US Wii U sales trailed PS3 and 360 in January, analysts suggest

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Conegamer on 11 February 2013

pezus said:

Conegamer said:

pezus said:

Conegamer said:

AnthonyW86 said:

Well even if these estimates are correct it's still not very good. Let's say Wii-U did 120k in January oppossed to the 80K VGChartz suggests, that still only adds about 10k a week tops. Wich means Wii-U was still only doing 50k a week worldwide, while the original Wii did about 250k a week in the same peroid after launch. As a comparison, even the PS3 did 60k-70k at it's lowest point in January after launch, and that was before it launched in europe and with a $500-$600 price tag.

All it's saying though is, that if the Wii U is so drastically undertracked in America, why wouldn't it also be the case in, say, Europe?

"Drastically". Come on, Cone . Nintendo also showed us their numbers, so we know we aren't much off in Europe.

Eh, percentage-wise it's about 35-40%, so that is quite a big difference. I'd imagine it to be around 100k when all is said and done, so it's still pretty damn dire, just not as bad as we'd imagined.

Well VGC have been closer than both of those groups the last few months. It's like they get their numbers out of thin air.

...don't they?

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relapse on 12 February 2013

Can't say I'm surprised.

Since the annoucement at E3 last year the interest level in this console has been tepid at best. Gone is the casual market that bought the Wii en masse for Wii Sports and Wii Fit leaving the WiiU struggling to try and attract a market from a group of gamers who the original Wii console never really resonated with.

Irrespective of what the Nintendo fanboys want to claim, the Wii U is 2 years too late and unless it comes up with a game changing killer app to attract the casual market that have moved onto IOS/Android then the sales will drop even further when the 720 and PS4 are released later this year.

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cbarroso09 on 12 February 2013

hang in there Wii U, games are coming, and even if you don't sell more than the others 6 year old consoles you are going to be fine, because all the money will go to Nintendo franchises. At least mine, I don't care about third party publishers, that has not been you strength since the N64 in 1996, I don't expect that to chance in 1 year. You are going to be fine, when the new consoles come out and their cost is more than you, you know that people like cheap things. Sales of the Xbox360 and PS3 has being the best after that huge price cut, so hang it there Wii U.