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Forums - Sales Discussion - OK, I faced it: WiiU can't sell over 15M

 

15M, too low or just ok?

With my heartbroken, I agree. 291 32.96%
 
A pricecut can still push it to 20M-25M. 426 48.24%
 
Nonsense. WiiU is an assu... 165 18.69%
 
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teigaga on 27 December 2014

It can pass 15m but it won't pass 20m.

I think a price cut at the right time will do wonders. This is coming from a massive fan of Mario Kart, Smash Bros and Zelda who hasn't picked up a system yet . Its simply too expensive to benefit from that casual secondary console purchase atm.

The system will peak next year, I'm now certain of it. Smash and Mario will keep it selling ok (30-50k) in Q1/Q2.Then I believe we'll get a price cut in the summer followed by these releases:

Mario Part 10 (April-august)
Splatoon- (June-August)
X-(june-oct)
Yoshi- (june-oct)
Star Fox (sept-Nov)
Pokken (sept-Dec)
Zelda (october-Dec)
TBA: (at least one or 2 unannouced holiday titles)



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vivster on 27 December 2014
archer9234 said:

I still say 20 million will be the lifetime. Nintendo will keep it going after the next one comes out. But Wii U is basically Windows Vista and 8. Once you got that bad rep, people didn't bother with them. No matter if issues where fixed.

Phil says that's bollocks and that you should believe in your product. Turnarounds are possible.



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daredevil.shark on 27 December 2014

My sig will come true. I will win the bet. Good.



AZWification on 27 December 2014

I would be happy with just 18 million at this point! :/



                
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ICStats on 27 December 2014
vivster said:
archer9234 said:

I still say 20 million will be the lifetime. Nintendo will keep it going after the next one comes out. But Wii U is basically Windows Vista and 8. Once you got that bad rep, people didn't bother with them. No matter if issues where fixed.

Phil says that's bollocks and that you should believe in your product. Turnarounds are possible.

Believe in your product, and in your parent company's bottomless moneybags.



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vivster on 27 December 2014
ICStats said:
vivster said:
archer9234 said:

I still say 20 million will be the lifetime. Nintendo will keep it going after the next one comes out. But Wii U is basically Windows Vista and 8. Once you got that bad rep, people didn't bother with them. No matter if issues where fixed.

Phil says that's bollocks and that you should believe in your product. Turnarounds are possible.

Believe in your product, and in your parent company's bottomless moneybags.

That too. Also believe in your competent executives.



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ohmylanta1003 on 27 December 2014
daredevil.shark said:
My sig will come true. I will win the bet. Good.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I still believe!



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.

daredevil.shark on 27 December 2014
ohmylanta1003 said:
daredevil.shark said:
My sig will come true. I will win the bet. Good.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I still believe!




TiagoCosta on 27 December 2014

15 is achievable, I can't see it reaching +18M tho

Some months ago I was thinking 18M so yeah... who knows.



magoghm on 27 December 2014

In two years with bad sales it has already sold 8.2million. In two more years with similar sales it should be over 16 million. So it will probably sell over 15 million.