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Forums - Gaming - Prediction: Wii U will outperform the 3ds for the second half of 2014

 

Am I crazy?

Yup 35 37.63%
 
Nope 19 20.43%
 
It's possible 39 41.94%
 
Total:93

That's impossible, the 3DS should remain at least in the 70's or upper 60's through summer and will accelerate in the fall and winter, it sold about 13 million last year and is set to sell at least 10 million or so this year. The Wii U is likely looking at less than half that for the CY.
This has happened before; a large hardware boost does not equal future greatness, we saw what happened after the holidays, especially in Japan.

I'm going to have to greatly disagree with this prediction and the Wii U will very likely be back under the 3DS in weekly numbers within 2-3 weeks.



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Nintentacle said:
Wow, I never expected this to be a possibility... Last week people would have called you insane!


last week next week never existed *_*



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AnthonyW86 said:
MK8 did really well but we don't know if it really boosted Wii-U hardware. Wii-U only went up from 8k to 15k in Japan and that's with over 300k MK8.

There is a real possibility that most people interested in MK8 already own a Wii-U.

Uhm... what?

Wii U sales boosted 550% (187k) after Mario Kart was out for 3 days...



Nintentacle said:
AnthonyW86 said:
MK8 did really well but we don't know if it really boosted Wii-U hardware. Wii-U only went up from 8k to 15k in Japan and that's with over 300k MK8.

There is a real possibility that most people interested in MK8 already own a Wii-U.

Uhm... what?

Wii U sales boosted 550% (187k) after Mario Kart was out for 3 days...

I only knew the Japanese numbers when i posted, but other regions are indeed a lot better. These are estimates however and VGChartz has been off a lot lately, though 187k is not unreasonably high.



Unless the 3ds took a crazy nose dive in sales, I don't think it will happen.



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With Smash Bros, Monster Hunter, and Pokemon on the way, I'd be surprised. I don't think Bayonetta and Hyrule Warriors are quite on the same level as those... And let's not forget the difference in hardware price.



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On the one hand, it'd be nice if you were correct, because Wii U really needs a resurgence. It had an honestly pretty solid launch, and then it fell off a cliff because of hardly any games for most of 2013. It had a brief (but positive) blip in late 2013, and then it was back to Deadsville. So it could really use a sustained boost.

But on the OTHER hand, if it did outsell 3DS, people would just use that as fuel to say "See now the 3DS is failing, Nintendo is DOOMED". So.........*shrugs*



the_dengle said:
With Smash Bros, Monster Hunter, and Pokemon on the way, I'd be surprised. I don't think Bayonetta and Hyrule Warriors are quite on the same level as those... And let's not forget the difference in hardware price.


True. But then there's X, Sonic Boom, Yarn Yoshi, Smash Bros. Wii U (aka the real version of the game), and whatever surprise 2014 titles Nintendo no doubt has in store for us. I still don't think it WILL outsell 3DS. But it'd be kinda cool if it did, even if just for a few months.