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NPD Sales Results for March 2013 [Up5: BioShock Infinite]

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TheUnknownForce

Member
Aquamarine said:
GameCube: 111,236 in March 2002 (5 week reporting period), or 22,247 per week.

So 65,000 for the Wii U in March 2013 (5 week reporting period), or 13,000 per week, is pretty horrible.
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Well, note the lineups between the two to see why sales were the way they were.

GameCube:
Luigi's Mansion
Wave Race: Blue Storm
Pikmin
Super Smash Brothers Melee
Rouge Squadron II
Super Monkey Ball
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Promising third-party support

Wii U:
New Super Mario Bros U
Nintendo Land
Sing Party
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
LEGO City Undercover
ZombiU
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Need for Speed Most Wanted U
No third-party support

I'm not defending the Wii U's horrible "launch window" here, but it is pretty obvious that there was at least some hype going on with GameCube within the core gamer audience and not sheer abandonment of support like Wii U.
 
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CrunchyB

Member
TheNatural said:
Yikes

So much for the "in the same time period it sold more than 360!" shit that was going on a couple months ago. Those people sure have shut up.
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Ever since the January drop off it was clear that the 360 would overtake it.

It's not going to be get better until some good games come out either, so not until fall at the very earliest. And the Wind Waker upgrade alone isn't going to cut it either.
 
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FLAguy954

Junior Member
Psychotext said:
It's going to be a hard, HARD summer for the Wii U.
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It can only go 'up' from there ;)
 
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Gonzo The Great

Banned
PhantomR said:
Just because Nintendo does what they always do when it comes to product design, doesn't mean whatsoever that they're "arrogant".
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The NES launched at 200 dollars and was more powerful than the competition at the time.
The SNES launched at 200 dollars and was more powerful than the competition at the time.
The N64 launched at 200 dollars and was more powerful than the competition at the time.
The GCN launched at 200 dollars and was more powerful than the competition at the time.
The Wii launched at 250 dollars and was weaker than the competition, although much cheaper.
The Wii U launched at 350 dollars and is just as powerful as the competition, yet more expensive.

Combine this with a poor launch lineup, name/brand confusion, and nearly zero advertising, Nintendo is arrogant for expecting it to sell more than 20,000 units. And I say this as a lifelong Nintendo fan who primarily plays Nintendo games.
 
Metallix87

Metallix87

Member
Gonzo The Great said:
The NES launched at 200 dollars and was more powerful than the competition at the time.
The SNES launched at 200 dollars and was more powerful than the competition at the time.
The N64 launched at 200 dollars and was more powerful than the competition at the time.
The GCN launched at 200 dollars and was more powerful than the competition at the time.
The Wii launched at 250 dollars and was weaker than the competition, although much cheaper.
The Wii U launched at 350 dollars and is just as powerful as the competition, yet more expensive.
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Poor logic. By your example, Wii U's competition would be PS4 and 720, and those will likely be more expensive than Wii U.
 
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A Human Becoming

More than a Member
When it comes to the poor Wii U and Vita sales, do most people here thing it's more due to the marketing or the hardware not being appropriate for the market (high price of Vita, Wii U gamepad, etc.)?
 
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SolarPowered

Member
A Human Becoming said:
When it comes to the poor Wii U and Vita sales, do most people here thing it's more due to the marketing or the hardware not being appropriate for the market (high price of Vita, Wii U gamepad, etc.)?
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Both things.

They're products made for a market that just isn't interested. Nintendo going with power comparable to that of 7 year old systems and Sony pushing the price too high with an OLED screen and proprietary memory.
 
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Amir0x

Banned
A Human Becoming said:
When it comes to the poor Wii U and Vita sales, do most people here thing it's more due to the marketing or the hardware not being appropriate for the market (high price of Vita, Wii U gamepad, etc.)?
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Vita is due to the gaming dedicated handheld market slowly dying as well as the premium compared to 3DS - no room for a second competitor at all, and with a sputtering game handheld market in NA slowly fading away drip by drip and being replaced by all-for-one products like tablets and phones, even Nintendo will be wondering what to do in a generation or two.

Wii U is just due to every bad choice. Shitty hardware that has already being rendered irrelevant for the majority of third parties; no games; its hardware gimmick is simply not compelling in a mass market setting; and the specter of PS4 and Xbox 720 around the corner which are already guaranteed to demolish the platform hardware-wise, and probably already have better third party support and there's hardly anything announced for them lol
 
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Scum

Junior Member
A Human Becoming said:
When it comes to the poor Wii U and Vita sales, do most people here thing it's more due to the marketing or the hardware not being appropriate for the market (high price of Vita, Wii U gamepad, etc.)?
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There's been bugger all to play on both systems, post launch. And whatever there has been has had next to no awareness at all. They are both in dire need of system sellers.
 
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AniHawk

Member
Sho_Nuff82 said:
What does Sony even do with the Vita at this point? Wait for Killzone before they drop the price? I've never seen a platform with so little buzz.
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honestly, they're just keeping it afloat until the ps4 comes out and they can position it as a fancy peripheral, i think. if that fails, then the system will just quietly be silenced in early 2015.

it's not like it hasn't had anything that has done well. it's gaining some support in japan, slowly. it just wont ever be what the psp was.
 
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Gonzo The Great

Banned
Green Slime said:
Poor logic. By your example, Wii U's competition would be PS4 and 720, and those will likely be more expensive than Wii U.
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Why talk about the future when we're analyzing March 2013 sales data? Right now the Wii U is competing with the PS3 and 360, and it's failing miserably. Yes, clearly my analysis will change once Sony and Microsoft release their next generation consoles. I was mainly proving wrong PhantomR's claim that Nintendo is "doing what they always do" when in actuality they always used to make affordability and power a top priority.
 
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