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burninmylight on 28 July 2013
MohammadBadir said:
burninmylight said:
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.


neither will the Xbone/PS4 IMO


Mine too, but this thread is about the Wii U, and I'm trying to get better about staying on topic.



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superchunk on 28 July 2013
justinian said:

Although correct this comparison has a significant flaw. The Wii U was available in all the main markets within a month. The x360 was not available in Europe until months after the NA launch. The x360 sales you are comparing the wii u with is pratically just the x360s NA sales vs the wii u's global.

Did you just rewrite history? X360 was worldwide in Nov/Dec just like WiiU. I think you're confusing X360 with PS3 which did not launch in Europe until March.



Th3PANO on 28 July 2013
JoeTheBro said:
Congrats wii u! I doubt it will follow the ps3 to 100+ million but we can at least expect it to outdo the gamecube, in japan.


lol ps 3 100+ million, in which year 2017= after 11 years? xD



Blood_Tears on 28 July 2013
Th3PANO said:
JoeTheBro said:
Congrats wii u! I doubt it will follow the ps3 to 100+ million but we can at least expect it to outdo the gamecube, in japan.


lol ps 3 100+ million, in which year 2017= after 11 years? xD


and your point is? 



HikenNoAce on 28 July 2013
Th3PANO said:
JoeTheBro said:
Congrats wii u! I doubt it will follow the ps3 to 100+ million but we can at least expect it to outdo the gamecube, in japan.


lol ps 3 100+ million, in which year 2017= after 11 years? xD

Yeah. So? What are you trying to say?



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zorg1000 on 28 July 2013
HikenNoAce said:
Wow, that is embarrassing for Nintendo. They do not have the higher price excuse like the PS3 did.


They do have the lack of games excuse tho. I know PS3 didnt have the best line up early on but if remember correctly it was much better than Wii U at this point.

And another thing is PS3 was one of the cheaper blu ray players of the time and alot of people were buying it for that early on and gaming was just a nice extra to go along with it.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

Fusioncode on 29 July 2013

PS3 had no games, a massive price tag, and huge competition from the Wii. What's Nintendo's excuse?



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

zorg1000 on 29 July 2013
Fusioncode said:
PS3 had no games, a massive price tag, and huge competition from the Wii. What's Nintendo's excuse?


No games, huge price tag in relation to other nintendo consoles, competition from PS3, japan has moved to portable, and to be fair PS3 was a cheap blu ray player at the time.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

HikenNoAce on 29 July 2013
zorg1000 said:
HikenNoAce said:
Wow, that is embarrassing for Nintendo. They do not have the higher price excuse like the PS3 did.


They do have the lack of games excuse tho. I know PS3 didnt have the best line up early on but if remember correctly it was much better than Wii U at this point.

And another thing is PS3 was one of the cheaper blu ray players of the time and alot of people were buying it for that early on and gaming was just a nice extra to go along with it.


It certainly didn't have Mario, Pikmin and MH.



zorg1000 on 29 July 2013
HikenNoAce said:
zorg1000 said:
HikenNoAce said:
Wow, that is embarrassing for Nintendo. They do not have the higher price excuse like the PS3 did.


They do have the lack of games excuse tho. I know PS3 didnt have the best line up early on but if remember correctly it was much better than Wii U at this point.

And another thing is PS3 was one of the cheaper blu ray players of the time and alot of people were buying it for that early on and gaming was just a nice extra to go along with it.


It certainly didn't have Mario, Pikmin and MH.

Pikmin 3 has been out for 2 weeks and did boost sales

Monster Hunter is a 3 year old port of a Wii game that has also been on 3DS for a year longer.

That leaves basically Mario and nobody spends $350 just for Mario.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.