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Mummelmann on 11 February 2014
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:

January last year was 57k in US, this year VGC has 109k? Why the 100% YoY increase?

Down 38k YOY in Japan, it's possible that WiiU is down WW as well.

I assume WW is World Wide.... This thread compares 2013 with 2014 World Wide/Global sales of the Wii U... Week 1 to Week 5 of 2014 is 14.3+ % up from Week 1 to Week 5 of 2013.

Yes it is, and I think it's overtracked. I don't see any reason WiiU would be up in US (and Europe for that matter) so much YoY. NPD is this Thursday so we'll find out.

You make me laugh... Oh boy... You are one of those narrow minded individuals...

Why it would't? It has now a well enstablished library of games, a lot of exclusives are out now and more are coming this year...

I guess you forgot Super Mario 3D World got released in November and games from Nintendo have "long legs"...

I smell denial...

Here's that attitude of yours again. Why don't you reply to my post in here when you clearly "have the time" to discuss with others? Lay the "well deserved smackdown", show everyone who's boss. If you're not the boss; then lay away the horrible attitude. Heck; even if you are the boss, do it anyway!

Do I need to re-post the link to your late December tread to juxtapose with your ideas of narrow-mindedness and denial?

You should ease up on the fire and brimstone towards others, or you run the risk of looking silly again, there's no need for being so rude all the time.



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Seece on 11 February 2014
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:

January last year was 57k in US, this year VGC has 109k? Why the 100% YoY increase?

Down 38k YOY in Japan, it's possible that WiiU is down WW as well.

I assume WW is World Wide.... This thread compares 2013 with 2014 World Wide/Global sales of the Wii U... Week 1 to Week 5 of 2014 is 14.3+ % up from Week 1 to Week 5 of 2013.

Yes it is, and I think it's overtracked. I don't see any reason WiiU would be up in US (and Europe for that matter) so much YoY. NPD is this Thursday so we'll find out.

You make me laugh... Oh boy... You are one of those narrow minded individuals...

Why it would't? It has now a well enstablished library of games, a lot of exclusives are out now and more are coming this year...

I guess you forgot Super Mario 3D World got released in November and games from Nintendo have "long legs"...

I smell denial...

I'm narrow minded because I think it's overtracked (which this site has a tendancy for?) Ok then.

I smell backtracking come thursday ... the only time WiiU has managed over 100k is in a holiday month. It was barely up YOY in Dec, (21k I believe) which is about 4%? Yet you think it's perfectly normal for it to be up 95% YoY in January.




 

Seece on 11 February 2014
zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:

January last year was 57k in US, this year VGC has 109k? Why the 100% YoY increase?

Down 38k YOY in Japan, it's possible that WiiU is down WW as well.

I assume WW is World Wide.... This thread compares 2013 with 2014 World Wide/Global sales of the Wii U... Week 1 to Week 5 of 2014 is 14.3+ % up from Week 1 to Week 5 of 2013.

Yes it is, and I think it's overtracked. I don't see any reason WiiU would be up in US (and Europe for that matter) so much YoY. NPD is this Thursday so we'll find out.

Lower price of entry, $299 with no games last year vs $299 with 2 games and 4x storage in 2014. Increased library of games, Lego City, Monster Hunter, Pikmin, Wind Waker, Mario 3D World, Wii Party U are just some of the notable releases since this time last year. Also historically America is by far Nintendo's strongest market. NES, N64, GC all had over 50% of worldwide sales.

Did nothing for December sales YOY, why would it do anything for January?



 

Seece on 11 February 2014

Actually I smell Zero, has this guy been checked for being an alt account?



 

Mummelmann on 11 February 2014
Seece said:
Actually I smell Zero, has this guy been checked for being an alt account?


I think they should have a go at vicuna and kaizar first; those seem like more than two peas in a pod...



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Seece on 11 February 2014
Mummelmann said:
Seece said:
Actually I smell Zero, has this guy been checked for being an alt account?


I think they should have a go at vicuna and kaizar first; those seem like more than two peas in a pod...


Place would be better with any of them (but less funny I have to admit :P)

NPD this Thursday will be fun.



 

eyeofcore on 11 February 2014
Seece said:
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:

January last year was 57k in US, this year VGC has 109k? Why the 100% YoY increase?

Down 38k YOY in Japan, it's possible that WiiU is down WW as well.

I assume WW is World Wide.... This thread compares 2013 with 2014 World Wide/Global sales of the Wii U... Week 1 to Week 5 of 2014 is 14.3+ % up from Week 1 to Week 5 of 2013.

Yes it is, and I think it's overtracked. I don't see any reason WiiU would be up in US (and Europe for that matter) so much YoY. NPD is this Thursday so we'll find out.

You make me laugh... Oh boy... You are one of those narrow minded individuals...

Why it would't? It has now a well enstablished library of games, a lot of exclusives are out now and more are coming this year...

I guess you forgot Super Mario 3D World got released in November and games from Nintendo have "long legs"...

