NintendoPie said:
At this time the Wii sold around 3.8 Million units. So, it's kind of bad. |
About a 1.3 mil difference, yeah thats bad :
| Light said:
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not...
NintendoPie said:
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not... |
loool im not its a lot, if it was like 200-300K it would be fine.
| Yakuzaice said: Pretty dreadful numbers all around. Kind of crazy how things have changed in just three or so weeks. You still had people claiming the Wii U was supply constrained and could sell ~250k a week this quarter. It seems the Wii U has also dipped significantly compared to the Vita since last week. It is also behind in every region for this week (just a note, this doesn't include full NA or others numbers since VGC doesn't include those breakdowns for weekly numbers.) Vita Total: 55,668 Wii U Total: 35,896 |
Interesting but depressing comparison. Thanks for doing this in any case.
Are you going to be doing this for every week's numbers? I do find it really interesting. But it's going to be really disheartening to watch over the upcoming months. Vita slumped dramatically after launch, and I can't see anything until Dragon Quest & Lego City in March to help Wii-U either.
Light said:
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Nintendo didn't expect the gap to be any bigger than that through March. They'd need to sell something like 300k a week to meet that goal now; this is the last time the Wii got above 250k for a while at the same point IIRC. And as people have pointed out, it took several years before the Wii had numbers this low.
It's pretty bad.
This is going to be a horrble year for the global industry if the Wii U and 3DS don't pick up soon.
Week 3 2013: 535,000 systems
Week 3 2012: 847,000 systems
Drop: -37%
Week 1-3 2013: 2,672,000 systems
Week 1-3 2012: 3,666,000 systems
Drop: -27%
PS3 + X360 in Week 1-3 2013: 909,000 systems
PS3 + X360 in Week 1-3 2012: 1,483,000 systems
Drop: -39%
PS3 + X360 in 2012: 21,083,000
PS3 + X360 Current Pace for 2013: 12,860,000 (-39%)
That comes out to like 7m PS3s and 5.9m X360s
The whole year is probably going to be like this:
3DS - 15m globally (5.8m Japan, 7m US & EU, 2.2m elsewhere)
Wii U - 7m* (3m US, 2m EU, 1.3m JP, 0.7m elsewhere)
PS3 - 7m (2.3m US, 3m EU, 0.8m JP, 0.9m elsewhere)
X360 - 5.9m (3m US, 1.8m EU, 1.1m elsewhere)
Vita - 4.0m (1.3m US, 1.3m EU, 900k JP, 0.5m elsewhere)
Wii - 2.0m (0.8m US, 0.4m EU, 0.3m JP, 0.5m elsewhere)
PS4 - 2.0m (0.7m US, 0.8m EU, 0.4m JP, 0.1m elsewhere)
Xbox 720 - 2.0m (1m US, 1m EU)
PSP - 1.3m (0.1m US, 0.4m EU, 0.3m JP, 0.5m elsewhere)
* Assumes price cut in April
I'm being fairly optimistic with a lot of these, but it still comes out to everything being 10% from 2012 (52m to 46m)
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VGKing said:
I don't see a problem with his posts. He made it clear he is not a Nintendo fan and their failure woldn't hurt him at all. You guys are insulting him for that so you keep pushing him more and more. Its his opinion, respect it. |
No one pushed him this thread - he came into this thread delibrately trolling. If you believe otherwise im not going to with you as well.
Bet with ninjablade:
Ninjablade wins if the next 5 multiplat on the wii u are inferior to the 360 version.
I win if one of the 5 mulitplats are on par or superior on the Wii U.
DanneSandin said:
Yeah, I've never understood the whole concept of bashing another team, or whatever it might be. I just don't get it. And I never read the comments on IGN for a reason ^^ What's wrong with people??? Why all the hate? |
DanneSandin i thought we agreed on this, your only allowed to like one console and you must hate every other console ever made!
