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Congrats to Wii U

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I'll donate my Wii U to the museum 42 33.07%
 
Wii was better 27 21.26%
 
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jetforcejiminy on 03 December 2014
zorg1000 said:
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Create_sales_figures

According to this Gamecube was right around 3 million at the end of 2003 (it's second full year) while Wii U will likely be around 2.2-2.3 million by the end of this year.

One other thing to take note of is that GC launched in Sept while Wii U launched in Dec so GC has a couple extra months on it by the end of their 2nd full year.


but look at its third and fourth year. gamecube crashed. partly because after an initial onslaught of games (mario sunshine, wind waker, metroid prime, in addition to probably nintendo's biggest first party launch, with wave race, luigi's mansion etc. and melee within two weeks of launch) the games dried up. the situation has been the reverse for the wii u, and its 2015 looks a heck of a lot better than gamecube's 2004. (best part is when gamecube sold least was when it was cheapest--$99.99.)



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outlawauron on 03 December 2014
Welfare said:
Famitsu says different.

WIU | 13.533 | 8.506 | 27.325 | 462.930 | 562.000 | 1.981.357

Just means people can celebrate twice.



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zippy on 03 December 2014
jetforcejiminy said:
zorg1000 said:
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Create_sales_figures

According to this Gamecube was right around 3 million at the end of 2003 (it's second full year) while Wii U will likely be around 2.2-2.3 million by the end of this year.

One other thing to take note of is that GC launched in Sept while Wii U launched in Dec so GC has a couple extra months on it by the end of their 2nd full year.


but look at its third and fourth year. gamecube crashed. partly because after an initial onslaught of games (mario sunshine, wind waker, metroid prime, in addition to probably nintendo's biggest first party launch, with wave race, luigi's mansion etc. and melee within two weeks of launch) the games dried up. the situation has been the reverse for the wii u, and its 2015 looks a heck of a lot better than gamecube's 2004. (best part is when gamecube sold least was when it was cheapest--$99.99.)

Yep, the Gamecube flew out of the blocks, hence the reason its outperformed Wii U so far. I think Wii U will continue to be a steady seller, and its latter years will outpace those of the Gamecube. Its going to be tight to see which one will be the better seller.



zorg1000 on 03 December 2014
jetforcejiminy said:
zorg1000 said:
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Create_sales_figures

According to this Gamecube was right around 3 million at the end of 2003 (it's second full year) while Wii U will likely be around 2.2-2.3 million by the end of this year.

One other thing to take note of is that GC launched in Sept while Wii U launched in Dec so GC has a couple extra months on it by the end of their 2nd full year.


but look at its third and fourth year. gamecube crashed. partly because after an initial onslaught of games (mario sunshine, wind waker, metroid prime, in addition to probably nintendo's biggest first party launch, with wave race, luigi's mansion etc. and melee within two weeks of launch) the games dried up. the situation has been the reverse for the wii u, and its 2015 looks a heck of a lot better than gamecube's 2004. (best part is when gamecube sold least was when it was cheapest--$99.99.)

Well I'm not sure Wii U will sell better next year than GC did in 2004 for Japan. Last year Wii U sold about 900k in Japan and it's currently down YOY by about 100k so we can estimate year end sales to be about 750-800k, depending on the boost that Smash Bros can cause in the final 4 weeks. That would mean Wii U will be down YOY despite having big releases like Donkey Kong, Mario Kart & Smash Bros which are some of Nintendo's biggest hitters.

Next year's lineup does look good but in terms of games that can move alot of units, I'm not so sure. Games like Kirby & Yoshi are 2nd/3rd tier franchises and likely will sell to existing users, Mario Maker has potential but with NSMBU/Luigi U/3D World already out it seems like the Mario fanbase is already on Wii U, Splatoon is another game with potential but is an unproven new ip, Zelda hasn't been very big in Japan for quite some time now, Star Fox is a wildcard we don't know anything about it really so I'll hold judgement on that, I have a hard time seeing Devil's Third selling well. Pretty much the only game that seems like it could be a really big system seller is Xenoblade X.

So I kinda expect Wii U to be down YOY again in 2015. 900k in 2013, 750-800k in 2014, 600k in 2015. Perhaps in can match GC 2004 sales but I can't see it doing much more.

Edit: actually the GC lineup wasn't horrible in 2004.

March-Metal Gear Solid:The Twin Snakes

April-Pikmin 2

July-Paper Mario:The Thousand Year Door

October-Mario Power Tennis

November-Mario Party 6/Naruto:Clash of Ninja 3

December-Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

It's not bad and is comparable to the known titles for next year.



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JGarret on 03 December 2014
S.Peelman said:
NES: 19.4m
SNES: 17.2m
N64: 5.5m
GC: 4.0m
Wii: 12.8m

The race is on! Halfway there to beat GameCube numbers !


Man what a huge drop from the SNES to the N64, but since all the JRPGs had moved to the PS1 back then...not really surprising



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thelalaby on 03 December 2014

I expect Wii U to reach 3.5 million lifetime in Japan, which is totally acceptable.



zorg1000 on 03 December 2014
JGarret said:
S.Peelman said:
NES: 19.4m
SNES: 17.2m
N64: 5.5m
GC: 4.0m
Wii: 12.8m

The race is on! Halfway there to beat GameCube numbers !


Man what a huge drop from the SNES to the N64, but since all the JRPGs had moved to the PS1 back then...not really surprising


If u look at the best seller list for SNES in Japan, u will see that out of the top 30 games, 12 were RPGs by Square/Enix and 4 were fighters.

Playstation and to a lesser extent Sega Saturn pretty much completely stole fans of those genres from Nintendo. Square/Enix were not making Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest exclusively for Playstation and had a big fighting series in Tekken while Saturn had a bunch of smaller RPGs and had a big fighting game in Virtual Fighter.

N64 is when Nintendo consoles became devices pretty much for the sole purpose of 1st party titles.



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foxtail on 03 December 2014
JGarret said:
S.Peelman said:
NES: 19.4m
SNES: 17.2m
N64: 5.5m
GC: 4.0m
Wii: 12.8m

The race is on! Halfway there to beat GameCube numbers !


Man what a huge drop from the SNES to the N64, but since all the JRPGs had moved to the PS1 back then...not really surprising

Losing Street Fighter when it was still multi-platform was also a big disappointment and they should've pushed for ports on the N64.

Sales of SFII were huge back then and in Japan Street Fighter II: The World Warrior even outsold Final Fantasy VI on the SFC (SNES).

 

Street Fighter II: TWW SNES sales in Japan = 2.87 million

Final Fantasy VI SNES sales in Japan = 2.55 million

Though Enix's Dragon Quest VI outsold them both at 3.2M sold on the SNES in Japan.



Seece on 03 December 2014

Pretty amazing to look at how Japan contributes to each console maker

WiiU sales - 25%
PS4 sales - 5%
XB1 sales - 0%



 

Pavolink on 03 December 2014

Let's continue the celebration with playing our favorite games!



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