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Hamister on 12 February 2014

The biggest surpise to me is how steady Wii U sales are compared to previous week, even though there is a software drought. Does this point to a potential, and quite massive, resurgence of Wii U sales once Nintendo has solved the software issues? Hard to tell... but to me we should have seen a dramatic drop in Wii U sales this week because of the software drought. My only conclusion is that Nintendo's casual strategy for Japan is slowly kicking in with the likes of Wii Party U and Wii Fit U (and in some respect even games such as New Super Mario Bros U and Super Mario 3D World). It's both impressive and tragic at the same time that most of the software driving Wii U sales in Japan are atleast 3 months old. However this suggests the system actually has potential if and when Nintendo manages to release more games.



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FiveOVER on 12 February 2014
Kresnik said:
FiveOVER said:
Any major vita releases next week? Kinda worried.


Narp.  Next Vita releases of any form (that I'm aware of) are Deception IV; Infinite Stratos & Phantom Breaker Battle Grounds on Feb 27th.  Then after that there's a run of releases for the month of March starting with Soul Sacrifice Delta.

Gonna be a rough two weeks!  PS4 release is probably going to overshadow anything on any console in 11 days, though.


Thanks for the info. Gonna wish for a miracle to happen, that Ps4 would boost vita sales.



orniletter on 12 February 2014
Train wreck said:

*mumbles under breath* haha what 3DS peak year?! (-80k from last year with a new game)...recent trend continues of new 3ds games with high opening weeks doing nothing for the 3DS.

Anywho, Famitsu also came out with their majority PS4 reviews...even Knack got at 70%, Yakuza at 39/40...look for the PS4 to do wonders in Japan. Hopefully Yakuza sales will propel 3rd parties in japan to finally get off the snide and start producing for the system.


Famitsu scores are as worthless as reviews can get.

...and there is no need to mumble, everyone who has seen you posting knows how over the moon you are because of the first paragraph.



orniletter on 12 February 2014

Anyway, the Gundam game looks pretty cool.

I might just import one...because we won´t get a single one of them ... :/

...to wikipedia !

 

Edit: There are even Vita games ! ...to play-asia !



MDMAlliance on 12 February 2014
Train wreck said:

*mumbles under breath* haha what 3DS peak year?! (-80k from last year with a new game)...recent trend continues of new 3ds games with high opening weeks doing nothing for the 3DS.

Anywho, Famitsu also came out with their majority PS4 reviews...even Knack got at 70%, Yakuza at 39/40...look for the PS4 to do wonders in Japan. Hopefully Yakuza sales will propel 3rd parties in japan to finally get off the snide and start producing for the system.

Your username really fits you.  Not many people at all on this site claimed 2014 as its peak year.  Most said 2013.



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tbone51 on 12 February 2014
FiveOVER said:
Any major vita releases next week? Kinda worried.


no need to be, vita will sell between 30k-60k per week in march.



Conegamer on 12 February 2014
Kresnik said:
Conegamer said:
So a pretty slow week for 3DS despite DQ launching, I expected a bigger boost. Vita holding pretty well, and so it should be, Terraria seems respectable.

As for Wii U...I just don't know what to say anymore. At least it seems to have stabilized slightly.


Aww, you remembered.

You were right about < 20k too, and I was wrong.  Enjoy your victory... for now.

Hey, I do try my best. I'm just glad you noticed! 

It's not really a "victory", though, because the system deserves to be doing better (particularly in Japan, where it's games lineup is far superior to that which we get), so it's a little...hollow really :/



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

sidmeiernintifan on 12 February 2014

I think it has reached peak in Japan, it is rather close to GBA numbers in Japan, but I am not sure about it having peaked in Europe or the USA.



Moren on 12 February 2014
Train wreck said:

*mumbles under breath* haha what 3DS peak year?! (-80k from last year with a new game)...recent trend continues of new 3ds games with high opening weeks doing nothing for the 3DS.

Anywho, Famitsu also came out with their majority PS4 reviews...even Knack got at 70%, Yakuza at 39/40...look for the PS4 to do wonders in Japan. Hopefully Yakuza sales will propel 3rd parties in japan to finally get off the snide and start producing for the system.

Perhaps you need therapy. Is it really healthy for a human being to be so obsessed with the failures of a company? Do you not have any other sources of joy?

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Pavolink on 12 February 2014

3DS sales are bad. The rest, beyond worse.



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