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fedfed on 30 November 2015

little but still - good news!



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Justagamer on 30 November 2015
noname2200 said:
ZhugeEX said:
This doesn't mean anything when:

1. The main PS4 & XB1 bundles had limited stock online @ Target.com and therefore were sold out early whilst Wii U was allocated higher stock level
2. Target accounts for less than 15% of the total market for Video Game sales in the U.S.
3. Target.com accounts for less than 5% of all sales from Target.com and Target Retail.

Shhhh, shhh, it's okay, it's okay, your console is still winning, shhh.....

Haha, that literally had me laughing. Too funny.



Jranation on 30 November 2015

Even though its small........

This is BIG FOR NINTENDO AND WII U. All the Wii U needs right now is good news. From small as sales being increased by 1% to as big as Selling 1 Million hardware in 1 month.



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Normchacho on 30 November 2015
Xxain said:
Normchacho said:
There is one very big factor missing from this information.

Pick up in store was cancelled for the PS4 and Xbox One for black Friday, but not the Wii U.

This is important because it means that someone could go online and buy a Wii U out of the stock from there local Target and then pick it up later. Using my store as an example, we had about 50 Wii U bundles, and 35 of them went to people who bought them online. That means tha just from my store, there were 35 Wii U sales that were counted as Target.com sales. Compare that to the 75 Xbox Ones, and 120 PS4s we sold, none of which counted towards Target.com.


Bingo. Exactly the case. The reason why has a big online section is because it has vey little in store space as opposed to the other 2. 

Is that your exact numbers for PS4 and X1? Haven't seen my mine, but it felt like they were selling at a similar pace 


It was actually closer to like 82 and 125. They were selling at a pretty similar pace for us aswell, but we only had like 90 Xbox Ones, compared to like 160 PS4 (all SKUs). We didn't totally sell out of Xbox Ones because we have a few special edition Halo bundles that nobody wants.



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AZWification on 30 November 2015

I really want some damn numbers.. I must have them! >_<



                
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Cream147 on 30 November 2015

I mean it's genuinely amazing that Wii U's are selling at all given the terrible holiday lineup. But then the Smash/Splatoon bundle was a smart move by Nintendo. In Europe they have the similar MK8/Splatoon bundle (Mario Kart is much more popular than Smash here in Europe) that I should imagine has also made some waves.



Ultrashroomz on 30 November 2015

Good news for Nintendo.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."