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Forums - Sales Discussion - Weekly HW & SW 14th of feb. 3DS 423k. Zelda 860K, Evolve 600K. MH4U 300K

uran10 on 01 March 2015
Skeeuk said:

why would anyone buy YET another 3ds?


Some of us haven't bought it yet, some of us want better 3d, some of us want the extra power and extra speed. There are a lot of reasons to buy it Just because you aren't interested in one doesn't mean others aren't.



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Yakuzaice on 02 March 2015
Ryng_Tolu said:
OfficerRaichu15 said:

the ratio is lower than usual

probably means wii u is overtracked in NA and undertracked in EU :P

This.

Wii U usually in Europe sell 80 or 85% of USA sales.

We have 63,000 in USA for the month of January, that is neary 16,000 at week.

So, Wii U is at nearly 13,000 in EU for the month of January. VGChartz said:

10 Jan: 13,296 (Ok)

17 Jan: 10,987

24 Jan: 9,248

31 Jan: 8,690

This number are very low when we know tha USA sales imo.

Yeah, probabily that now Wii U is overtracked in the US, but even undertracked in EU, so, the WW number are close.

 

Let's say that Wii U will sell  84,000 this NPD (21,000 at week); and 64,000 in Europe (16,000 at week).

Where are you getting this idea that Europe is typically 80-85% of US sales?  VGC has lifetime sales in Europe at ~55% of sales in the US.  Wii U shipments are at nearly an identical ratio between The Americas and Other.  That isn't a perfect analog for US/EU, but the US and EU are by far the biggest markets in those territories.

The week ending February 15th last year had European sales at only 41.8% of US sales.  In 2013 the week ending February 16th it was at 49%. 

PAL software charts for the week also don't show any indications of a big Wii U increase like VGC shows in the US.  UK only has one title, MK8, which dropped from 34 to 40.  Germany had 4 titles in the top 50, 3 of them down from the previous week.  The only one up was from 51 to 45, likely a fairly small difference when you get down that low.  None of the other countries I see charts for had Wii U titles.  Sweden had one the previous week, but it fell off the top 20 for week 7.

Even if Europe was 85% of US sales, you have to see the problem of using only a VGC number as proof that another VGC number is wrong.