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Soundwave on 11 December 2013

Cranky Kong will save the Wii U. ;)



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trestres on 11 December 2013

I'm gonna say something positive for the Wii U. Never did the PS3 sell as much during the comparable week of the year on previous years, so that's impressive. However I'm gonna have to say something negative as well, Wii behaved like this during the second half of its life, with huge spikes on holidays, and abysmal drops when they were over.



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aikohualda on 11 December 2013
justinian said:
aikohualda said:
"its only a week blah blah blah" comments from sony fans... same people who cums everytime vita sells more than 30k in japan


It's not only Sony fans, as yes I know you are relating it to the vita.

i wont mention name but yes most of the are sony fans and i am talking specifically to sony fans....



 

Fusioncode on 12 December 2013
Viper1 said:
Fusioncode said:

I'm not saying it's not worthy of note, it's clearly a good thing. And I'm happy the WiiU is finding some success after a miserable last few months. I just don't think people should be celebrating just yet, this doesn't prove that the WiiU is going to become a success in Japan. What if it starts dropping down to 3k unitswhen the holidays are over? I think we should wait and see how the WiiU stabilizes after the holidays are over. If it's still doing well then we'll throw a party for it.

And indeed we will keep an eye for how things pan out for the rest of the year and beyond.  We know we need to keep a watch on it.  You can be damn certain the negative fanboys will be.

But why in the world is it wrong to make note of the fact that Wii U was 8 weeks ago selling between 3k and 5k and after some good bundles, a few games and the beginning of the holiday period that it's had a nice progression from abysmal to respectable?

Nobody is breaking out the champaign claiming the Wii U is now a success.  It's merely an observation of the current trend of the past 8 weeks.  And the trend is very positive.   What arbitrary point must be passed before an observational trend can be commented upon?  Must we ignore all positive aspects (sales increases, proportionality of total home console sales, rate of increase by comparison, etc...) until that arbitrary time frame?

And what then?  Say it maintains until that arbitrary limit.  Will a new arbitrary limit be demanded?  Must we wait until then for some other confirmation of positve trends?

Negative Wii U threads are thrown around mutliple times every day but as soon as a positive Wii U thread is made, suddenly, it has requirements and conditions and isn't worthy of note by many of those very same people that toss out the negative threads while claiming their just being real.

I'm tired of negative fanboys shitting all over the streets of Wii U every day and then raining on the Wii U parade when it comes around once every few months.

I didn't say it was wrong. I just said it was too early to celebrate, I didn't throw a party when the Vita jumped to 80k for one week. 



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Viper1 on 12 December 2013
Fusioncode said:

I didn't say it was wrong. I just said it was too early to celebrate, I didn't throw a party when the Vita jumped to 80k for one week. 

Perhaps you didn't.  But did you inform everyone in all those Vita threads that others made that they shouldn't be making such threads as you are in this one for Wii U?



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Fusioncode on 12 December 2013
Viper1 said:
Fusioncode said:

I didn't say it was wrong. I just said it was too early to celebrate, I didn't throw a party when the Vita jumped to 80k for one week. 

Perhaps you didn't.  But did you inform everyone in all those Vita threads that others made that they shouldn't be making such threads as you are in this one for Wii U?

I don't know, maybe? That was like 4 months ago. I can't remember. 



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forest-spirit on 12 December 2013

Pretty solid performance all things considered. Hopefully next week will be just as good.

I also hope that abuse of the word "doom" becomes a bannable offence again.



EricFabian on 12 December 2013
ryuzaki57 said:
DanneSandin said:
ryuzaki57 said:
WiiU will have a decent Xmas. It will be back to doom status after new year when Xmas shoppers are back home.

Yeah, unfortunately the doom of Vita will never catch a break... It's been doomed for a year, is still doomed during holidays and will return to being doomed after the holidays... that's sad.

Vita has more 3rd party titles scheduled for 2014 than any other system in Japan, it can't die. WiiU has only one (Watchdogs, which is not going to help)


Wii U has more 1st party titles (etc... the same of your post). Vita has... none.



tbone51 on 12 December 2013
Fusioncode said:
Viper1 said:
Fusioncode said:

I didn't say it was wrong. I just said it was too early to celebrate, I didn't throw a party when the Vita jumped to 80k for one week. 

Perhaps you didn't.  But did you inform everyone in all those Vita threads that others made that they shouldn't be making such threads as you are in this one for Wii U?

I don't know, maybe? That was like 4 months ago. I can't remember. 

bro that was like 3 weeks ago!



Fusioncode on 12 December 2013
tbone51 said:
Fusioncode said:
Viper1 said:
Fusioncode said:

I didn't say it was wrong. I just said it was too early to celebrate, I didn't throw a party when the Vita jumped to 80k for one week. 

Perhaps you didn't.  But did you inform everyone in all those Vita threads that others made that they shouldn't be making such threads as you are in this one for Wii U?

I don't know, maybe? That was like 4 months ago. I can't remember. 

bro that was like 3 weeks ago!

What really? I have a very short memory. And Vita dropped like a rock. 



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