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Wii U UK Sales Rose Almost 125% Last Week
- Thread starter majik13
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Hmm, the last trade prices I saw (Jan) had the premium ~£240 so even including Zombi U £100 is a bit of a stretch.
zomgbbqftw
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Trade prices don't include VAT.
doesnt look like the deals there yet, so Deloitte will still need to be making it an attractive profile, then half the stores closing as well is a fair bit of stock clearout. ive got no real idea on retail channel workings, or know anything about this stock borrowing, so cant comment on that.
http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/hilco-in-talks-to-save-hmv-in-50m-deal-report/053803
Baconsammy
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If the numbers are horrible to begin with, then yes 125 percent of bad is still bad.
frankie_baby
Member
my local hmv was down for closure soon, but was in their yesterday and all the closing down sale posters have been removed and the staff were confident it was surviving
frankie_baby
Member
oh they do to paying customers, they just dont publish them for the unwashed masses
zomgbbqftw
Banned
Or not.
Ya, I can confirm the source - it's on the front page of the 29/03 issue - very brief, pretty much as OP says - down to HMV and Monster Hunter 3 Ut launch:
thanks, OP updated.
Ah of course. I didn't appreciate the retail margins on consoles were so small!
Baconsammy
Banned
With all the "Not on Wii U" threads, it's getting harder and harder to imagine that.
Ummm... that isn't the problem here.
You know it's bad when Vita has had more recent game announcements :lol
Software sells hardware. I'm not surprised. It was a only temporary boost, but for a very short time after the MH3 preorders began, Wii U managed to break the Amazon.de Top 20. In fact, when I ordered my copy back in January, it was number one. No huge price cut or anything, just a game release people are interested in. That's what Nintendo needs.
You're talking about the indie stuff? Or did some non-indie Vita games get announced when I wasn't looking? Wii U gets indie games announced too every day but for some reason they don't get talked much here.
tassletine
Member
A friend of mine tired to get one and was told that they hadn't had any in stock for months and neither did any of the other stores in the area as they were just getting rid of old stock. The central London store reportedly had about 200 units. I'm sure there were some elsewhere but they were scarce.
frankie_baby
Member
If as it seems this price cut is Nintendo's doing its possible they may want to even restock some of branches that run out?
So YOU know the numbers. Care to share ?
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
a £130 price drop shifts units to fence sitters scared this may be "as good as it gets". Who knew.
Lets not pretend 5k sales of MH3U contributed to some seismic shift in WiiU fortunes though.
Lets not pretend 5k sales of MH3U contributed to some seismic shift in WiiU fortunes though.
frankie_baby
Member
I'd say 3k per week is a fair guess at hardware sales before this bump, we know it did 25k software in February so that's about 6k a week, absolutely no new games were released in Feb and the install base is tiny so can't imagine their would have been many random software purchases, so I'd imagine hardware sales were around half the level of software (consistent with launch attach rate of about 2, all figures include bundles), so about 3k hardware assuming it stayed consistent into march, so about 7k with this bump
frankie_baby
Member
Justzisguyukno
Member
Man people are harsh in this thread 
I hope this helps boost sales over the next few weeks at least. Every little bit I would think helps, right?
I hope this helps boost sales over the next few weeks at least. Every little bit I would think helps, right?
RoombaDance
Member
Why sell consoles at a loss when you can have retailers take the loss for you? Sucks for HMV to have so much excess stock though.
I wonder if Nintendo could sell consoles to retailers at a discount for a limited time without an official price drop. Basically lower the price to help retailer profit margins until a few more games come out.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Because they won't continue to buy the stock at high prices only to sell at low prices?
After a year of failures? it better be...
Because retailers won't buy new stock. And if you lose shelf space it is hard to gain it back.
Baconsammy
Banned
Steve Nash rebounds better than Nintendo. Step yo' game up! Sorry, Marcus.
Risk Breaker
Member
140 pounds price cut.
125% sales increase.
Hmmm :/
125% sales increase.
Hmmm :/
shinra-bansho
Member
Meh. When Monster Hunter Online debuted in Japan on the 360, its sales rose by 750%.
Bucket-o-roadkill
Member
Over here in the UK, I went to two big supermarkets tonight, neither had the Wii U stocked at all. There was no sign that the thing even exists. Before Christmas there was a couple of shelves selling the things but they have obviously given up and pulled it completely. Wow. Nintendo have fallen flat on their faces here with this machine, relying FAR too heavily on the brand power of the Wii alone to sell the console instead of good old fashioned marketing.
frankie_baby
Member
Its apparently Nintendo taking the loss here and hmv doesn't own the stock anyway
What non-indie games have been announced recently?
metalslimer
Member
Er..no
Did you not notice the word "if" at the start of the post you quoted?
If you've been following PAL charts threads then you'll be able to make a pretty good estimation of sales from the various sales numbers posted by people with data. The console is unlikely to be selling much more than a couple of thousand per week, if that.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
So apparently good news is no news?
Might as well call NeoGAF "ShitalloverWiiUGAF" since that's what it's become. For all it's faults and even lower sales, Vita was never treated this poorly.
Also, ENOUGH WITH THE "NO GAMES" BULLSHIT! I guess strong system sellers like NSMBU, ZombiU, Nintendoland, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and Lego City aren't games. Not to mention several strong ports including the console superior NFS Most Wanted U. Go check what the PS2 had in it's shitty "launch window" and you'll wonder how the hell it became so huge (outside of being the cheapest DVD player.) Some newer systems take time to find their footing. Like the 3DS did.
Look, normally I ignore this stuff because there is a lot of truth to it. Nintendo is charging too much for this system and it's sales are hurting as a cause and making publishers shy away. I know that. But the constant attacks on the system in ANY thread it gets mentioned in is getting to be a bit much. It really is a great system and I love the Miiverse. Just not at the current price.
So criticism, yes. Out and out attacks in every thread the system is mentioned? No. Cut down on the cynicism already. It's getting out of hand. It's hard. I know. But having a more positive outlook on things is much better than being negative all the time.
Might as well call NeoGAF "ShitalloverWiiUGAF" since that's what it's become. For all it's faults and even lower sales, Vita was never treated this poorly.
Also, ENOUGH WITH THE "NO GAMES" BULLSHIT! I guess strong system sellers like NSMBU, ZombiU, Nintendoland, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and Lego City aren't games. Not to mention several strong ports including the console superior NFS Most Wanted U. Go check what the PS2 had in it's shitty "launch window" and you'll wonder how the hell it became so huge (outside of being the cheapest DVD player.) Some newer systems take time to find their footing. Like the 3DS did.
Look, normally I ignore this stuff because there is a lot of truth to it. Nintendo is charging too much for this system and it's sales are hurting as a cause and making publishers shy away. I know that. But the constant attacks on the system in ANY thread it gets mentioned in is getting to be a bit much. It really is a great system and I love the Miiverse. Just not at the current price.
So criticism, yes. Out and out attacks in every thread the system is mentioned? No. Cut down on the cynicism already. It's getting out of hand. It's hard. I know. But having a more positive outlook on things is much better than being negative all the time.
TheDrowningMan
Member
It's never been rolled out fully - The majority of Asda & Tesco stores I've been in didn't stock it at launch, and never have.