I was wrong: Wii U will sell

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binary solo on 30 June 2014

spurgeonryan said:
Didn't the GC have a short life cycle though?

Wii U is still full price more or less. What happens as the price slowly goes down over the years? Like this Christmas.

Don't you mean Wii U had a 15% price cut less than a year after launch?

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SubiyaCryolite on 30 June 2014

Prediction in sig

I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime.

The NX will be a 900p machine

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AshKetchum1992 on 30 June 2014

I think the Wii U will outsell the GC by 5k :P

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biglittlesps on 30 June 2014

finalrpgfantasy said:
I doubt that the Wii U will sell below the GC. Its still have the potential to sell at least 40 to 50 million units.

Ok, how many years Wii U will be supported and how much will it sell each year to get 40-50 million according to you?

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its a Feeling/Experience about a VIRTUAL WORLD we can never be in real, and realizing some of our dreams (also creating new ones).

So, Feel Emotions, Experience Adventure/Action, Challenge Game, Solve puzzles and Have fun.

PlayStation is about all-round "New experiences" using new IP's to provide great diversity for everyone.

Xbox is always about Online and Shooting.

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Numberfox on 30 June 2014

I can understand apologizing for your overly pro-Nintendo attitude in the past, but your title seemed to speak as if it's more than just your opinion and actual fact based on an article or something, which caught me a bit off guard.

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Raze on 30 June 2014

spurgeonryan said:

Raze said:

LTD the Wii U will sell around 75 Mil units.

you really think so? I hope this is true.

Yup, the 1st party titles will always jab non-owners in the rib cage. Granted, I AM talking LTD here, so when the price drops into a range that people are comfortable with spending in order to play those first party games. Nintendo will still take a loss on the system due to those price drops, when people finally buy one.

I don't see this any different than the slow 3DS start, or the slow PS3 start. Took them a while to get momentum. PS4 did everything right this gen, the Wii U had a very soft first 2 years, software wise. Due to that, it got lots of bad press, so it's going to take a while for the general public to shed that impression. If Smash Bros and Zelda are as good as advertised, it'll get the pace moving. With talk of a Star Fox game, and possibly a Metroid game, that should be enough to whet the appetitite of even ex-Nintendo fans, once the price drops into a reasonable range of course.

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The WiiU will fail to outsell the GC..............by 1 unit!

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Puppyroach on 30 June 2014

You shouldn't feel bad about those predictions, we all want "our" console to do best :). The WiiU will most likelymiss the GC milestone by some margin, thanks in large to the state of the industry right now, but the most important thing is how good the games are. Trust me, I used to only buy Sega consoles :P.

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spurgeonryan said:
Didn't the GC have a short life cycle though?

Wii U is still full price more or less. What happens as the price slowly goes down over the years? Like this Christmas.

The Wii came out 5 years after the GC's launch, but the only major GC game that came out that year was Twilight Princess!