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Forums - Sales - January 2013 NPD Thread - 360: 281k, Wii U: 57k, PSV: 35k

Soleron on 15 February 2013
Chandler said:

February will look similar.

It'll be missing the W1 boost and only be 4 weeks. So it's going to be more like 35k.



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Conegamer on 15 February 2013
Chandler said:

Software sells hardware. Not suriprising in the least, Nintendo fucked up big time with this one. February will look similar.

I agree, I don't see much in February to help it. March, perhaps MH and Lego City could help, but it's far from a certainty. And then I don't see much in April, Pikmin and Wonderful 101 in May...why no games, Nintendo? I know you're gearing up for a pricecut with Mario/Zelda in Q3, but you can't just sacrifice everything now!



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

DirtyP2002 on 15 February 2013
TheSource said:
benao87 said:
Those are some impressive X360 numbers.

Are people really surprised about WiiU's numbers, next month is going to be worse, wondering if they are going to be equally hysteric.

I don't think Nintendo should be overly worried, they are aware of the situation. They can be incompetent but the picture is crystal clear. They shouldn't rush things, they may have lost the potential to strike hard and first, but they are still selling 50k more than nextbox , and PS4 (in North America). 3DS is a good asset, and I think it's quite prudent to further establish it first than the WiiU.


All the numbers are amazingly bad. NPD had a leap January this year (normally, they have a 4-4-5 quarterly schedule * 4, this year its 5-4-5 in Q1 2013 to catch up for seven 364 day years rather than seven 365 day years).

It's 281,000 divided by five for X360, 55,000 divided by five for Wii U etc etc. So on a weekly basis X360 dropped to 56,500 from 67,500 in January 2012 to January 2013. The payroll tax will probably hurt disposable income this year too.


Please don't try to tear Xbox 360 down to Wii U - level.
The Xbox 360 is in its 8th year and does more in one week than the Wii U does in a 5-week month.

The Wii U is not starting healthy.
You should not judge Nintendo before their biggest franchises released (Mario Kart, Wii Fit U, 3D Mario, Smas Bros, Zelda). But the start is a nightmare.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

Soleron on 15 February 2013
DirtyP2002 said:

You should not judge Nintendo before their biggest franchises released (Mario Kart, Wii Fit U, 3D Mario, Smas Bros, Zelda). But the start is a nightmare.

All but one of those appeared on the Gamecube and did not make it a big success. GC also had better early third party support.



MystVearn on 15 February 2013

It seems that Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch sold over 100,000 units.



I apologize in advance for my bad english.

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megaman79 on 15 February 2013
Turkish said:
gigantor21 said:
Another GAF quote:

"Seriously, I'm a huge Nintendo fan but its disgusting seeing some people almost hoping the other two do miserably to validate Nintendo in some way for not being a complete screwup right now."

This guy's on to something. I've been seeing people around here all but hope for the pyrrhic victory of all 3 consoles doing shittily next gen, as some sort of consolation prize if the Wii U doesn't recover.

At any rate, where are the rest of the numbers? Is it usually this disjointed?

Yep, I've seen a few Nintendo fans hoping that PS4 and 720 do as badly as WiiU, these people are bad for gaming, not wanting the industry to recover.

 

Turkish said:

SOLIDSNAKE08 said:
this is exactly how the wii would have sold wothout all those casuals buying it. this is whats happening to the wii u.


Things are returning back to normality again for Nintendo on the console market.

And you wonder why.....

 





“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Proclus on 15 February 2013

Looks like WiiU and PSV got their asses kicked, suddenly I'm not suprised all the game stores I've been in lately had only 20% real estate reseverved for these platforms together.



Chandler on 15 February 2013

That kevin dent guy is full of shit. VB sold 770000 lifetime, Wii U is already way beyond that number.



Ongoing bet with think-man: He wins if MH4 releases in any shape or form on PSV in 2013, I win if it doesn't.

cusman on 15 February 2013

All these people buying the Xbox 360 must be expecting on-going software support for it by Microsoft even after the next Xbox is officially coming out and releases.

Historically

Only Sony continues to support the old home console hardware well after release of the new system.
Nintendo & Sony both continue to support the old portable console.
Microsoft completely drops support old console like a rock



donsterydo2 on 15 February 2013
cusman said:
All these people buying the Xbox 360 must be expecting on-going software support for it by Microsoft even after the next Xbox is officially coming out and releases.

Historically

Only Sony continues to support the old home console hardware well after release of the new system.
Nintendo & Sony both continue to support the old portable console.
Microsoft completely drops support old console like a rock

What a bullshit.

 

If someone buys now X360 he has a library of thousands games to chose from.