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COX on 16 August 2014
Aura_Warrior said:

"the 2015 sales will be higher than in 2014"

With which game ? The best system sellers of the WII U are Mario Kart and Smash and I don't see which other game can improve the sales in 2015.



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alexesquedabananas on 16 August 2014

lol



MonkeyDLuffy on 16 August 2014
Svengoolie said:

Toastboy is obviously trolling because nobody would actually believe this. Xbones are at 5 million now, if the charts are to be believed. So you think they're going to magically sell 7 million consoles in the next 4 months. There's no way you think that.

 

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TheWPCTraveler on 16 August 2014
eva01beserk said:
TheWPCTraveler said:
toastboy44562 said:

Xbox One should be at 12 million by the end of 2014

Wii U will be at 10 million by the end of 2014

 

Xbox One should be at 24 million by the end of 2015

Wii U will be around 13-14 million by the end of 2015

 

Xbox One will have a lead of ten million by the end of 2015!

That's one optimistic prediction you got there. Let me fix that with more conservative numbers.

XB1:

Let's take the 7 million you have and chop it down to 4 million. I expect that the XB1 is at 5.5 million now. So, 5.5 million with multiplats and some exclusives including Halo: MCC. Let me tell you why I think this is a conservative estimate: Halo MCC will dilute the impact of Halo 5 next year. That makes some 9.5 million XB1s. Quite a number we have there.

Now, let's cut down XB1 to just 8 million next year. Why, you ask? By what you're thinking, this seems like a conservative estimate. But, hear me out. The effect of Halo 5 will have been diluted by the success (or failure) Halo MCC will turn out to be.

So, as a compromise between our sales predictions (I expect 16 million for XB1 by end-2015, but I'm still working out the kinks in my prediction), let's say 18 million for XB1.

WiiU (NWU):

10 million is conservative for Wii U. You're underestimating the impact Japan has on the baseline. They'll add, like, 400k sales by year-end, but don't mind me :p

Considering the games coming out for Wii U (and Smash 3DS effects), I expect 4 million between now and year-end. I'm thinking of having 6.5 million Wii Us in households right now, so 10.5 million.

2015? I can draw up a prediction for you. It's called having a 60k/week minimum baseline all year round (overall average 90k/wk). That leads us to roughly 5 million Wii U units sold. So, uh, I think we'll see 4.5 million units. That leads us to 15 million.

I still hope the Wii U sells better than XB1, until Zelda U drops.

I think your numbers for next years wii u is still to little. They have hinted that they have a few other deals like devils third coming next year plus all the heavy hitter coming to the wii u like x, starfox, zelda and the big remake anouced. Next year I do think that we will see at least a 50% increase for the Wii U so like 6-7.5m in not out of the question.


Didn't I say I used conservative numbers? I actually expect 11 million (Japan will contribute 500k) by end-2014 for the Wii U. That says a lot

I'm going to hang onto my conservative esraimate for next year, though. 5-6 million Wii U sold through.



 
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TheWPCTraveler on 16 August 2014
MonkeyDLuffy said:
Svengoolie said:

Toastboy is obviously trolling because nobody would actually believe this. Xbones are at 5 million now, if the charts are to be believed. So you think they're going to magically sell 7 million consoles in the next 4 months. There's no way you think that.

 

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Aura_Warrior on 16 August 2014
COX said:
Aura_Warrior said:

"the 2015 sales will be higher than in 2014"

With which game ? The best system sellers of the WII U are Mario Kart and Smash and I don't see which other game can improve the sales in 2015.

Games, plural. how about? the nine exclusives already announced, wich include zelda? smash and mario kart have everlasting effect. people should stop ignoring that fact.



COX on 17 August 2014
Aura_Warrior said:
COX said:
Aura_Warrior said:

"the 2015 sales will be higher than in 2014"

With which game ? The best system sellers of the WII U are Mario Kart and Smash and I don't see which other game can improve the sales in 2015.

Games, plural. how about? the nine exclusives already announced, wich include zelda? smash and mario kart have everlasting effect. people should stop ignoring that fact.

 I hope you are right but I don't think that the effect of MK/Smash will be stronger in 2015 than 2014 and Zelda is a amazing franchise but it's not bigger than MK/Smash. 



Seece on 17 August 2014

Good luck toastboy!! WiiU is certainly going to have an interesting year with little to no system sellers we know about yet (Does Zelda U have a solid 2015 release date)??



 

niallyb on 17 August 2014

Splatoon, mario maker, Yoshi, project guard, project giant robot, smash bros (will have long legs through 2015), Zelda, kirby and the rainbow curse, captain toad, mario party 10, the rumored remaster (my guess is SMS or Majoras mask), DK racing (rumored)


Not all of the above need to be huge hits for Wii U to outsell 2014 numbers, especially with a price cut.

Speculating a little - if there is a hardware revision that improves the tablet wifi distance and battery life and adds more storage options - that would be really nice . I'm prolly just wishing here.

X1 has a VERY similar upcoming library to PS4 and that's not a good thing for it. So it will either need to beef up on mass market exclusives, do serious money hatting with 3rd parties or drop its price a lot. The European sales numbers are kind of shocking they are so bad. Halo is a little worn out and the shine is coming off the FPS genre in general - compare sales of the current iterations of the big FPS franchises Vs the prev iterations. Titanfall did not do the expected job in terms of pushing hardware over the long term.

Best guess

End of 2014 Wii u at 10.5-11 mil..... X1 at 9-9.5 mil
End of 2015 Wii u at 16-17 mil.........X1 at 15



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Namiirei on 17 August 2014

My prediction :

Your prediction will be wrong. 200% sure.

I would not even bet on the second place actually.