I smell denial...

I'm narrow minded because I think it's overtracked (which this site has a tendancy for?) Ok then. Nope...

You are narrow minded because you ignore now well enstablished library with over 100-150+ games with a lot of exclusives that are out now and that are going to be released... Wii U's 300$ SKU is not 8GB storage without any bundled games anymore, now it is 32GB storage with one or two games bundled... Nintendo now markets its console more agressively than before...

I guess you don't understand concept of changes, things change and situations change like it happened with PlayStation 3 and with 3DS... "Miracles" happen... DS was expect to flop and it sold gangbusters and so did Wii.

Just because Wii U sold poorly/badly does not mean that sales won't improve and that the trend would continue...

I smell backtracking come thursday ... the only time WiiU has managed over 100k is in a holiday month. It was barely up YOY in Dec, (21k I believe) which is about 4%? Yet you think it's perfectly normal for it to be up 95% YoY in January.

Just because Wii U managed 100K only in holiday months does not mean that it can't do that this year before holiday months... Are you intentionally ignoring exclusives that will be out on Wii U? The increased value that it has now than year before it got a price drop for its "Deluxe" SKU that is now primary SKU while "Basic" SKU is practically discontinued... It has an appealing library of games... Do you have Monster Hunter on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No... Do you have Nintendo franchises on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No... Do you have Bayonetta 2, Sonic Boom, FAST Racing Neo on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No...

Things change... If things don't change then Wii would still keep selling gangbusters and PlayStation 3 would continued to have poor sales, 3DS would have been in bad position and Xbox 360 would still have a considerable lead over PlayStation 3...





DanneSandin on 11 February 2014

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eyeofcore on 11 February 2014
Seece said:
zorg1000 said:
Seece said:
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:

January last year was 57k in US, this year VGC has 109k? Why the 100% YoY increase?

Down 38k YOY in Japan, it's possible that WiiU is down WW as well.

I assume WW is World Wide.... This thread compares 2013 with 2014 World Wide/Global sales of the Wii U... Week 1 to Week 5 of 2014 is 14.3+ % up from Week 1 to Week 5 of 2013.

Yes it is, and I think it's overtracked. I don't see any reason WiiU would be up in US (and Europe for that matter) so much YoY. NPD is this Thursday so we'll find out.

Lower price of entry, $299 with no games last year vs $299 with 2 games and 4x storage in 2014. Increased library of games, Lego City, Monster Hunter, Pikmin, Wind Waker, Mario 3D World, Wii Party U are just some of the notable releases since this time last year. Also historically America is by far Nintendo's strongest market. NES, N64, GC all had over 50% of worldwide sales.

Did nothing for December sales YOY, why would it do anything for January?


That's a lie and you know it... If there wasn't for price drop, couple of exclusives being released and Super Mario 3D World being released in November then Wii U could have literally flopped in 2013's holidays... Price drop and Super Mario 3D World saved the day.

Wii U would't sell that well in holidays of 2013 without price drop and Super Mario 3D World. Factual.



Seece on 11 February 2014
eyeofcore said:
Seece said:

I'm narrow minded because I think it's overtracked (which this site has a tendancy for?) Ok then. Nope...

You are narrow minded because you ignore now well enstablished library with over 100-150+ games with a lot of exclusives that are out now and that are going to be released... Wii U's 300$ SKU is not 8GB storage without any bundled games anymore, now it is 32GB storage with one or two games bundled... Nintendo now markets its console more agressively than before...

I guess you don't understand concept of changes, things change and situations change like it happened with PlayStation 3 and with 3DS... "Miracles" happen... DS was expect to flop and it sold gangbusters and so did Wii.

Just because Wii U sold poorly/badly does not mean that sales won't improve and that the trend would continue...

I smell backtracking come thursday ... the only time WiiU has managed over 100k is in a holiday month. It was barely up YOY in Dec, (21k I believe) which is about 4%? Yet you think it's perfectly normal for it to be up 95% YoY in January.

Just because Wii U managed 100K only in holiday months does not mean that it can't do that this year before holiday months... Are you intentionally ignoring exclusives that will be out on Wii U? The increased value that it has now than year before it got a price drop for its "Deluxe" SKU that is now primary SKU while "Basic" SKU is practically discontinued... It has an appealing library of games... Do you have Monster Hunter on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No... Do you have Nintendo franchises on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No... Do you have Bayonetta 2, Sonic Boom, FAST Racing Neo on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? No...

Things change... If things don't change then Wii would still keep selling gangbusters and PlayStation 3 would continued to have poor sales, 3DS would have been in bad position and Xbox 360 would still have a considerable lead over PlayStation 3...



And sometimes, things don't change. Xbox, Gamecube ect. Don't think whatever these companies do is magical and infallible and HAS to work, because sometimes it doesn't

Anyway you completely ignored the logic.

WiiU had all of those things in December in the US and was up 4%. Yet you think in January it's fine for it to be up 95%.