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NPD Sales Results for May 2014 [Up1: Wii U Hardware]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Japan's console market is the polar opposite of America's
Thanks! I'm curious about June. And that comment from Reggie about increase of 4x week over week doesn't really fit with these figures. Unless Wii U was selling much worse than in April before the last week. Or if he was talking into consideration also the first week in June.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Imagine the sequel of Lost putting worse numbers than The Good Wife, wouldn't be that quite bad?
That's the scenario we are looking there, YoY is meaningful for Nintendo if they can't make the Wii U sold accodingly to their expectations....
ShockingAlberto
Member
The good news for the Wii U is it seems existing Wii U owners are finally buying software. Who knows if it will last, but it was a major hurdle Nintendo was having a tough time getting over. Once they make peace with the idea that the install base will never really pick up and just focus on getting a few million from their big games, it will be an easier storm to ride out.
prag16
Banned
Aquamarine said it was actually 34k I believe.
EDIT nevermind
SDCowboy
Member
How are you coming to these numbers for the PS4 and Xbone?
The CE sold out, so you can expect at least 5k for the game!
Father_Brain
Banned
Sure, June will be more telling. But I still expect it to be well under 100K, for what that's worth.
Ehh, most new buyers are getting the Titanfall bundle and Titanfall has already sold over a mill on the bone.
The install base isn't there for it to keep selling great when it's now bundled. I'm sure most of the people who had bones previously and wanted TF got it already.
and they sold it at gamestop
I didn't see it mention here.
QuantumBro
Banned
Can't wait until Bayonetta 2 comes out in October and brings the WiiU to 6 figures.
NoSkillz187
Member
Yes.
Have you written to Polygon? They could do with someone like you.
Michael Armbrust
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Handy Fake
Member
EDIT: Ignore me, it's midnight here.
Where in the hell are you getting those numbers?
Same here and if I am not mistaken they said
It shipped 1 Mil?, probably sold tons on PS4 which came a month after the ps3 version
Relaxed Muscle
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postcyberpunk
Banned
The baby is Vita, Sony is the dad and the Vita community is the rescuer.
gifs don't work when you have to explain them
No our estimate was really 34K. I read the Wii's 36K at first and got confused.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Did you watch Nintendo's E3 press conference? If that didn't make the gamepad-less SKU a complete pipe dream I don't know what else will. It's never happening and I doubt it would help much anyway.
And_Gignac
Member
Wow the mk8 bundles did nothing. And so will Amiibo. The tablet-control has to be dropped.
let it die man D:
Dr Mayonnaise
Member
Plus NPD not counting bundles or digital sales. anecdotal evidence but it seems that a lot of the reddit xb1 subreddit has gone all digital so until NPD counts digital sales we will never get the real sales picture
Baby is falling, Dad ain't paying a slick of attention, random dude comes and slides saving the baby from hitting the floor.
Insane Metal
Member
I would imagine that the Wii U may hold around the 65k mark in June (give or take 5k), but I doubt that the MK8 bundle will move enough units in June to matter much. I think most people who would buy a Wii U for MK at this time of year either already has a Wii U or bought the MK8 bundle during the May reporting period. The Wii U also has a *slight* tendency to underperform, so I can't get my hopes up.
But who cares about Wii U numbers in June anyway? Nintendo is too busy selling "refurb" models to care ;D
But who cares about Wii U numbers in June anyway? Nintendo is too busy selling "refurb" models to care ;D
Hmm no mention of any hard numbers for MLB,just that it has the best first week sales in the series.
Facebook comment, probably bull but MS seems rather quiet
The MK8 bundle is just too goddamn expensive, in my opinion.
While I feel we should wait for July numbers to get a better understanding of MK8's impact on hardware sales, I also don't think that the push is so big that the console's fate changes: it's great that the game sold so well and that the Wii U will get a nice bump in July, but other than that we have to face the reality which is that this console isn't attractive to a wide range of people.
The numbers speak for themselves.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Aquamarine
Member
Oh wow, still no Microsoft PR.
May numbers must be really bad for them.
May numbers must be really bad for them.
Cygnus X-1
Member
Put it in this way: Wii U sold roughly 30k in 28 days and 30k in the remaining 2 days. Now, if this trend were to continue, Wii U would sell 450k in June. And this is impossible, obviously. However, by assuming it will sell at least 100k - this would imply a drop of roughly 80%.
Do you really think this is realistic? Even by dropping by two third, Wii U would still reach 150k in June. Which is sure way different than the dead sales of before.
Edit: June is a 35 days-month. So, 100k is definitely a lock and 150k quite likely.
dunno, if Nintendo can make the core spend $1000 (game + figurines) to get the complete smash experience, Amiibo could make an impact.
Dr. Black Jack
Member
lol @ people trying to judge the MK8 bump to Wii U sales off of the two fucking days of sales data that were counted.
postcyberpunk
Banned
So photoshop it so you don't have to explain what is what. See Stoopkid's gif,.
I don't think we've ever heard of that, what's up with this and your PS4/One numbers XD
EDIT: Just saw your other post, sorry
puffyshirt
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only 60K for wii u? really?
PS4 version, thats the shocking part that even on PS3 it never did that well in its years there
SwiftDeath
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So we going to have to wait until leaks to get PS4, XB1, 360, PS3, and 3DS numbers?
Sheesh
Sheesh