:
hmm Interesting how AC3 gets all this bad press yet will be the biggest AC by a wide margin


I think people were expecting alot from the game, I like it myself and i dont see the big deal. sure I like Ezio better than Conner and sure the game starts off way to slow, but it does pick up. I did notice a fair amount of glitches, (especially 360 version) but i think those got patched out already.

beautiful world, empty game. is connor even an assassin? cause i dont remember doing much assassinating in AC3. it was a huge let down for me and i've loved all the previous ones.

I have noticed the world seems empty, truth be told i really havent gotten that far. Hell I still have Conner in his Native American attire, but what i have played so far i have enjoyed, maybe itll change.



Conegamer on 01 January 2013
pezus said:
curl-6 said:
1m down YOY: time for next gen guys.

Most of the drop comes from Wii and 3DS, one of which has a next-gen successor already out and the other is a next-gen successor :/


But you also have the Vita and WiiU added.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Alby_da_Wolf on 01 January 2013
kowenicki said:
pezus said:

Last year:

 

Global Hardware by Platform

 

PlatformWeekly (change)Total
3DS 1,445,985 (+16%) 12,706,247
X360 1,072,725 (+8%) 63,338,915
PS3 885,066 (+10%) 59,940,272
Wii 874,914 (+12%) 93,293,722
DS 360,315 (+9%) 150,146,254
PSP 323,679 (+32%) 72,658,553
PSV 107,451 (-67%) 429,939
Total5,070,135(+7%)

3DS down 346k (-23.9%)
360 down 266k (-24.8%)
PS3 down 116k (-13.1%)
Wii down 554k! (-63.3%)
DS down 97k (-26.9%)
PSP down 199k (-61.4%)
PSV up 95k (+88.8%)

you beat me to it on this one...

pretty bad really isnt it.

Not too bad if you consider that last year the week included the whole last 7 days before Xmas, while this year the last two days are in the successive week to the one currently charted.



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Jumpin on 01 January 2013
Roar_Of_War said:
Mazty said:
Zelhawks37 said:
Mazty said:
Zelhawks37 said:
Mazty said:
Zelhawks37 said:
Once again, you Nintendo haters need to really hide your true colors better.

3DS still beasting, as expected, and Wii U will pick up in sales. Man, the Vita should do much better than that. The gap between X360 and PS3 is great for Sony, but doubt they care, given the crisis they are in. Overall, worse than last year, but the fact that handheld gaming is still kicking is great news for the video game industry. Surprised the DS is still selling great, but there were plenty of sales for it and the 3DS at my local Target.


You really shouldn't make such statements when you really don't have anything to base them on. Wii U sales MIGHT pick up, they might not. 

Nintendo knows what they are doing. They won't just screw up for their next home console. Not even two months in, and everyone is making judgements. Just compare the Xbox360, PS3, and Wii U launch.

Nintendo aren't some omniscient power - they might have made a mistake.

Comparing the 360/Wii/PS3 launches are irrelevant as the market was vastly different back then, plus those consoles weren't competiting against the previous generation, whereas the Wii U is fighting the PS3/360 head on with the volume of identical ports it has - there has been no "PGR3" yet for it. 
Either way, you can't claim Nintendo sales will pick up as that is not a fact, just speculation. 

What is fact, is that Nintendo had this same problem with the 3DS. How did that turn out? Yes, it is pure speculation, but saying that the Wii U is suddenly flopping is just as judgemental, perhaps even more so.

No one is saying it is flopping; it just isn't doing that well compared to it's older and cheaper rivals. The 3ds is a handheld, so again that is a pointless comparison due to market differences. Until the Wii U shows something that dramatically seperates itself from the 360 and PS3, then it will be seen as a rival to those two consoles and therefore their sales will be compared. In that sense, the Wii U is not performing very well at all. 


Isn't the Wii U selling better than the PS3 and 360 did at launch so far? In that sense, it would be selling very well.


They performed poorly at launch too, and didn't pick up until after price drops. You might also note that PS3 lost the brand tens of millions of customers. So saying "at least it's better than PS3" is not a good argument. Nintendo really needs to get their numbers up to dominating levels before Sony and Microsoft start launching their consoles. I think selling it for prices higher than 500USD in Europe is not the way to go.



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Zelhawks37 on 01 January 2013
pezus said:
Zelhawks37 said:

This is actually where I will agree with you. Early in its life, the Wii U will struggle with its identity. It needs "that" game to truly show its capabilities. Any of its 1st party franchises will do the trick.

