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[Visualante2]

Is 220 K bad for Wii U?

Very, it is under performing based on how it has sold this year. And given the price drop/ and Mario one-two punch it's inexplicably bad.

 

[FourMyle]

220k Wii U
215k Mario

 

[PBY]

Ohh, well, sounded like it in the PR.

But yeah, 220k in NOVEMBER is terribad. I would understand June or some shit. But peak fucking season and only 220k.

With Mario AND Zelda.

Woof.

 

[Immaculate]

So, 2DS was included then.
Eeeeeeeeh, it's a good number, but it should have sold 1 million this month.
At least, December has Pokémon 2DS bundles, so it's certainly going to be a good December.

we said the same thing about this month because of the black friday 99 dollar 2ds

stop

 

[Derrick01]

That's a massive decrease for Pokemon.

Sorry, I didn't do my part since I only bought X today.

 

[UNCMark]

Really bummed about the Wii U. I love this system!

Glad the other systems are doing well, at least.

Me too, it's great, but I bought it knowing it would only be getting Nintendo support. These awful numbers dont change that. I own a PS4, so there's no reason to even consider another console for multi-plats.

 

[flippedb]

GTAV sold extremely well I believe. Record breaking, even.

He did say GOTY, not GTA

 

[illmatic22]

#DEAD

 

[Beant]

Yep.

245K (Dreamcast, November 1999)
192K (Dreamcast, November 2000)
259K (Dreamcast, November 2001)

holy shit.

wow


thanks for the nums, but wow.

 

[Sandfox]

That's a massive decrease for Pokemon.

Pokemon seems to sell over time in the west rather than blow up the charts.

 

[Sammy Samusu]

Zelda - 405,000

Slay a bit.

 

[metalslimer]

Pokemon numbers also seem pretty mediocre for the holiday season the month after launch. I mean it's easily going to sell 10 million worldwide in the end at least.

 

[Kusagari]

What did Dreamcast sell its second November?

Edit: NM saw above.

 

[Asd202]

So, 2DS was included then.
Eeeeeeeeh, it's a good number, but it should have sold 1 million this month.
At least, December has Pokémon 2DS bundles, so it's certainly going to be a good December.

LoL you're so biased .

 

[braves01]

That's not the scene with the skull. You mean, Alas poor Wii U!

Oh yeah the graveyard scene. Whoops.

Well, maybe he can hold a dagger like Lawrence Olivier, or whatever the blade used for seppuku is called.

 

[CitizenCope]

Don't know how I don't know this after years of following NPD. My digital PS4 purchases show up in these numbers?

 

[Averon]

Holyshit! 220k for the Wii U in Nov with Black Friday is a fucking disaster.

Iwata is so dead. He's a dead man walking.

 

[Manmademan]

220k is what the Vita did last November too.

Uh, yeah.

I don't think there's any more to be said here.

Holy fuck. that's HORRIBLE.

I eagerly await the nintendo fan spin about how the vita is dead, and sony should get the fuck out of handhelds, but nintendo is still viable here.

 

[Replicant]

The Nintendo brand is finally over. Maybe next decade!

It's over, period. Nintendo lost the casuals, and that's the end of their Wii U hopes and dreams.

It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for Wii U. Nintendo has nothing left, nothing they have can fix the hole now created. There is no reason left for anyone, hardcore or casual, to substantially invest in a Wii U. Except if they want to play Bayonetta 2. Which will also come to PS4 at some point.

Microsoft and Sony took the last reason away that anyone would NEED to own a WiiU over a PS4 or Xbox one(except Miiverse LOL GAMING), and the cavalcade of tiny titles that will be nice but won't stir up any sales is not going to salvage the underpowered non-entity that was Wii U.

There may be some hardcore gamers that stick around. Some did it for PS3 too. But the last bell tolled. Maybe next decade.

The age of Nintendo is done.

 

[Curufinwe]

Second best-launch of all time is a wake up call? For a $500 console?

I think MS can hit the snooze button.

If they are only even with Sony in NA then they will be well behind in worldwide sales.

 

[B.O.O.M]

220k? Yikes..I was thinking 300k+ and even then that was bad.

With every NPD I can't but laugh at the Nintendo's hardware forecast for the wiiu

 

[Imm0rt4l]

lmao

 

[FreedomFighter]

I'm not so sure. PSP was a good start, but they failed to properly capitalized with the Vita. They might still turn it around with a deep price cut on both hardware and memory cards as well as some value adds.

On the other end, Nintendo would do well to get out of the console business and focus solely on handhelds...can't really see Nintendo righting the U boat at this stage. It's basically dead...

Sony can right the Vita ship but Nintendo is done with the Wii U? Yeah, that makes sense.
They're both done.

 

[Plinko]

Nintendo needs to kill this machine and move all games past Mario Kart 8 on to a console more powerful than PS4 and released in 2015/2016.

Have what were supposed to be Wii U Smash Bros and Zelda be launch titles for the new system.

Glad to see Zelda 3DS sell so much, though. What a fantastic game.

 

[Riki]

Incredible, but yeah....the same year Yamauchi died could be the same year Mario died. Incredible. Somehow I feel really old now having been raised playing NEW and Mario Bros.

It was fucking 30 years ago. Maybe the time really is over and people now see games differently.....

Ok I'll stop saying bullshit sorry. Just feeling a bit nostalgic.

Uhh. No.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Kill the wiiu Nintendo.

there's nothing to gain by riding this turd for a couple more years just to say it wasn't killed too soon.

the market didn't want it, no shame in accepting that.

 

[def sim]

I feel super bummed about the WIi U. Congratulations to both Sony and Microsoft, though not seeing at least one first party game on the top ten list is disappointing.

