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zorg1000 on 18 December 2013
Madword said:
Personally i don't get all the "well done Nintendo, its doing great".

It's competing against 6 year's older hardware. I know its starting from a bad base, so any increase looks good, but its only 74k, that still seems pretty low to me....

Has anyone got any Japan data for the second xmas for Wii, PS3 and Xbox360.. would love to see what those sales were... perhaps that will straighten out my apathy to those results :)

In the same week of 2007 PS3 sold 60k and Wii sold 170k



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zorg1000 on 18 December 2013
Mummelmann said:
NavyNut said:
The 360 did horrible during the second christmas and I believe the PS3 as well. The WiiU is not doing worst than the 360 during its first year.


Actually, the 360 sold about 6.7-6.8 (twice or more over what the Wii U will likely do) million in its first full calendar year and sold close to 3 million in its second holiday after both the record breaking Wii and the PS3 had released.

The PS3 sold almost 8 million first full year with a staggered launch and roughly 3.5 million in its second holiday season, or roughly 200-500k more than the Wii U's likely numbers for the whole CY 2013.

It's pretty damn bad, I think a lot of people don't realize just how bad. And nothing in your post it remotely close to being true.

Considering this is a thread about japan sales im pretty sure thats what hes talking about, ur using worldwide sales



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Mummelmann on 18 December 2013
zorg1000 said:
Mummelmann said:
NavyNut said:
The 360 did horrible during the second christmas and I believe the PS3 as well. The WiiU is not doing worst than the 360 during its first year.


Actually, the 360 sold about 6.7-6.8 (twice or more over what the Wii U will likely do) million in its first full calendar year and sold close to 3 million in its second holiday after both the record breaking Wii and the PS3 had released.

The PS3 sold almost 8 million first full year with a staggered launch and roughly 3.5 million in its second holiday season, or roughly 200-500k more than the Wii U's likely numbers for the whole CY 2013.

It's pretty damn bad, I think a lot of people don't realize just how bad. And nothing in your post it remotely close to being true.

Considering this is a thread about japan sales im pretty sure thats what hes talking about, ur using worldwide sales


Well, that's even worse if that's the case. Using the 360 in Japan as a metric to measure success is... strange.

Besides; the PS3 sold about 1.3 million in Japan in the first full calendar year even though it had competition, from the Wii no less, the Wii U is competing with 7-8 year old consoles and only recently started beating them. There's really no way to spin this into a great achievement.



Madword on 18 December 2013
zorg1000 said:
Madword said:
Personally i don't get all the "well done Nintendo, its doing great".

It's competing against 6 year's older hardware. I know its starting from a bad base, so any increase looks good, but its only 74k, that still seems pretty low to me....

Has anyone got any Japan data for the second xmas for Wii, PS3 and Xbox360.. would love to see what those sales were... perhaps that will straighten out my apathy to those results :)

In the same week of 2007 PS3 sold 60k and Wii sold 170k

Ok so thats interesting information, thanks for that Zorg.

What was PS3's worst month before then in it's first year?

All consoles can do better than poor if the right software comes along, how many times has Vita jumped up to 60k etc. Just trying to get a sense of is this just a blip and it will drop off the map again come January, or is it a sustained recover (personally i think its the first). I still dont think this console will do more than 40m before its successor comes out.

But more sales is always good regardless of the reason :)



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AZWification on 18 December 2013

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dark_gh0st_b0y on 18 December 2013
superhippy420 said:
Those are much better Wii U numbers for Japan. This Hyrule Warriors game is going to be huge over there. I am sure in the US they will sell some to the hardcore Nintendo fans but Dynasty Warriors over there is MASSIVE. I think Nintendo is trying to tap in to the Japan market more then ever now since Wii U sales in Europe are so bad.

that's it probably!

something similar happened with the 3DS, first Japan and then the rest

they can't do much in the West without the 3rd parties anyway


some right marketing for Wii Sports U, Wii Fit U, along with MK8 and later SS can push ok numbers in US and Europe later on, and then some 3rd parties may jump in

this is why I predict WiiU will win the generation afterall



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Viper1 on 18 December 2013
Mummelmann said:

Well, that's even worse if that's the case. Using the 360 in Japan as a metric to measure success is... strange.

Besides; the PS3 sold about 1.3 million in Japan in the first full calendar year even though it had competition, from the Wii no less, the Wii U is competing with 7-8 year old consoles and only recently started beating them. There's really no way to spin this into a great achievement.

Comparing the Wii U against past consoles is going to make it look bad.  What this thread is alluding to is the past performance of the Wii U itself.  Which is indeed much better.  And the rate of change seen for the holiday bump is quite a lot higher for Wii U than other consoles.   That must have a lot to do with having the right marketing and games right now.

Will it do well with upcoming consoles on the shelves too?  Hard to say but it's certainly doing much better than it was 8 weeks ago which is why there is celebration lately.

I believe it fair that a console can celebrate an acheivement against itself and not just against competition. Do we not celebrate when we succeed after previous failure?



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burninmylight on 18 December 2013
Viper1 said:
Mummelmann said:

Well, that's even worse if that's the case. Using the 360 in Japan as a metric to measure success is... strange.

Besides; the PS3 sold about 1.3 million in Japan in the first full calendar year even though it had competition, from the Wii no less, the Wii U is competing with 7-8 year old consoles and only recently started beating them. There's really no way to spin this into a great achievement.

Comparing the Wii U against past consoles is going to make it look bad.  What this thread is alluding to is the past performance of the Wii U itself.  Which is indeed much better.  And the rate of change seen for the holiday bump is quite a lot higher for Wii U than other consoles.   That must have a lot to do with having the right marketing and games right now.

Will it do well with upcoming consoles on the shelves too?  Hard to say but it's certainly doing much better than it was 8 weeks ago which is why there is celebration lately.

I believe it fair that a console can celebrate an acheivement against itself and not just against competition. Do we not celebrate when we succeed after previous failure?

You get an applause from me. I bet there was no shortage of PS3 celebration threads when that console's arrow started pointing up.



JoeTheBro on 18 December 2013

Hopefully this is the begining of a turn around and not just a holiday bump. Fingers crossed!



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Conina on 18 December 2013
DamnTastic said:
so what the fuck is PDZ?

Perfect Dark Zero ;)

or Pazudora Z (Puzzle & Dragons Z)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW6whBpPoAY