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Figgycal on 25 July 2013
superchunk said:
leo-j said:
that's not good..... the ps3 was almost dead world wide until it dropped to 399

However, WiiU's issue hasn't really been price. Its been content. PS3 had plenty of content, just too damn expensive at first.

And it looks like content is still going to be the problem 3rd party has given up on the Wii U. 

Plus the PS3 was 600 dollars and the Wii U has no competition- this makes the Wii U look even worse.



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superchunk on 25 July 2013
Figgycal said:
superchunk said:

However, WiiU's issue hasn't really been price. Its been content. PS3 had plenty of content, just too damn expensive at first.

And it looks like content is still going to be the problem 3rd party has given up on the Wii U. 

Plus the PS3 was 600 dollars and the Wii U has no competition- this makes the Wii U look even worse.

EA is the only 3rd party with next-gen software that has no games on WiiU this holiday and they already stated support will be back in 2014. (basically they just wanted to F WiiU and help push people to PS4/XBO at launch... its part of their "unprecedented partnership")

WiiU is not that far behind X360 globally at this same time at a similar price point too and by end of year it will likely be higher than 360 (comparing these two as they both had first year alone).



Mythmaker1 on 25 July 2013
superchunk said:

WiiU is not that far behind X360 globally at this same time at a similar price point too and by end of year it will likely be higher than 360 (comparing these two as they both had first year alone).


How is that? Looking at the figures here on the site, the X360 leads by around 550k.



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superchunk on 25 July 2013
Mythmaker1 said:
superchunk said:

WiiU is not that far behind X360 globally at this same time at a similar price point too and by end of year it will likely be higher than 360 (comparing these two as they both had first year alone).

How is that? Looking at the figures here on the site, the X360 leads by around 550k.

Half a million is not that much. It'll be gone by January.



Mythmaker1 on 25 July 2013
superchunk said:
Mythmaker1 said:
superchunk said:

WiiU is not that far behind X360 globally at this same time at a similar price point too and by end of year it will likely be higher than 360 (comparing these two as they both had first year alone).

How is that? Looking at the figures here on the site, the X360 leads by around 550k.

Half a million is not that much. It'll be gone by January.


About 15%. At this stage, that is significant. For comparison sake, if the Wii U had 15% of the 360's current sales, it would trail by 14 million units (not really that close).

And you might be right in saying that lead will evaporate, but that isn't what I was commenting on.



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think-man on 25 July 2013

Well anyways I guess the point of the thread is that if the ps3 could turn things around so could the WiiU.



 

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kopstudent89 on 26 July 2013

8 weeks before the PS3.

That said PS3 had 3rd party support so it was able to manage a come back. Do I think the Wii U will get that support? No. Unless its first party titles do reaaaally well it won't compete with the PS3 numbers.



outlawauron on 26 July 2013

So it's doing about as well as a performance that everyone considered to be absolutely awful and a failure.

Later on the PS3 picked up, and we don't know if the Wii U will do the same.

 

And lol at that inaccurate article. There was no pre-launch price cut in Japan.



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teigaga on 26 July 2013

The problem is that the wii U has actually been selling much worse than the PS3 in recent months compared to the ps3 in the same period. But things are balanced by the fact that it had a much stronger launch month.



burninmylight on 26 July 2013

The Wii U will never reach PS3-level lifetime sells unless natural disasters or terrorist attacks hit Xbone and PS4 manufacturing plants. But as it's been stated many times here, don't count it out until it's big guns hit. Let's wait until after Zelda, Mario, DK, Wii Sports and Wii Party touch down.