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UK: Wii U Premium bundle 60% of launch sales. Zombi U bundle 30%. Basic bundle 10%
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grimshawish
Banned
Expect more Basic Bundles soon if its only selling 10%.
Keyser Soze
Member
Reggie - We sold 60% of Premium. The Zombi U bundle sold 30%. The Basic bundle sold 10%. This means 100% of units were sold. Better on Wii U.
michaelius
Banned
That split is interesting - casuals would be buying lot more white bundles imho so that's probably mostly core Nintendo fans going to shops at the launch.
nhlducks35
Member
Why would you, when you get 4x the storage, NintendoLand, plus some accessories, for only $50 more?
Guerrillas in the Mist
Member
The fact that the black model looks a ton better than the white one probably doesn't help.
ibu
Member
$50... No £50 that's an even greater saving. When you currency convert ;-)
i'll pick one up when rayman and pikmin are out. i don't need the extra space, plastic, or frisbee.
donkey show
Member
With the amount of deals places like GAME were doing with Premium bundles, I'm not surprised.
i do understand it might have more appeal for some people, but if things won't change nintendo will really have to slow down the basic production... seems like that's the niche model, while the premium is the mainstream model
I'll take a basic bundle in due course.
Am I the only one who thinks white > black with Wii U?
Throwaway123456789
Member
Black one gives you 10% back on every online purchase, though!
Is that why NoA suck now? I mean since they don't have the head guy anyone?
That's expected, the basic pack is of no interest I'd gather and stocks limit the ZombiU bundle anyway
I don't think Nintendo ever really expected it to sell that well, I guess the main reason to have it is so they can say 'from £250!' in their advertising.
WonkyPanda
Member
black is a fingerprint magnet though 
SpoonyBard
Banned
White may look slightly better, yeah. And I hate how well fingerprints show on the black surface. But my Wii was white, so I wanted an another colour for a bit of variety...
grimshawish
Banned
If its counted up to yesterday its had:
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Within which we know there were at least 2 shipments to stores.
WeylandxYutani
Member
Nintendoland sold 26k first week, does this imply total console sales in the region of 37k if it was packed in every premium?
Oh God, bad UK debut indeed.
grimshawish
Banned
are the games bundled with the console counted or are those just the nintendoland copies sold separately?
Hmmm. I'm not sales-age enough to be sure but that doesn't seem terribly good.
Yeah each to their own - I'm glad Nintendo gave us the choice.
grimshawish
Banned
Not great. We'll see how it does across 7 days though I suppose.
SkullplateMurray
Member
Early adopters are likely to be the hardcore. More basics will likely be sold if/when Wii U becomes more mass market.
radioheadrule83
Banned
How many of you have been buying digitally?
I thought I was going to be put off digital purchases by the NNID linked to system & mii thing, but I've basically bought everything on the eShop (except for Nintendoland, which came as part of the system).... NSMBU, Puddle, Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing on day 1. I intend to buy ZombiU and Black Ops digitally this month too.
I thought I was going to be put off digital purchases by the NNID linked to system & mii thing, but I've basically bought everything on the eShop (except for Nintendoland, which came as part of the system).... NSMBU, Puddle, Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing on day 1. I intend to buy ZombiU and Black Ops digitally this month too.
what made you change your mind exactly?
bigtroyjon
Member
That's the max number, any individual NL copies sold would reduce the Wii U number sold.
metalslimer
Member
Where are you getting this number? And if its true it means at most the system did 37k because that assumes no one bought it outside of the bundle.
before making a fuss about this, are we sure that that number (wherever is coming from) is not just about single copies sold by retailers and not the bundled copies with the system?
Gianni Merryman
Member
At all events this sounds to me like an overwhelmingly good result for ZombiU; I think at Ubisoft they weren't expecting it to sell this good - I gather it's selling good if nothing else based on bundle's sales.
I always wonder about this with Vita games. It's going to be tricky keeping track of numbers going forward.
WeylandxYutani
Member
I'm looking at the GFK data. I'd always been lead to believe it included bundle copies as well as individual units and seeing as its the best selling Wii U game its a reasonable assumption.
EDIT: Yes my maths sucks
EDIT: Yes my maths sucks
26k seems like it would be about right.
We know AC3 did 53k total.
9 ASSASSIN'S CREED III XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT
11 NINTENDO LAND WII U NINTENDO NINTENDO
13 ASSASSIN'S CREED III PS3 UBISOFT UBISOFT
Also if it were just the non bundled copies, that would be mean the rest of WiiU software really tanked.
Nah I get what he did, thats the highest possible scenario. AC3 did 53,923. That was across Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U.
Nintendoland did less than the Xbox360 and more than the PS3 version, so 27k is its maximum. Probably a modest amount less.
Nintendoland was attached to at least 60% of Wii Us, so it did no more than 45k. Again, probably a modest amount less.
Worst launch in the UK for a long time.
bigtroyjon
Member
metalslimer
Member
Makes sense, but damn never in a million years did I expect less than Vita in the holiday season.
Canis lupus
Member
For the basic bundle?
i meant in general.