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Forums - Sales - October 2013 NPD Thread! 3DS: 452k, 360: 166k

Seece said:
zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
WiiU at 512k in the US so far this year.


What r u expecting for Nov/Dec?

I was expecting 600k a piece. Now? Meh I really don't know. Super Mario 3D can only do so much. 400k a piece.

Oct - Nov jump is typically in a x4 - x6 range. I mean to reach 500k WiiU needs to x10 over October ...

The weird thing is havent seen many good holiday deals, u would think retailers would bw trying to get rid of these things. 360 is as low as $99 and PS3 as low as $149 yet Wii U is still $299 at most big retailers on black friday.



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zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
WiiU at 512k in the US so far this year.


What r u expecting for Nov/Dec?

I was expecting 600k a piece. Now? Meh I really don't know. Super Mario 3D can only do so much. 400k a piece.

Oct - Nov jump is typically in a x4 - x6 range. I mean to reach 500k WiiU needs to x10 over October ...

The weird thing is havent seen many good holiday deals, u would think retailers would bw trying to get rid of these things. 360 is as low as $99 and PS3 as low as $149 yet Wii U is still $299 at most big retailers on black friday.

No point on clearing products that don't sell well unless it's a firesale though. The retailers doing $99 360's won't likely make a profit/break even, they do it to get people in store and hope to make it up with software ect. They obviously note WiiU isn't desireable. That and it's just had a price cut, maybe they think price isn't the issue.



 

zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
WiiU at 512k in the US so far this year.


What r u expecting for Nov/Dec?

I was expecting 600k a piece. Now? Meh I really don't know. Super Mario 3D can only do so much. 400k a piece.

Oct - Nov jump is typically in a x4 - x6 range. I mean to reach 500k WiiU needs to x10 over October ...

The weird thing is havent seen many good holiday deals, u would think retailers would bw trying to get rid of these things. 360 is as low as $99 and PS3 as low as $149 yet Wii U is still $299 at most big retailers on black friday.


I'm gonna guess retailers weren't happy that they overstocked Wii U for much of the year and aren't willing to take any loss on existing inventory. Nintendo may also not be willing to eat a further loss for Black Friday sales. 

That and Black Friday deals generally tend to center around products people actually want, lol, maybe retailers feel Wii U just isn't a big ticket item. 



trestres said:
cbarroso09 said:
trestres said:
Lol at Nintendo not sharing the WiiU numbers, they must have been catastrophic.

The last paragraphs simply embarrass me. The desperation Nintendo is showing with regards to its home console is alarming.

3DS doing good, Pokemon overtracked by around a million, but if we add all of the Americas that may go down to 800k or so.


What desperation? I don't see Reggie, Iwata nor any Nintendo employee twiting like stupids, doing useless Nintendo Directs or anything like that. 

What I do think is that they are really dissapointed, but not desperate. Way to go to tell things. 


You have non existant analitical capabilities. You can't read between lines. Please, re-read those paragraphs once again. Watch the latest commercials. Then after you take your Ninty glasses off, we can speak coherent things.

Nintendo is desperate, there's no denying. Disappointed doesn't exist in the world of business, and less so when billions are in stake. The strategy is leading to nowhere and sales are plummeting. Nothing is working. You either retire the console that's draining money from your company or you retire the direction. No more excuses. Thankfully serious enterprises don't listen to people who say, "just pat them in the back, the Wii U will be just fine in the end, just like in all kids movies, happy endings come, we just gotta wait for x, y and z to arrive, and that will show them haters".

The situation is terrible and critical. If Holidays go wrong for the Wii U, drastic things will happen.

Retire the console, really. Like the PS3 and XBOX360, yeah. Read between lines. It is not rocket science, though I am a rocket scientist. 

The Wii U will probably neverdo well, but Nintendo is not desperate as you seem to imply. Desperation is what you are showing by wanting Nintendo to do what you say. 



Soundwave said:
zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
WiiU at 512k in the US so far this year.


What r u expecting for Nov/Dec?

I was expecting 600k a piece. Now? Meh I really don't know. Super Mario 3D can only do so much. 400k a piece.

Oct - Nov jump is typically in a x4 - x6 range. I mean to reach 500k WiiU needs to x10 over October ...

The weird thing is havent seen many good holiday deals, u would think retailers would bw trying to get rid of these things. 360 is as low as $99 and PS3 as low as $149 yet Wii U is still $299 at most big retailers on black friday.


I'm gonna guess retailers weren't happy that they overstocked Wii U for much of the year and aren't willing to take any loss on existing inventory. Nintendo may also not be willing to eat a further loss for Black Friday sales. 

That and Black Friday deals generally tend to center around products people actually want, lol, maybe retailers feel Wii U just isn't a big ticket item. 

I just figured there would be, even Vita was $179-199 with a game last year.



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zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:
zorg1000 said:

The weird thing is havent seen many good holiday deals, u would think retailers would bw trying to get rid of these things. 360 is as low as $99 and PS3 as low as $149 yet Wii U is still $299 at most big retailers on black friday.


I'm gonna guess retailers weren't happy that they overstocked Wii U for much of the year and aren't willing to take any loss on existing inventory. Nintendo may also not be willing to eat a further loss for Black Friday sales. 

That and Black Friday deals generally tend to center around products people actually want, lol, maybe retailers feel Wii U just isn't a big ticket item. 

I just figured there would be, even Vita was $179-199 with a game last year.

And this year, zilch for Vita. Just one deal on a memory card lol. WiiU has a couple of bundle deals at least.



 

Honestly I'm starting to think the Wii U is not going to be able to match the GameCube's LTD in North America.



Soundwave said:
Honestly I'm starting to think the Wii U is not going to be able to match the GameCube's LTD in North America.


It's lagging behind by 1 million units. I mean it's definitely a possibility. But not just in America, because it's doing far worse in Europe!



 

EricFabian said:
bubblegamer said:
Lawlight said:
So, 12M for Pokemon doesn't look so bad all of a sudden, right?


A little low. 14 million max is what the numbers are telling us.

do you think X/Y will flop on holidays?

14 million is a flop?



I just can't see a console with the name *wii* in it failing to match GC numbers, I just can't. I guess stranger things have happened...



Predictions for LT console sales:

PS4: 120M

XB1: 70M

WiiU: 14M

3DS: 60M

Vita: 13M