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Forums - Nintendo - The Wii U more than doubled last Weeks sales with the Debut of Mario Kart 8 in Japan- Can we still hope for a 100,000 week total?

Soundwave on 04 June 2014

No offense but VGChartz almost always overtracks the Wii U hardware by at least 20-25% any time there is a big software release, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case here. 

I thought it was pretty curious that Nintendo released PR touting 1.2+ million Mario Kart 8 software sales but didn't utter a peep about the hardware bundle sales for North America or Europe. If they can track MK8 sales like that they should also have the hardware number to go with it so they chose not to talk about the hardware bundle which perhaps says something. 

Purely anecdotal but the big Best Buy in my area hasn't sold even one of the MK8 hardware bundles yet.



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Mummelmann on 04 June 2014
fleischr said:
Mummelmann said:


There is also the fact that the Wii U was pulling abysmal numbers in the UK before the release, we see with last weeks numbers that Japan, NA and Europe make up about 31.700 of the 34.600 global total, so even if NA and Europe had a UK boost; that yields about 150k for those regions, with Japan and UK making up about 30k, that leaves the rest of the world with a required 1000% boost to reach 200k, or the other regions having a boost in the area of 700%, especially if ioi's "over 200k" is to be possible.

From where I'm sitting; this just doesn't seem remotely possible, promotions and bundles be damned. I know there is room for amazing percentage-wise boosts when the baseline is very low but over 200k seems highly unrealistic in my opinion.


If there ever was a place where MK8 had a steep climb to have any meaningful bump, it would be the UK. That said, it's not unreasonable to figure WiiU to have an even bigger bump in other regions where the WiiU has had better goodwill than in the UK and a bundle is offered. I just don't see UK being a standalone turnaround region, especially given the confirmation we've had from Nintendo that 1.2 million units of the game were sold. Though I don't think it's over 200k, I figure it to be safe to assume a range between 110-200k.


110-200k is a very wide range though, I'm still leaning towards the 110k mark, which was my initial belief. Then again; the software has vastly outperformed my prediction of 550k so my guess doesn't really hold more merit than yours until we know anything more definite.