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Vena on 17 June 2014
Max King of the Wild said:
Vena said:
Max King of the Wild said:
2days is a week because in sales it's counting the 5 days prior to launch as well....

Week following != five days before its release + two days.


Yes it does. Like every fucking media sales. Think of movies. It's first week is usually only two days. Sales weeks end on sat. The week of 18-24 was 4 times less than 25-31. Just accept it


That's openning weekend, actually. There's actually a distinction.



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Max King of the Wild on 17 June 2014
Vena said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Vena said:
Max King of the Wild said:
2days is a week because in sales it's counting the 5 days prior to launch as well....

Week following != five days before its release + two days.


Yes it does. Like every fucking media sales. Think of movies. It's first week is usually only two days. Sales weeks end on sat. The week of 18-24 was 4 times less than 25-31. Just accept it


That's openning weekend, actually. There's actually a distinction.


Ohmy fucking god...and why, do you think, do they do it like that? 



Vena on 17 June 2014
Max King of the Wild said:
Vena said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Vena said:
Max King of the Wild said:
2days is a week because in sales it's counting the 5 days prior to launch as well....

Week following != five days before its release + two days.


Yes it does. Like every fucking media sales. Think of movies. It's first week is usually only two days. Sales weeks end on sat. The week of 18-24 was 4 times less than 25-31. Just accept it


That's openning weekend, actually. There's actually a distinction.


Ohmy fucking god...and why, do you think, do they do it like that? 


Just to piss you off? Perhaps to make a distinction between week of, openning weekend, and week after? You seem to be taking this awfully seriously.



Max King of the Wild on 17 June 2014


Just to piss you off? Perhaps to make a distinction between week of, openning weekend, and week after? You seem to be taking this awfully seriously.


You're the one arguing nonsense. Just accept wii u performed badly



Lawlight on 17 June 2014

Crazy that the 3DS was at 225k last May but now is less than 100k.



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Vena on 17 June 2014
Max King of the Wild said:


Just to piss you off? Perhaps to make a distinction between week of, openning weekend, and week after? You seem to be taking this awfully seriously.


You're the one arguing nonsense. Just accept wii u performed badly


??? You may want to scroll back a few pages and note that that was already accepted and even assumed. Try again?



Blood_Tears on 17 June 2014
ExplodingBlock said:
You know you console is dead when it gets outsold by the WII


Your confusing the Wii with Wii U. The Wii U outsold the Vita but the Wii was the lowest selling platform of them all. That's the dead console..



AshKetchum1992 on 17 June 2014
Welfare said:
LTD
DKC: Tropical Freeze [WiU] 258k
Lightening Returns FF [PS3] 135k [360] 71k
PVZ: Garden Warfare [XB1] 257k [360] 150k
FF10HD [PS3] 259k
South Park SoT [360] 279k [PS3] 228k
Titanfall [XB1] 969k [360] 559k
Dark Souls 2 [360] 212k [PS3] 209k
Infamous SS [PS4] 617k
MGSV: Ground Zeroes [Total] 357k [PS4] >179k

Lightning Flops XD



Max King of the Wild on 17 June 2014
Vena said:
Max King of the Wild said:


Just to piss you off? Perhaps to make a distinction between week of, openning weekend, and week after? You seem to be taking this awfully seriously.


You're the one arguing nonsense. Just accept wii u performed badly


??? You may want to scroll back a few pages and note that that was already accepted and even assumed. Try again?


Okay, then accept the week after Wii U sold a mere 40k on the back of its largest sw the Hw dropped again.



Yakuzaice on 17 June 2014
Vena said:

I doubt he'd be referring to the last two days as the "last week of May", the quote we're talking about was with regards to MK8 and the WiiU. Two days are not a week no matter how we spin it, and the whole discussion on this comes up well after the first week of June was already over (as it came from E3).

It doesn't flow logically to me. Two days is not a week, and the original quote and article on Polygon was about the week following its release... coming out on the second week of June. (Also I'm pretty sure we don't have actual numbers even from NPD, we have an estimate based on the 85% statement. All we know, seemingly concretely, is that the MK8 bundle sold 25k+ and sold out.)

I'm not saying he was referring to the last two days, I am saying he was referring to the last week of May.  Where you got only two days from my post I have no idea.

The original quote seems to be the one from David Gibson who was at the Analyst meeting.  He said

"#Nintendo said MK8 attach rate in US was 18% versus 7% for MK7. MK8 boosted WiiU sales 4.1x week over week v. MK7 2.4x "

Then Reggie said to Polygon, though Polygon didn't put that statement in quotations.

"Sales of the Wii U console quadrupled the week after the release of Mario Kart 8, compared to the week prior, Fils-Aime said."

Then he told VentureBeat

"we announced to the financial community here in the United States that Mario Kart 8 has increased the sell-through of the Wii U hardware business by a factor of four. In the two weeks prior to the launch, versus what we’ve seen now following the launch, we’re selling at a daily rate four times higher than where we were before."

All three of these quotes are potentially saying different things (especially the last one), but seem to be using the same set of data.

The 25k Mario Kart bundles came from Creamsugar over on neogaf.  He also gave us the Wii U hardware number.