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Forums - Sales - WiiU forecast to sell (to consumer) under 10m LTD by the end of the year.

Skidonti on 08 May 2014
hunter_alien said:
Skidonti said:

Hey, I'm still betting 10.5 million sold end of fiscal year, putting them about a million shipped over their forecast.
IF they up production as demand ever so slowly ramps.

Honestly I mean if it doesn't really build interest from here I can't see it just chugging along at a slightly increased pace from last year. I feel like if it doesn't get boosts from the last half's software then it will just straight up tank the holidays and end up 9 million FY. So I see it either high or low. Probably wrong though.

Though I guess 2,000 people still buy a Vita every week in the US for some reason so I suppose there's a chance WiiU could simply remain steady in the face of failure and still have people buy it consistently.


Whas this really necesary? I mean at the end of the gen the Vita will probably beat the WiiU sales wise... and lets be honest, library wise it already ahead of the U.

Yes it was necessary. Vita WW is much lower than WIiU is projected by Nintendo to be for the same period since launch, but do we hear rumors of its imminent cancellation? Not yet, it has a (very very) slowly growing niche market in the West and only just picked up in Japan 6 months ago. Vita also launched over 11 months before WiiU to build up that decent library. WiiU will gain more titles in its library in the next 12 months as well.

It's hardware "no one wants", just like the WiiU, and it will never be in the lead or have games selling 10 million units, and it's doubtful it sales will take a significant turn for the better. People still buy it in full knowledge of that, and in knowledge that almost no one else is buying it, because they want it. I merely use it as an example to speculate that WiiU can do the same and indeed carry on for a couple years selling consistently to a small segment of the population for small profits.

Edit: By much lower I mean 1.6 million units behind. Which at these sales levels is like 20%.