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Forums - Nintendo - To Wii U "Haters": Why Do You Think Wii U Will Sell On The Same Level Or Worse Than GameCube?

Max King of the Wild on 17 December 2013
Soundwave said:


It could be. I tend to be a little generous in my guesstimates. 


Id guess 250. This year NA has less shopping days.



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Soundwave on 17 December 2013
Max King of the Wild said:
Soundwave said:


It could be. I tend to be a little generous in my guesstimates. 


Id guess 250. This year NA has less shopping days.


220 to 250 is a pretty low bump though even by Nintendo standards. They tend to bump a little higher than that from Nov to Dec. 



sepoer on 17 December 2013

I have wii u and I just can't ignore the fact. So I don't have much faith for wiiu. I only want Zelda HD, metroid HD, and ps4. Lol



binary solo on 17 December 2013

People who don't get excited about franchising in gaming (i.e. a lot of people who's first ever console was Wii, look at all these franchise titles coming out and say "Aren't these the same games that I bought for my Wii? Why would I buy another console just to play the same games again?" And as far as they're concerned an HD upgrade on those games isn't enough of a difference.

And could you get a more cliche, meaningless, boring, unimaginative, and 90's title for a game than "Super Mario 3D World"?



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

 

BMaker11 on 17 December 2013

Because we can legitimately say, this time around: WiiU is just 2 Gamecubes duct taped together. At least Wii had the appeal of waggle, which drove MS and Sony to make Move and Kinect. Now that that's gone, people don't see it worth getting.

Don't give me a games' list either. Mario, Zelda, Smash, Pikmin, Metroid, Mario Kart, etc. didn't save the Gamecube or N64 from being completely dominated, and the SNES was the last time Nintendo had any kind of support outside of itself.



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chapset on 17 December 2013
Soundwave said:
chapset said:
Nintentacle said:
chapset said:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=170598&page=-1#1
look at the gamecube numbers than look at the wii u's and be sad

I already knew GameCube is tracking ahead of Wii U, but didn't Wii U used to be ahead of PS360? Anything could happen. Remember when Vita was going to dominate? The exact opposite happened.

when was the vita going to dominate, did you listen to gilgamesh again? wii U ahead of the ps360? first month maybe, the situation changed really fast after that. The ps3 did around 5.7 mill the first 11months (jan-07 to novem-07)of it's first year, the wii u did around 2mill (jan-13 to november-13)

 

That PS3/Wii U number you're citing is worldwide sales, no? 

yes, it's even worst when you realise the ps3 wasn't out till near the end of march (07) in EU while the wii U was available everywhere during the corresponding period (2013)



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.

Barozi on 17 December 2013

WiiU had a better launch than 360, but got rather quickly passed by the 360 again after half a year.
The PS3 launched in Europe much later, so that's why the WiiU did more at first. With European sales the PS3 did better.
And yeah it's tracking well below the Gamecube, so that's the main reason I think.



sales2099 on 17 December 2013

I don't hate the WiiU, but I do know that Nintendo can only win if they play by their own rules (Wii). Playing by Sony/MS's rules.....they don't have a prayer.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

Max King of the Wild on 17 December 2013
drake4 said:

the ps3 numers are so low cause of 2 main reasons, one is the ps3 launched in europe 5 months later, europe is ps3 strongest region, so ps3  1st year numbers don't really show the whole picture and the second reason is 599$, that was way too over priced for a consoel back then.


Dont forget Wii U has been out longer than a year now and sales arent picking up. Youll see ps3 drasticly pulling ahead from here on out in comparisons



Soundwave on 17 December 2013
sales2099 said:
I don't hate the WiiU, but I do know that Nintendo can only win if they play by their own rules (Wii). Playing by Sony/MS's rules.....they don't have a prayer.


They've never really released a system playing by Sony/MS rules though. The GameCube was the closest and they basically sabotaged that console by changing all their major franchises, losing Rare and not replacing them, and making the system the most toy-like design possible, despite trying to push games like Resident Evil and Metroid Prime. 

Unless you mean "playing by MS/Sony's rules" as in losing tons of money on hardware and just considering a it write off?