 

[antonz]

Hardware bundles not counted here so....

Packed in software bundles aren't counted. Retail forced buy bundles are

 

[StoopKid]

First month sales:

[WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) {November 12, 2007} - 1,120,000
[WIU] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) {November 22, 2013} - 215,000

wow.

 

[chrominance]

220k is what the Vita did last November too.

Uh, yeah.

I don't think there's any more to be said here.

that's not true

someone needs to say the Vita numbers

Vita
post if youre okay
pls

Spoiler

Poor Tearaway. Vita is well and truly fucked.

 

[Immaculate]

Zelda - 405,000

Slay a bit.

how is that compared to other Zelda games?

 

[titusandronicus]

Live Reaction to NPD thread on NeoGAF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUQl5-6_Uw *Link removed as of 19/12/13*

 

[Mr.Marston]

Sales of Wii U hardware increased by more than 340 percent over sales in October.​

So ~220k.

C'mon Sony, break your guidelines and release your goddam sales. Even Nintendo had the guts to spill out Wii U's pathetic numnbers.

That picture is hilarious lol.

Congrats to Sony for attaining leadership position in the market.

 

[Art Teitlebaum]

It's over, period. Nintendo lost their last ace, and that's the end of their Wii U hopes and dreams.

It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for Wii U. Nintendo has nothing left, nothing they can reveal tomorrow would fix the hole now created. There is no reason left for any one, hardcore or casual, to substantively invest in a Wii U. Except if they want to play SM3DW. Which will also come to Xbox One at some point.

The age of Nintendo is done.

Spoiler

*This is a joke post.

Haha, all the memories. This thread is starting to warm up.

 

[Yamauchi]

Comparison data. We are in Dreamcast territory.

In honor of this historic month, I've compiled a full list of November (Black Friday) performances throughout the decades to compare performances to.

Note: these numbers only represent the console in its prime (1996-present), and don't contain the November that the console launched in (because so many of these consoles have November launches).


November (Black Friday) month comparisons (post-launch year, 1996-present):
Sega:

96K (Saturn, November 1996)

245K (Dreamcast, November 1999)
192K (Dreamcast, November 2000)
259K (Dreamcast, November 2001)

Lowest month: 92K (Saturn, November 1996)
Highest month: 259K (Dreamcast, November 2001)


Nintendo:

764K (N64, November 1997)
718K (N64, November 1998)
465K (N64, November 1999)
275K (N64, November 2000)

424K (GameCube, November 2002)
751K (GameCube, November 2003)
350K (GameCube, November 2004)
272K (GameCube, November 2005)

981K (Wii, November 2007)
2040K (Wii, November 2008)
1260K (Wii, November 2009)
1270K (Wii, November 2010)
863K (Wii, November 2011)
420K (Wii, November 2012)

Lowest month: 272K (GameCube, November 2005)
Highest month: 2040K (Wii, November 2008)

 

[cpp_is_king]

Now we jsut need Vita.

 

[Vizzeh]

The Nintendo brand is finally over. Maybe next decade!

It's over, period. Nintendo lost the casuals, and that's the end of their Wii U hopes and dreams.

It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for Wii U. Nintendo has nothing left, nothing they have can fix the hole now created. There is no reason left for anyone, hardcore or casual, to substantially invest in a Wii U. Except if they want to play Bayonetta 2. Which will also come to PS4 at some point.

Microsoft and Sony took the last reason away that anyone would NEED to own a WiiU over a PS4 or Xbox one(except Miiverse LOL GAMING), and the cavalcade of tiny titles that will be nice but won't stir up any sales is not going to salvage the underpowered non-entity that was Wii U.

There may be some hardcore gamers that stick around. Some did it for PS3 too. But the last bell tolled. Maybe next decade.

The age of Nintendo is done.

There is a heartless truth in that statement, sad and true - Everyone loves Nintendo surely, even if they did screw up

 

[SwiftDeath]

Still need PS4 numbers

Between 900K and 1616K is a wide berth plus I'd love the actual software attach rate

 

[AHA-Lambda]

So about 220k for WiiU? ouch

215k for SM3DW inc digital is bad D:

 

[Oblivion]

Yeah we got nothing on that . Probably terrible as there is no Nintendo PR.

Lame.

It can't be that bad, though. I mean, even the goddamned Wii-U should break 200k at least, right?


...Right?

 

[ffdgh]

hey guys so if wiiu is doing worse than dreamcast, does the dream of nintendo 3rd party will become reality? T_T im crying tears of joy

Nope.

 

[Dr. Randy Marsh]

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[1st Course]

10m LTD? Isn't the DS at like 60m or something?

The 3DS will be lucky if it hit even half that number.

 

[Yawnier]

First month sales:

[WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) {November 12, 2007} - 1,120,000
[WIU] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) {November 22, 2013} - 215,000

Man oh man, that is a huge drop.

 

[Cat Party]

This console war sucks. PS4 is the hotter ticket but XB1 is doing great as well. How am I supposed to overreact to this?

 

[equippedwithtowel]

Nintendo needs to kill this machine and move all games past Mario Kart 8 on to a console more powerful than PS4 and released in 2015/2016.

Have what were supposed to be Wii U Smash Bros and Zelda be launch titles for the new system.

So kill themselves faster?

Good idea

 

[JABEE]

So, when does Wii 3 get released?

 

[schuelma]

Yep, Nintendo is fugged.

 

[FourMyle]

lmfao

 

[Papercuts]

Goddamn wiiu. :\

Nintendo seriously needs to do something, but at this point it's hard to see it turning this around.