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Will Wii U rise like a Phoenix?

Hell Yes!! 172 29.20%
 
Maybe. 161 27.33%
 
Not likely. 105 17.83%
 
No you fool! It's GameCube 2.0 43 7.30%
 
It's worse than Gamecube. 84 14.26%
 
I love Playstation, and I... 23 3.90%
 
Total:588
ICStats on 23 May 2014
PigPen said:
oniyide said:
Wii U has competiton, 3ds not so much. Wii U has already been past DESPITE the year head start and xone nipping at its heels


And is currently sitting in second with the first just a mill & half more in sales.

2nd in lifetime sales, but 3rd in current sales.

To attract 3rd parties I think Wii U would need to start selling (and sustaining) 2 to 3 times current sales.



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ICStats on 23 May 2014
Ninricken said:
That's the cool thing about it: We don't know. We can guess and in the end we can say: "I knew it" but this isn't true: we only guessed it and so everything is possible.

We can always end up right or wrong, but logic and sense > guessing and wishing.



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PigPen on 23 May 2014
ICStats said:
PigPen said:
oniyide said:
Wii U has competiton, 3ds not so much. Wii U has already been past DESPITE the year head start and xone nipping at its heels


And is currently sitting in second with the first just a mill & half more in sales.

2nd in lifetime sales, but 3rd in current sales.

To attract 3rd parties I think Wii U would need to start selling (and sustaining) 2 to 3 times current sales.

Of course your going to get that rush from newer hardware, but it's dropping. Look at PS4 in Japan or XOne in Europe.



Cobretti2 on 23 May 2014

nooooooooo and even if it it, it be short lived. Look at 3DS its slowing too.



 

 

ICStats on 23 May 2014
PigPen said:
ICStats said:
PigPen said:
oniyide said:
Wii U has competiton, 3ds not so much. Wii U has already been past DESPITE the year head start and xone nipping at its heels


And is currently sitting in second with the first just a mill & half more in sales.

2nd in lifetime sales, but 3rd in current sales.

To attract 3rd parties I think Wii U would need to start selling (and sustaining) 2 to 3 times current sales.

Of course your going to get that rush from newer hardware, but it dropping. Look at PS4 in Japan or XOne in Europe.

XB1 sales are artificially down due to pricing f'ups, which should clear up next month.  Still XB1 is not even close as bad situation as Wii U because it still maintains all developer's support.



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think-man on 23 May 2014

The WiiU is already past pulling a 3DS. It'll still get great games which is all that matters.



 

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PigPen on 23 May 2014
ICStats said:
PigPen said:
ICStats said:
PigPen said:
oniyide said:
Wii U has competiton, 3ds not so much. Wii U has already been past DESPITE the year head start and xone nipping at its heels


And is currently sitting in second with the first just a mill & half more in sales.

2nd in lifetime sales, but 3rd in current sales.

To attract 3rd parties I think Wii U would need to start selling (and sustaining) 2 to 3 times current sales.

Of course your going to get that rush from newer hardware, but it's dropping. Look at PS4 in Japan or XOne in Europe.

XB1 sales are artificially down due to pricing f'ups, which should clear up next month.  Still XB1 is not even close as bad situation as Wii U because it still maintains all developer's support.


And Nintendo has money and no longer selling hardware at a lost.



Pavolink on 23 May 2014

Its fate has been sealed and Nintendo seems to be happy with that.



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archbrix on 23 May 2014
chapset said:
fleischr said:
chapset said:
Wow so with one year more on the market the wii U achieve to be only 1.5mill behind the Ps4, amazing


The Sega Dreamcast also had a record-breaking launch

So did the wii U

No, it didn't.

OT:  Unfortunately, it's not an apples to apples comparison with the 3DS situation, which had some breathing room for a drastic price drop and little threat from direct competition.  WiiU doesn't have those luxuries.

It's safe to assume that WiiU will do much better going forward after Mario Kart and more games hit, and I have little doubt that it will maintain its lead in Japan for quite a while, but it's almost certainly going to take the game-changing software you mentioned - something new and different like Wii Sports and Brain Age were upon their release (and, preferrably, something Gamepad-centric) - to allow for a full-blown turnaround.



ICStats on 24 May 2014
PigPen said:

And Nintendo has money and no longer selling hardware at a lost.

And what's the significance of that with respect to improving sales?



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