Max King of the Wild said:
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i remember monster hunter 4 being announced for 3ds raised its sales in japan
| Mummelmann said: What is this about no games? Where were the fantastic launch titles for the 360 and PS3? The 360 used Perfect Dark: Zero and Kameo as advertisement around launch, CoD was not a big franchise yet, things like NFL doesn't sell outside of the US and the rest were mostly region specific titles or even niche, or parts of franchises that would only grow later in the gen. The 360 was also sold at 399$ at launch, which is quite a bit more expensive, especially when you factor in inflation (adds quite a bit since this is nearly a decade ago). The PS3's launch line-up? CoD 3, Ridge Racer, same sports games as the 360 that year, Mobile Suit Gundamn and Genji, the new IP Resistance and some niche titles, hardly earth shattering. And it was sold at a ridiculous 599$ at launch. You know what's even worse? It did better than the Wii U currently is even without being available in its biggest market; Europe. Neither the PS3 nor 360 had a launch line-up that is anywhere near the Wii U's, Assassin's Creed III, part of what has become a behemoth franchise, Batman Arkham City, the sequel to a game that has sold over 6 million units and is among the most critically acclaimed titles in the entire 7th generation, CoD Black Ops 2, the sequel to the biggest gaming franchise in history, FIFA 13, sequel to a long running and big series, especially in Europe where the Wii U is doing the worst, Just Dance 4, the sequel to the smash hit series on the Wii that has moved over 25 million units in three installations and the monolithic New Super Mario Bros U, sequel to the 26+ million selling monster hit and part of Nintendo's biggest franchise by far (Super Mario games), available right from the start. The Wii U also costs 349$, a fairly low launch price, historically, below average for sure. It is also the heir to a market leader and generation winner both hardware and software-wise, unlike the 360, which has battled its way up from obscurity. What, its the economy's fault then? Then why has Samsung grown into an absolute hardware giant in the last five years? Why do people willingly spend up to 600$ on tablets and phones? PC's and Mac's are still selling like gangbusters as well, same goes for HDTV's and stereo. People are obviously not only willing to spend money on electronics, they're spending more than ever since the line-up is so diverse and costly in total. No, the Wii U's problem is the essence of the product; its chasing two markets and missing both. This is not something to remedy with remakes, small price cuts, promises of exclusives in the future or even Mario Kart. The Wii U was built from the ground up with a major design flaw; the whole design itself. With the core being mainly stationed on the older HD consoles and PC and the casuals flocking to tablets/phones and social games, there is little left to maintain hardware sales. |
You fail to recognise one thing. PS3 and X360 were next gen consoles. Nobody was denying it, they were cutting edge, everyone was hyped about them, crazy about their capabilities. They were something new, everything about them was shouting "next gen". Wii U? Is it really next gen? I don't feel so. At least so far not a single game has shown anything that would scream "next generation of gaming".
You tell me ports of big titles? Cool, but why should I care to buy a new console to play them, if there is no improvement over the version on console that I own? And that my friends already own? If they offered something new - better controls (like the Wii did) or graphics (like PS360 did) it would be a different story. Wii U is right now competing with PS360 and it fails to give us anything that's better than what these consoles offer. 3rd parties won't give Wii U anything better than they give to PS360, cause these markets are bigger and they don't want their main clients to feel like they are getting second quality goods for the same price, so all these ports are pretty much meaningless and don't make Wii Us launch a good one. A new console needs to show something new and the only way Wii U ever manages to surpass the quality of games on PS360 is by 1st party games that give us something new. Otherwise it will be at best equal to PS360 for now and significantly worse than PS4/Xbox8 in a year.
PS360 were a huge step forward when released. Wii was a revolution. Wii U? Not even half a step so far, they only managed to catch up with PS360. I'm not saying it's not capable of it, cause I think it is, but so far I haven't seen anything spectacular.
Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!
My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/
My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.
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