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April 2013 NPD Sales Results [Up3: Xbox 360 Top Platform, NSMBU LTD, Lego 3DS, Luigi]

They didn't let them walk away. They went to iOS/Android/Facebook/etc. If anything Nintendo pretty much abandoning that audience on the Wii was the biggest mistake they've made in the last decade. They wanted to get in the core gaming dollars and have failed miserably.

Surely they must of thought or even one person high up at Nintendo , that a lot of these core gamers were waiting to invest into platforms with significant leaps over predecessors, that have strong third party support and robust online networks.

I remember the buzz about Project Cafe, it was great, then we end up with Wii U.
 

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.
Clocking off on the bombshell of WiiU beneath 40k. Good lord.

Imagine if it sold the same as SS. IMAGINE.
 

SmokyDave

Member
it's closer to 1.3m about now.
Sigh. That's pretty painful.
Ah, well then I'm not too sure if 33k is that good, but then again it's a niche title. So maybe not bad once you factor in digital sales as well (if you Vita owners are like me, you prefer the digital versions).
I dunno. Speculating on digital sales always draws the ire of people, so I'll just say I hope they made up a nice proportion. Certainly I'm 100% DD on Vita, including SS.
 

AniHawk

Member
my unofficial guess was 40k-45k. looks like that was off. i was contemplating going lower.

worst-case scenario: the wii u is selling 7.5k units a week. best-case scenario: a little under 10k a week.
 

Duxxy3

Member
The percentage in MS PR is include WiiU.

360>ps3>100k>50k>Wii>40k>WiiU>30k

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My god, what a disaster.
 

mujun

Member
Games are undoubtedly front-loaded, but to the degree that only the first week really matters? I'm not buying it.

My impression from these threads was that most games do something like 80% of their first month sales in the first week.

Experts?
 
Why now? 55K and under 40K are both horrendous.

It's going to go lower. Nothing to change the tide until Pikmin 3. No platform has rebounded from these kinds of numbers. It's so historically bad that its unfathomable. Hell if you had suggested these numbers months ago you might have been banned for trolling.
 

ascii42

Member
I dunno. Speculating on digital sales always draws the ire of people, so I'll just say I hope they made up a nice proportion. Certainly I'm 100% DD on Vita, including SS.

At least with digital you know that the people who really matter (publishers, developers) know exactly how many their games are selling, and can use that information to help determine future support, even if we rarely get that information.
 
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