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kitler53 on 31 July 2013

look on the bright side nintendo fans.    vita numbers will be released tomorrow...

..i mean, at least nintendo is still putting games on wiiU.



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Conegamer on 31 July 2013
ethomaz said:
That's below terrible... I never saw anything close with any other console in the history.... 160k quarter in it first year? The work doomed never fits so well.

ASDA stooped to take order from Nintedo, other retails too because 10k is ridiculous for Europe and rest of the world.

I think Wii U can't be saved anymore... that GamePad will be considered the worst decision in the game history.

I could eeasily name 25 worse decisions. Virtual Boy? N64 using cartridges? Power Glove? 

Unless you mean as a required part of a console. Then I guess the Kinect in the Xbone could rival it. But for now, indeed it is a pretty bad decision. We shall see if it works in the long run, though.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

forest-spirit on 31 July 2013

Meh, could be worse. It has yet to hit negative sales.



Seece on 31 July 2013
Conegamer said:
ethomaz said:
That's below terrible... I never saw anything close with any other console in the history.... 160k quarter in it first year? The work doomed never fits so well.

ASDA stooped to take order from Nintedo, other retails too because 10k is ridiculous for Europe and rest of the world.

I think Wii U can't be saved anymore... that GamePad will be considered the worst decision in the game history.

I could eeasily name 25 worse decisions. Virtual Boy? N64 using cartridges? Power Glove? 

Unless you mean as a required part of a console. Then I guess the Kinect in the Xbone could rival it. But for now, indeed it is a pretty bad decision. We shall see if it works in the long run, though.

Not really, MS will have the opinion of dropping Kinect and the X1 will still have an identity. It's not the sole selling point either unlike WiiU with the gamepad.



 

the_dengle on 31 July 2013

Oh noooooo if they couldn't even manage a decent number of shipments in the worst quarter for video game sales with no notable new releases how will they ever sell any consoles during the second half of the year with a major exclusive title releasing every three weeks on average I MEAN DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM



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mii-gamer on 31 July 2013
crissindahouse said:
mii-gamer said:

For fuck sakes - i have  completely lost faith in the media

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-07-31-nintendo-160-000-wii-us-sold-in-past-three-months

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-31-nintendo-records-quarterly-profit-despite-abysmal-wii-u-sales

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/31/nintendo-reports-quarterly-revenue-down/

http://www.exophase.com/61147/nintendo-shifts-a-mere-160k-wii-u-units-in-april-june/

Can someone confirm that these dickheads are wrong?

so, you would prefer that they would report sold to consumers, something nobody even knows and which would be only a guess then instead of releasing true numbers? you know that the overall numbers for wii u would look worse then right? it would look better this quarter but overall it always looks better to look at sold to retailers and not sold to end-consumers (well, as long as it isn't sold out everywhere, then the number is the same)

what i am gettin at is that people think nintendo sold 160 000 wii u's to the consumers. Besides, on estimates by vgcharts,  the Wii U at the lowest was selling in the mid 20k, accounting for room for error, i doubt Wii U sold (to consumers) under 160 000. 



Carl on 31 July 2013

As a comparison to Wii -

The Wii sold 280,000 units on the Week ending 30th June 2007, while at the same time selling over 1 Million units of software for the Week.

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39264/Global/



                            

Porcupine_I on 31 July 2013
Nyleveia said:
Conegamer said:
These numbers are completely irrelevant unless you have the actual sales figures as well, which still shows over 12 weeks supply. So if anything, this shows that we are under tracking the Wii U.

The Wii U was overshipped, and this is making up for it. It's still disastrous, but without putting sales figures there it means actually very little. Unless you're trying to say that the Wii U sold below 10k in 3 months outside of Japan and America, of course.

Will you believe the wiiu is screwed when Nintendo shut down the production lines?

Don't be silly, the Wii U might be doomed when it starts to sell negative numbers, with people bringing back the consoles to be disassembeled in the factories.

i said MIGHT!



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Conegamer on 31 July 2013
Seece said:
Conegamer said:
ethomaz said:
That's below terrible... I never saw anything close with any other console in the history.... 160k quarter in it first year? The work doomed never fits so well.

ASDA stooped to take order from Nintedo, other retails too because 10k is ridiculous for Europe and rest of the world.

I think Wii U can't be saved anymore... that GamePad will be considered the worst decision in the game history.

I could eeasily name 25 worse decisions. Virtual Boy? N64 using cartridges? Power Glove? 

Unless you mean as a required part of a console. Then I guess the Kinect in the Xbone could rival it. But for now, indeed it is a pretty bad decision. We shall see if it works in the long run, though.

Not really, MS will have the opinion of dropping Kinect and the X1 will still have an identity. It's not the sole selling point either unlike WiiU with the gamepad.

That's true, but we have yet to really see what Kinect can do anyway, so it's a bit early to make a judgement on that just yet.

I expect the Kinect to be a useful, but expensive, feature. Kinda like the GamePad, but as you say dropping the Kinect wouldn't be as big a blow as dropping the tablet.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Seece on 31 July 2013
Conegamer said:
Seece said:
Conegamer said:
ethomaz said:
That's below terrible... I never saw anything close with any other console in the history.... 160k quarter in it first year? The work doomed never fits so well.

ASDA stooped to take order from Nintedo, other retails too because 10k is ridiculous for Europe and rest of the world.

I think Wii U can't be saved anymore... that GamePad will be considered the worst decision in the game history.

I could eeasily name 25 worse decisions. Virtual Boy? N64 using cartridges? Power Glove? 

Unless you mean as a required part of a console. Then I guess the Kinect in the Xbone could rival it. But for now, indeed it is a pretty bad decision. We shall see if it works in the long run, though.

Not really, MS will have the opinion of dropping Kinect and the X1 will still have an identity. It's not the sole selling point either unlike WiiU with the gamepad.

That's true, but we have yet to really see what Kinect can do anyway, so it's a bit early to make a judgement on that just yet.

I expect the Kinect to be a useful, but expensive, feature. Kinda like the GamePad, but as you say dropping the Kinect wouldn't be as big a blow as dropping the tablet.

No it isn't, it'll always be part of the experience rather than the core of it.