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Captain Smoker · 12:55 PM

Philippe Lavoué (Deputy General Manager of Nintendo France) revealed some sales data for the Wii U and 3DS in an interview yesterday.

Source: http://www.jdli.com/super-mario-3d-w...art-508-1.html

Google Translate Source: http://translate.google.de/translate...art-508-1.html

Wii U LTD is now at 175.000 units as of the middle of November.

Here's the current, known hardware breakdown:

Code:

Month	    Wii U

Nov 12		+
Dec 12	  110.507

Jan 13		+
Feb 13		+
Mar 13		+
Apr 13		+
May 13	   36.685
Jun 13	    3.242
Jul 13		+
Aug 13		+
Sep 13	  	+
Oct 13		+
Nov 13	   25.566	*mid of November
Dec 13


Total	  175.000

The 3DS Hardware LTD is now at 2.150.000 units.

2DS represents 30% of the current 3DS sales.

Overall, the 3DS has a market share of 50% across all systems currently.

3DS Software Sales incraesed from 850.000 (last year) to 1.700.000 (this year), if you compare the same timeframe.

Pokemon X / Y sold 220.000 units in the first 3 weeks.

The LTD of the Original Wii is now at 6.000.000 units.

Other tidbits (Google Translate gibberish):

"Philippe Lavoué 175 000 copies of the console were sold in France at this stage and we are seeing a positive trend in sales since the
launch of Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker, which, like Ocarina of Time 3DS in its time, had favored Sales of consoles."

"Moreover, levels of booking games Professeurr Layton and the Legacy Aslantes or Legend of Zelda: A Link Between the Past
comes out on November 22 clearly indicate that the dynamics will continue this season. We expect the 3DS family to a record high this
year-end, it should establish itself as the number one console on the market."

"The situation on Wii U began to change this summer with the outputs of games like Pikmin 3, Legend of Zelda Wind Waker and the
trend will continue with Wii Party U, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, Super Mario 3D World November 29 and
next year via Mario Kart 8, Donkey Kong Country, Bayonetta 2 ... Third-party publishers are also there with Just Dance 2014,
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag and Call of Duty Ghosts at the end of the year."

AdventureRacing · (11-30-2013, 12:48 PM)

3DS numbers seem ok but the wii U ones are terrible, especially when you consider it's launch numbers.

DrWong · (11-30-2013, 12:49 PM)

Your google translation is ok OP.

Mpl90 · (11-30-2013, 12:50 PM)

Originally Posted by AdventureRacing

3DS numbers seem ok but the wii U ones are terrible, especially when you consider it's launch numbers.

3DS numbers in France should be pretty big, from what I remember. Yeah, those Wii U numbers are awful, though.

Kenka · (11-30-2013, 12:50 PM)

WiiU sold 65k in 11 months.

That's 1k a week give or take.

Atreides · (11-30-2013, 12:52 PM)

Never mind, I missread.

Pyscho_Mantis · (11-30-2013, 12:54 PM)

Originally Posted by Atreides

Never mind, I missread.

your confusing software with hardware.

Asd202 · (11-30-2013, 12:54 PM)

Originally Posted by Mpl90

3DS numbers in France should be pretty big, from what I remember. Yeah, those Wii U numbers are awful, though.

I don't think there's a place where Wii U numbers are good :P.

Captain Smoker · (11-30-2013, 12:54 PM)

Originally Posted by Atreides

Never mind, I missread.

/Edit ;)

liger05 · (11-30-2013, 12:59 PM)

Wii U eveywhere is nothing but a commercial failure.

Captain Smoker · (11-30-2013, 01:04 PM)

Originally Posted by liger05

Wii U eveywhere is nothing but a commercial failure.

At least, we should see a higher demand for the system in the next time.

Google Trends Analysis for the Wii U in France (quoted for size):

Interest in the console increased a lot in November.

And France is Europes Japan:
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/bestsellers/...=pd_dp_ts_vg_1

3DS dominates this charts like no other system lol.

*Note that these aren't the most representative tools.

Jubern · (11-30-2013, 01:06 PM)

We had a big debate with my girlfriend as to whether or not the 2DS would succeed in France, I guess I win ahahah.

The numbers for Wii U are... wow.

SporeCrawler · (11-30-2013, 01:08 PM)

Awful but not surprising. They had a big hole n their release schedule and now its hard to get momentum again. Its the same in all territories. Nintendo needs to push wiiu this christmas Since now they have the games. Mario should be a great champion of sales

wrowa · (11-30-2013, 01:13 PM)

Originally Posted by SporeCrawler

Awful but not surprising. They had a big hole n their release schedule and now its hard to get momentum again. Its the same in all territories. Nintendo needs to push wiiu this christmas Since now they have the games. Mario should be a great champion of sales

They've got 3D World and nothing else of importance. That's still not enough to get the ship sailing again -- but at least we can expect sales to pick up somewhat...

It's still a mystery to me that Nintendo didn't see it coming. Or they did, who knows. Having such a bad line up is not excusable for a company with as much experience as Nintendo, however.

Muchi Muchi Pink · (11-30-2013, 01:20 PM)

I knew the 2ds would sell like sliced bread with Pokémon as a backup. Too bad for Wii U as 3d world is great.

Magicpaint · (11-30-2013, 01:27 PM)

3DS is doing relatively poorly in UK but that doesn't seem to be the case in France.

WiiU doesn't even surprise me.

Bruno MB · (11-30-2013, 02:36 PM)

We have the following Wii U hardware sales data for the 3 largest European Markets:

France - 175.000 as of November, 2013.
Germany - 160.000 as of September 30, 2013.
UK - Slightly over 150.000 units as of November, 2013.

Mpl90 · (11-30-2013, 02:38 PM)

Originally Posted by Bruno MB

We have the following Wii U hardware sales data for the 3 largest European Markets:

France - 175.000 as of November, 2013.
Germany - 160.000 as of September 30, 2013.
UK - Slightly over 150.000 units as of November, 2013

So, 480,000 units* in three of the biggest European markets since launch. That's...urgh. URGH

*Germany is up to end of September, not November. Still, URGH

shinra-bansho · (11-30-2013, 02:45 PM)

Originally Posted by Mpl90

So, 480,000 units* in three of the biggest European markets since launch. That's...urgh. URGH

*Germany is up to end of September, not November. Still, URGH

Fits reasonably well with an extrapolation I did from Nintendo's IR briefing charts which put the system at ~700K across UK, FR, GE, SP, IT, NE, BE. 450K for those three major territories and then something like 250K for those other 4 territories combined?

(Off-topic but for some perspective the PS4 in all likelihood has already overtaken it in just a day.)

Captain Smoker · (11-30-2013, 02:52 PM)

Originally Posted by Bruno MB

We have the following Wii U hardware sales data for the 3 largest European Markets:

France - 175.000 as of November, 2013.
Germany - 160.000 as of September 30, 2013.
UK - Slightly over 150.000 units as of November, 2013.

*UK & FR as of mid of November 2013

Hcoregamer00 · (11-30-2013, 03:14 PM)

Kinda surprised PokeFrance didn't sell better than it did in France.

Come on, your country is the inspiration for a really awesome Pokemon.

liger05 · (11-30-2013, 08:10 PM)

Originally Posted by Mpl90

So, 480,000 units* in three of the biggest European markets since launch. That's...urgh. URGH

*Germany is up to end of September, not November. Still, URGH

That is crazy. Unbelievably low!!!