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d21lewis on 12 April 2014
Mr Puggsly said:
d21lewis said:
I'd be happy if the Xbox One NEVER passes the Wii U!! It's so close that it could go either way, though. Just hoping that the U becomes a successful enough to garner third party support again. Xbox One is gonna have it regardless of how it performs.

Even if the Wii U managed to maintain a larger userbase, its not gonna have great 3rd party support.

Look at the original Wii, massive userbase and 3rd party support was... meh. A few gems but not a lot to get excited about.


Exactly.  Everything's gonna be fine after Mario Kart!



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Rustuv on 12 April 2014
Seece said:
radishhead said:
I feel like people are generally underestimating the Nintendo Christmas Effect as seems to happen every year - even the dead-Wii managed to pull off respectable sales during that period; the WiiU will do very well since it will also have games to sell itself.

Where was this last year???

It's a myth, it didn't happen before Wii and it hasn't happened after. It was just the Wii and DS selling well.

Heck even 3DS doesn't have the 'holiday effect' (it's novembers in the US are always weak) it just has the benefit of selling equally well in all three big regions.


Have you looked at their holiday numbers? Sure they weren't mind blowing, but they sold about 4-5 times as many WiiUs as they were selling before the holidays and also about 4-5 times as many as they are selling now. sounds like a Holiday effect to me.



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Rustuv on 12 April 2014

To be completely honest I expected it to pass it a while ago. But it looks like they've got an actual fight on their hands. Will it last the whole year? beats me.



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archbrix on 12 April 2014

Worldwide? No, I wouldn't be shocked.



Arius Dion on 12 April 2014

Seems the one isn't really lighting the charts on fire. I mean the U s a flop and this question alone shows the one isn't that far off from flop hood either.



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fps_d0minat0r on 12 April 2014
NintendoPie said:
fps_d0minat0r said:
Are people joking or trolling?
... I can see X1 easily selling twice as much as wii U by the end of the year.

You shouldn't ask people that and then follow it up with a troll post of your own.


Why? Whats wii U gonna do this year which it hasnt already had a ton of chances at already?

Despite all its flaws, the x1 is still in much better shape than the wii U is.

This week wii U sold 33k, XB1 did 85k. If it carries on at the same ratio, XB1 will have sold twice as much as the wii U by the end of the year. and its possible that ratio will actually increase if the price drops in the UK get given to other countries in EU and the countries where its yet to be launched.



JoeTheBro on 12 April 2014

XBONE is pretty easy to predict, but Wii U has two huge games coming that could potentially "save" it. If the games don't push systems, then the XBONE passes it. If the games do push systems, then the XBONE probably doesn't pass it.

I'd be really happy if the wii u turned things around, and slightly shocked I guess.



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bananaking21 on 12 April 2014
Zero999 said:

No, the gap will be a lot bigger by the year end.


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Zero999 on 12 April 2014
se7en7thre3 said:
No, not if people keep choosing PS4 over XB1. And honestly, I feel its better for the VG industry to have *PS curb stomp MS this gen, and have them exit the home console market*. Why? Because then it forces Nintendo to pay attention/wake up and go after THAT market once again. And unlike the mid 90s, Nintendo & Sony are neck and neck in terms of $$$, Sony is no longer the super brand it once was ( would be much better competition this time around).





*or even Nintendo to exit and become a 3rd party dev, if necessary. I simply am not in favor of a 3 console market, I prefer 2)

bold: how can a company focus on a market "again" when it always focused on it?



Chris Hu on 12 April 2014
fps_d0minat0r said:
Are people joking or trolling?
... I can see X1 easily selling twice as much as wii U by the end of the year.


I don't see the X1 doing that good but with what they announce at E3 and the high likelyhood of a holiday bundle the X1 should have no problem passing the Wii U by the end of the year.  But I only think that way because I don't think Mario Kart 8 and Smash Brothers will give the Wii U a major boost but those two games could proof me wrong.