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Forums - Sales - WW HW and SW Up 11th January 2014

Mummelmann on 21 January 2014

Been a gone a few days, nothing mindblowing appears to be happening, all is pretty much as expected.



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binary solo on 22 January 2014
Aerys said:
Oh wait ! X1 is doing 13k in the UK and 20k in europe?!!

So less than 7k in France + Germany ?

And the rest, 8 or 9 continental countries at the moment right? Which makes only 7K seem a tad bit low. If it isn't too low then wow!



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Raven on 22 January 2014

Sigh... Wii U(nderwhelming)

Big drops for everything.



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binary solo on 22 January 2014
superhippy420 said:
pezus said:
generic-user-1 said:
as long as it stays above 40k till DK comes out its okay.

Which it won't.

And DK ain't saving nothing. It will sell well to the existing userbase but not much beyond that. The real test is Mario Kart.


DK will have a bigger impact then people are giving it credit for.   DKCR sold 6.1 million on Wii and 1.2 million on the 3DS (almost identical to Uncharted PS3/Vita numbers).   On top of that Donkey Kong has been used much less then Mario over the last decade and I wouldnt be shocked if more people are anticipating the new DKC then they did SM3DW, expecially with how well received DKCR was by everyone.   On top of that it's the only next-gen exclusive coming out in February, and has the most brand recognition out of anything being released by far that month.   Not saying it will boost it past PS4, but making up that 50k gap between the Wii U and Xbox One is pretty realistic.

So it sold to about 7% of the Wii install base. Not much really. It's rather reaching to think a DK game can maintain sales levels beyond the uptick in HW the week of release and maybe a week or 2 after. People need to stop putting reliance on old franchises as the way for Wii U to substantially improve. None of those franchises made GC competetive, and none of those franchises put N64 atthe head of its generation, and none of those franchises were what secured the 7th gen for Wii.



“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."

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binary solo on 22 January 2014

Wii U on W/E 12 Jan 2013 was 48K, less than half of what Xb one just sold.



“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

 

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Normchacho on 22 January 2014

Bad news for Vita, Wii U, and Xbox One.

Vita: Things need to change for the Vita soon as it's pretty much dead in the water in N.A. Marketing for it has not been great and it's pretty much just a PS4 add on at this point.

Wii U: If things don't pick up for the Wii U soon I wouldn't be surprised to see some large and possibly shocking changes take place at Nintendo. Perhaps the new games coming out will bolster it, we can only hope.

Xbox One: N.A. is fine although I think it's days of outselling the PS4 there are numbered. Europe is very nearly a disaster. If the numbers don't improve then MS could end up in a situation where they are relying even more on N.A. than they were during the last generation and that could be disastrous. There are only so many sales to come out of the U.S. and if MS can't maintain the lead there they had with the 360 it could cost them dearly.



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ExPress on 22 January 2014

wtf. gt6 last week - 2,1 m.

gta 6 now - 1,8  m.

and many other games have such problems.



fatslob-:O on 22 January 2014

I wonder what will happen in the next few consecutive weeks ...



KingofTrolls on 22 January 2014
fatslob-:O said:
I wonder what will happen in the next few consecutive weeks ...


Drops.



fatslob-:O on 22 January 2014
KingofTrolls said:
fatslob-:O said:
I wonder what will happen in the next few consecutive weeks ...


Drops.

That much is obvious, however I was mostly thinking if PS4 is going to take the lead in the majority of the next consecutive weeks in comparison to the 3DS.