superhippy420 on 12 February 2014
| bonzobanana said: It was about 3.45 million in March 2013 so will have sold about 2.5 million extra approx by this March. That's despite Zelda windwaker, Mario 3D etc being launched. I think 3 million is likely this year without a price cut but I think a price cut is likely and a big mario kart bundle for Christmas. I personally think 4-6 million this year is possible under ideal conditions. However it is also possible the wii u will be removed from shop shelves due to lack of sales and with limited software releases I can see it still possible that wii u sells less than 3 million. We can all guess the figure but the reality is Nintendo's decisions will dictate the figure and we can't predict what they are going to do. They have made some truly atrocious decisions recently and its possible this will continue. Here in the UK the wii u has sold abysmally. The PS4 passed wii u lifetime sales in the UK in just days. Many retailers have already abandoned the wii u and its likely more will follow. In this scenerio its hard to see how the wii u can match 2013 sales figures. |
The retailers that dump it will jump right back on once Nintendo's big titles are released and they see other retailers raking in a boatload of cash. Wind Waker was never going to be a big seller. It didn't even do that great on the gamecube + it's a remake. Ocarina is considered to be one of the greatest games of all time and the remake on 3DS has sold 3.3 million and has been out for 2+ years now. SM3DW did help alot though. I know alot of people just write Decembers sales off as the holiday bump, but the Vita just proved that without some piece of compelling software that holiday bump is by no means guerenteed. Without SM3DW Holiday Wii U sales would have been a massive disaster.
