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Licence on 18 December 2013

Japantendo! Is this the start of the Wii U revival?



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Boutros on 18 December 2013

Impressive for the Wii U.

But what's with the huge difference of Wii U software sales between Famitsu and Media Create??



PandaGames on 18 December 2013

If only we had this Wii U support in Europe and America...



 

POE on 18 December 2013

Go Wii U!!!



tbone51 on 18 December 2013
Boutros said:
Impressive for the Wii U.

But what's with the huge difference of Wii U software sales between Famitsu and Media Create??


Media Creat doesn't include bundles as sales (software)



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Boutros on 18 December 2013
tbone51 said:
Boutros said:
Impressive for the Wii U.

But what's with the huge difference of Wii U software sales between Famitsu and Media Create??


Media Creat doesn't include bundles as sales (software)

How many games are bundled with the Wii U in Japan? :/



Soundwave on 18 December 2013

Really good Wii U sales, however Nintendo tends to get these types of bumps during the December gift giving ramp up. Jan-November are as usual a lot tougher. We'll see what happens. Oh well. I'm happy that Mario 3D World will probably kick/scratch/claw its way to 500k-600k in Japan, then they can probably bundle it with the Wii U there for next holiday.

Holy crap at Puzzles & Dragons ... looks like that might end up being the 2nd highest 3DS third party game. Wonder if that alters how Nintendo views the cell phone gaming business.

The strange thing though is 3DS hardware sales in Japan are really slipping behind last year's total.



Carl on 18 December 2013

A distinct lack of Wii U software in the Top 30 outside of Super Mario 3D World and Taiko indicates this is a pretty good bump from Mario to go along with the Holidays, though Nintendo consoles tend to do really well in Japan in December.

Mario is selling systems people.



                            

Seece on 18 December 2013
RolStoppable said:
ethomaz said:

benao87 said:

Should we put those words in the same part where we put your prediction about PS3 being flat YOY?

Flat? I said PS3 will be near flat in Japan... not flat... that's means less than 10% down yoy and no way the crazy 30% like some guys thinks here.

And if you check the numbers....

2012: 1,122,851
2013: 794,696

More three weeks of data do sum in 2013... 1,122k - 10% = ~1,000k... 200k in three weeks is hard to happen but it will be close.

The 2012 number you are looking at is YTD, meaning that at this point it excludes a couple of weeks of 2012. Thus the percentage the PS3 will be down year over year by the end of this year will most likely be the same as it is right now. Which is approximately 30%.

Was about to call you out but you're right, even using that 1,122 figure it'll be down 25%.

Using the 1,223 figure it'll be down ... 30%.



 

naruball on 18 December 2013
benao87 said:
ethomaz said:

And GT6 started to get close to the GT5 weekly sales... I won't be surprise if next week it sell better than GT5 third week.

GT5 3rd week in Japan: 23.929

Take my words... GT6 will catch GT5 in Japan... it will end close... some guys will eat some crows due the early "flop" .


Should we put those words in the same part where we put your prediction about PS3 being flat YOY?

Just curious. Did you make a similar remark about Zero's predictions after his 10m wiu's sold prediction? At least be consistent. People make bad predictions all the time. Doesn't mean they're not allowed to make another prediction if they fail once.

OT: Good to see wiiu getting the sales it deserves. Vita is at least not horrible, but definitely not great considering how much everything else increased.