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Max King of the Wild on 19 December 2013

after 53 weeks
Wii U - 1.26mil
Ps3 - 1.34

(Your numbers are wrong)

Fact checking would help you.

On top of which, heres where your spin gets called out

Weeks till Christmas
Wii U - 1.5
Ps3 - 6.5

It helps that Wii U launched in Dec and Ps3 launched in early November.
At the end of the year Ps3 had 1.69mil. Want to do the comparison on its 60th week? that would mean Wii U needs to sell 60k a week in the next 7 weeks to accomplish Ps3 sales... do you think it will happen?



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Seece on 19 December 2013

Of all places Japan is WiiU's best bet to increase sales and carve out a userbase, still this is too early to base any long term comparison on, WiiU had a really healthy launch didn't it?



 

FrancisNobleman on 19 December 2013

The PS3 actually was selling even worse.

This is not a good achievement at all lol



outlawauron on 19 December 2013
leyendax69 said:
Well, doing better than Vita is not an accomplishment. And PS3 had full third party support unlike what will happen to wii u. Besides sony systems usually sells more years.

You are very young.



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Conegamer on 19 December 2013

Eh, not overly impressive when you consider the relative circumstances.

But I guess you've gotta take everything you can.



 

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NintendoPie on 19 December 2013

What a sad, sad world we live in. Comparing the worse off to the worser off (in the beginning... well for one of them.) to get some type of gain. When the Wii U actually starts doing good, not just "better" then these threads should be made.



Nem on 19 December 2013

Where are those crow loving people? xD

Doooooom! I tell you!



small44 on 19 December 2013
RolStoppable said:
Carl2291 said:
This isnt a great achievement all things considered, when you consider just how disastrous the PS3's first Year was and how shitty the Vita has done there.

PS3 sold so badly that it lost Final Fantasy and Resident Evil exclusivity, never got a worthwhile Monster Hunter, didnt get Dragon Quest and even Tales, Star Ocean and many others went to the competition.

New Super Mario Bros. U has already outsold EVERY single PS3 launch game in Japan.

But Vita's sales were good enough to pick up increasingly more third party support, so the Wii U is saved.

Third party support increase because even small games sold well despite the low install base but wii u had bad hardware and software sale.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

Ninjahound101 on 19 December 2013
drake4 said:
anthony64641 said:

What do you guys predict will happen next?

during the shortage of games people was sure that the WiiU was destine for failur. Sales seem to be putting out in all regioins, so can Nintendo Really turn this  console around? like they did with the 3DS?

First Year (52 weeks0

PS3-1,27955

WiiU-1,219,474

PSV-1,074,621

 

First 54 Weeks (WiiU LTD)

WiiU-1,343139

PS3-1,341,304

PSvita 1,110,333

 

Maybe the WiiU isnt as doom as everyone would like us to believe. Look at the Xbox One, before it even came out  base on all the hype of ps4 and everyone saying it "sucks", its selling pretty good.

well the vita is dead, it has no life, the wiiu will never reach ps3 numbers because its not gonna have thirdparty support, and it didn't start off at 599$, and won't last as long as the ps3, because ps3 is selling much better world wide then wiiu at this point.


PS3 got a pre-launch price cut, it was really close to the price of Wii U super bundles in a better economy

it could be like the 3DS a slow first year and a few monstorous years afterward



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small44 on 19 December 2013
Arius Dion said:
PS3 was a real dud. Vita an even bigger dud. Wii U another dud. I don't think there will be another Sony handheld. But I'm positive there will be another Nintendo Console.

Psp does well ,vita not the next could be another vita but it could also be another psp and sold well if their 3rd handheld will fail then i think Sony will abondon compleatly handheld market.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m