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So, what did you expect for the Wii U?

Success 18 10.47%
 
Moderate Success 71 41.28%
 
Proud Third Place 45 26.16%
 
Complete Failure 38 22.09%
 
Total:172
Normchacho on 14 September 2015

I expected it to do better than it has, but I still expected it to be a failure.



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Platina on 14 September 2015

Never really followed sales until late 2014, so I had low expectations already :p



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Azhraell on 14 September 2015

I used to lurk vgc for many years and I remember joining this site pretty much because the Wii u released. Since the reveal I felt the thing wouldn't sell Wii level, beating the N64 seemed like a safe bet but we can see how wrong I and most people was



Angelv577 on 14 September 2015

I did expected at least 30m but knew it wouldnt win this gen. That said, I doubt anyone could have predicted the wii u current numbers



Angelv577 on 14 September 2015
Illusion said:
After the runaway success of the Wii and DS it's hard to imagine many people predicting back in 2012 that the Wii U would sell less than 50 million. If I had made a prediction back then I definitely would have pinned the Wii U closer to the Wii than to the Gamecube and I would have been dead-wrong.

There was a thread back then when one guy predicted 40m and most nintendo fans jumped at him like if he was a crazy person.  It turns out, he was right.



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illdill1987 on 14 September 2015

I expected Gamecube I am surprised it's doing worse than that. But its not over yet still making good games and its still selling so who knows. But with the name and the weak specs I totally expected it to do way worse than the competition. Honestly my biggest surprise this generation is how bad xbox one is doing.



thatguymarco on 15 September 2015

Funny thing is, at the time the Wii U was revealed, I wasn't so fluent with english and didn't notice it had released until 2013, yeah, I think that's bad considering that every single console I'd ever owned at the time were Ninty's, with the exception of the 360 which I bought back in 2011, regardless, when I first saw the thing I thought that it was fucking stupid and predicted that people wouldn't give a shit about it the same way people stopped KNOWING that the Wii had EXISTED past 2009. Seems that my gut was right.



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Dusk on 15 September 2015

Makes no difference what my expectations where for the system. What matters is what Nintendo expected of the system. Unfortunately they didn't reach those goals, as surmised by their projections, they were way off and well below.
Great system, performed well below expectations. =failure (unfortunately)



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Frogger on 15 September 2015

I thought it would sell well.

I also didn't know anything about anything regarding video games at the time. Some of my posts were embarrassing. I even frequented player essence and Wii U Daily. I was a mess. I have grown.



HandofPrometheus on 15 September 2015

All I knew was that it wasn't going to beat the Wii.