Like a 2D Mario game?


LOL no. More like a 3D Mario, Zelda, Monolith game, Retro, Maybe even Kirby or Fire Emblem.

My wildcard is either Star fox or F Zero. :)



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TheLastStarFighter on 01 January 2013
Yakuzaice 13 hours ago
TheLastStarFighter said:
WiiU isn't bad in Europe. They are selling what they are getting there. I have no idea why people can't understand that. Nintendo can't manufacture more than 400k per week. If they could, they would have capacity to manufacture more than 20million units per year (400k*52weeks) which would be a stupid level of over-capacity. Nintendo is allocating more units to North America and Japan right now, just like they did with Wii. The only number to look at with WiiU is the total sales, not where the shipments are going. WiiU is selling what they can make, and will continue to do so until all of the Nintendo Nuts have their system. After the first 5-10 million units we will see if there is mass-market appeal for SuperWii.

Can't believe you are still arguing this. Weren't you claiming Europe would get 100k per week earlier. Now it has sold well below that for two (and presumably three through the 29th) weeks. So despite it selling less than you expected, being easily available at retailers and online, and selling for less than retail on ebay, you still somehow think it is selling out? I'm curious, if Nintendo's financials show more than 500k shipped to Europe or ~2.5 million worldwide what will your reaction be? Will you admit that it wasn't sold out or will you just claim it was undertracked?

You claim Nintendo can make 400k per week and they will sell all they can make until they hit 5-10 million. So basically you expect them to continue to sell 400k a week through February? Or will they just scale back production despite there supposedly being enough demand to sell all they make?

Also, when do you think they started Wii U manufacturing? Because 400k from the NA launch to the end of the year would be about 2.4 million. However it would have needed to start at least a month before considering they needed to be shipped from china. That would put the total for the year around ~4 million. Now, most of December's production wouldn't be in time for the West unless they shipped them by air, but apparently so little is going to Europe that isn't a huge factor. So even if they didn't start production until late October that would mean a potential 2.4 million for the West plus more for Japan since shipping time is much quicker with China.

 

 

I can't believe I'm arguing it either, it seems so painfully obvious to me but a lot of people can't see it including yourself. Honest question. The WiiU has sold to date 340k in Europe. Do you truly, seriously, honestly think there are only 340k people in Europe who want a WiiU? If you answer no, than you must now agree with me that the systems sales are limited only by supply and Nintendo's ability to get the system in to waiting hands. If you answer yes, and you think there are only 340k people in Europe who want a WiiU this conversation is pointless and I don't know why you post on this site because you have no idea how many people by video games and systems. Beyond that there isn't much point to this talk, you'll see how it all works out when Nintendo sells their projections by March. Cheers.



VGKing on 01 January 2013

Black Ops 2 is severely undertracked. I know for certain that there is at least 9.8million copies out there since my friend has played only 35minutes and is ranked 9.8m in the leaderboards for multiplayer. Even adding this weeks numbers it should still be undertracked near 1m.



VGKing on 01 January 2013
kowenicki said:
thismeintiel said:
kowenicki said:
VGKing said:

Yes, and that's the 360s strongest region. It is down 26% YOY in USA Alone according to VGChartz http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2012/USA/


The price cut was for the whole year? Ridiculous comparison when talking about the holiday price cut in the US.

the price cut was recent.

this week the 360 is down 12.7% YOY.

The price cut next near will probably not be for all year, either.  Unless MS just keeps the urrent price cuts in place.  And this '12's pricecut was for 3 months, 2 of which are the busiest shopping months of the year.  There was also $150 360 bundles during Black Friday and many stores offered the $199 SKUfor $179 afer Black Friday.  The 360 will still end ~25% down YOY.


Yeah, as I predicted. 

Wait until you see the drop the 360 and PS3 have next year.

i know, I know... Huge games... Ps3 could eve be flat.....yadda yadda yadda

I think you are BenV are forgetting one thing that will keep PS3360 sales from falling too much next year.....Grand Theft Auto V. 

Grand Theft Auto IV incresae PS3 and 360 sales by 80% the week of release http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39572/Global/
(Wii also had a 105% increase so there may be some other factors I'm missing here..)



ethomaz on 01 January 2013

VGKing said:

I think you are BenV are forgetting one thing that will keep PS3360 sales from falling too much next year.....Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto IV incresae PS3 and 360 sales by 80% the week of release http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39572/Global/
(Wii also had a 105% increase so there may be some other factors I'm missing here..)

Mario Kart Wii release in US.