Amazon UK: Wii U Sales Rank Jumps 875% Following Microsoft’s Xbox One Reveal

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F0X on 23 May 2013

Tells me that it's at 50 and it went up 386%.

Anyway Earthbound at 3rd place... this day is glorious.

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nero on 23 May 2013

Thaimasker said:
Microsoft does what nintendon't....Sell Wii U's lol

hahaha, this year the marketing of the console is being held by Microsoft (4 free) and the games by Nintendo, who knew this gen they would be working together!!! hahaha

Let's wait the next week to the the real numbers in the UK.

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nero on 23 May 2013

F0X said:
Tells me that it's at 50 and it went up 386%.

Anyway Earthbound at 3rd place... this day is glorious.

Yeahh, saw that more than 1000% increase, Nintendo doesn't need the re-launch their console, 21 was the day

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RazorDragon on 23 May 2013

This makes absolutely no sense. We can assure, though, that after this news, "Nintendo is doomed" threads will stop and "Microsoft is doomed" threads will arise.

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crissindahouse on 23 May 2013

the article says amazon.com but the headline and link are amazon.co.uk.

but .co.uk seems to be right.

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wick on 23 May 2013

Well it worked for me.

I had no plans on buying a WiiU

After seeing the Microsoft conference, I'll be buying a WiiU in the next month

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Barozi on 23 May 2013

Osc89 said:
It might have a lot to do with another price drop

http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Nintendo-Wii-32GB-Premium-Pack/product/B008B5YB4W

£289 -> £229

yeah this seems to be one major factor, though not as good as the £199 deal 3 weeks ago. On the other hand I could imagine that Amazon has more online customers than ASDA.

Amazon has probably around 10% marketshare in the UK (purely guessed), so yeah the overall change most likely won't be as high. Maybe doubling the UK sales to ~3.5-4k.
Don't think that it will reach PS3 or 360 levels.