The Wii U/Nintendo sales and financial data thread

Adsta · 30 Oct 2013 at 13:29

XeNoN89 said:
10,000 WiiU's have been sent back to Nintendo from european retailers because they can't sell them, and you think that's heading in the right direction?

Wii U will be discontinued by 2015 at this rate.

Since when has the EU been the "be all and end all" for a global market ? Japan and the US are freaking huge markets compared to the EU.

Also as mentioned sales are increasing in both consoles and software for Nintendo. Oddly enough I have just purchased a WiiU (Zelda bundle) myself. The only reason I held off was lack of games the WiiU is slowly but surely getting better games out for it. With more better games coming out for it more people may possibly buy one (Of course they might not !).

I can't see Nintendo going away anytime soon.

XeNoN89 · 30 Oct 2013 at 13:40

Adsta said:
Since when has the EU been the "be all and end all" for a global market ? Japan and the US are freaking huge markets compared to the EU.

Also as mentioned sales are increasing in both consoles and software for Nintendo. Oddly enough I have just purchased a WiiU (Zelda bundle) myself. The only reason I held off was lack of games the WiiU is slowly but surely getting better games out for it. With more better games coming out for it more people may possibly buy one (Of course they might not !).

I can't see Nintendo going away anytime soon.

I didn't say Nintendo are going anywhere, just that the Wii U will end up discontinued, I'm well aware that Nintendo made enough money from the Wii to create a few more failures like the Wii U before they get in any trouble.

Sales in Japan are atrocious as well, they sold only 2,598 Wii Us there last week. People are HOPING that some bundles due out will help, however I don't expect anything more than a small boost in sales for a few weeks.

Sales in the US are also abysmal and are way lower than the Gamecube was at this point, which also ended up being discontinued early.

Owenb · 30 Oct 2013 at 13:43

Adsta said:
Since when has the EU been the "be all and end all" for a global market ? Japan and the US are freaking huge markets compared to the EU.

Also as mentioned sales are increasing in both consoles and software for Nintendo. Oddly enough I have just purchased a WiiU (Zelda bundle) myself. The only reason I held off was lack of games the WiiU is slowly but surely getting better games out for it. With more better games coming out for it more people may possibly buy one (Of course they might not !).

I can't see Nintendo going away anytime soon.

The EU market is similar in size to the US and both are far bigger than Japan - especially the console market. It's probably 45%/40%/15% (US/EU/JP)

Nintendo will need a few system sellers and it doesn't look like they have any in the next ~6 months. Mario/Zelda aren't system sellers, they are games that people buy if they already have the console.

jrodga2k5 · 30 Oct 2013 at 17:13

Broken Hope said:
I was slightly off with the time frame, but that doesn't help the fact that they are far from their targets.

If 3D World, Mario Kart and Smash Bros don't turn things around massively then there's no chance of them even doing Gamecube level of sales, let alone anywhere close to Wii sales.

Wii Party U already flopped so they still aren't getting the casual market.

I still can't fathom how they are managing negative shipments in the EU, I knew things were bad, but negative shipments is something else, I could potentially see the console being dropped by more and more retailers to make space for the other 2 next gen systems.

Yeah it doesn't help but was just stating the time frame difference, can give a skewed look.

Well the hope is the Wind Waker Bundle has indeed caught attention, it certainly appears so and should be part of the next Quarter's sales and Mario does look an amazing game, if they ramp up the marketing which seemed to be indicating then hopefully sales will continue to improve.

Wii Party U has been out for a week or something...give it a break

Although I doubt it'll do wonders...wonders being a massive stretch of course!

Hey if it all pans out it wasn't great we know they're financially secure for many a failure plus the Pokemon money has started to roll in again

Plainsong · 30 Oct 2013 at 18:39

Mario does indeed look great fun. Be interesting to see the figures after the Christmas holiday. If there are £199 offers flying around I think that could tempt a lot of present buying parents.

Boomstick777 · 31 Oct 2013 at 07:06

^^ That's another thing the Wii U can offer, traditional fun games, and a lot of emphasis on local multiplayer. Also once people realize that the Wii U isn't really as far behind the other consoles as some would suggest, because currently people tend to think it isn't next gen, or somehow Xbone and PS4 are so far ahead, but fact is the Xbone is only 720P on most games, people will realize that the specs aren't that bad, and the exclusives games are awesome looking. I think Mario / Donkey Kong / Mario Kart 8 will boost sales massively, to the point that midway into next year the Wii U will be in a entirely different position. After those games launch is the time to judge how well it will sell..

jrodga2k5 · 31 Oct 2013 at 07:53

Boomstick777 said:
^^ That's another thing the Wii U can offer, traditional fun games, and a lot of emphasis on local multiplayer. Also once people realize that the Wii U isn't really as far behind the other consoles as some would suggest, because currently people tend to think it isn't next gen, or somehow Xbone and PS4 are so far ahead, but fact is the Xbone is only 720P on most games, people will realize that the specs aren't that bad, and the exclusives games are awesome looking. I think Mario / Donkey Kong / Mario Kart 8 will boost sales massively, to the point that midway into next year the Wii U will be in a entirely different position. After those games launch is the time to judge how well it will sell..

Yup...it's starting to ramp up and will do over the next 6-8 months, need to give it a bit more time, if it doesn't help then they can worry.

XeNoN89 · 2 Nov 2013 at 20:34

Less than 500,000 Wii U's sold worldwide in 6 months

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/30/wii-u-nintendo-sells-under-500000-in-six-months

This thing is as good as dead to be honest

Boomstick777 · 3 Nov 2013 at 00:08

XeNoN89 said:

Haha that did raise a smile

rare · 3 Nov 2013 at 00:51

Nintendo should move to be a handheld console maker, which it excels at, and make software for the PS4.

Then I wouldn't have to consider even buying a Nintendo console just to play a handful of first part games. They would do very well out of it I am sure!

budge1972 · 3 Nov 2013 at 18:41

Its still early days for the Wii U and Nintendo has over 800 billion yen in the kitty.
I doubt you will see any Nintendo games on other systems for a long long time.

budge1972 · 6 Nov 2013 at 18:00

Huge jump in Wii U sales in Japan since the new bundles came out
From 3k to 39k.
I should think sales will jump up even more when 3d worlds is released.
http://wiiudaily.com/2013/11/wii-party-u-japanese-sales/

Broken Hope · 6 Nov 2013 at 18:36

Will need to see what sales are like next week, could just be a short term spike like when Pikmin released and it jumped to 21k for the week.

jrodga2k5 · 7 Nov 2013 at 12:55

budge1972 said:
Huge jump in Wii U sales in Japan since the new bundles came out
From 3k to 39k.
I should think sales will jump up even more when 3d worlds is released.
http://wiiudaily.com/2013/11/wii-party-u-japanese-sales/

Good news indeed...the bundles will certainly help

I see Pokemon has sold over 2.7 million copies in Japan already...oh Nintendo and your financial woes

Broken Hope · 11 Nov 2013 at 16:59

Looks like 3rd party game sales are truly dead on the Wii U

UK chart: COD Ghosts top, more copies sold on PS4 than Wii U

The game sells more copies on an unreleased console than one that's been out a year.

merlin · 11 Nov 2013 at 18:23

COD and the likes just isn't Nintendo material, this proves it.

Square peg round hole.

McBain · 11 Nov 2013 at 18:32

lol, COD.

Broken Hope · 13 Nov 2013 at 17:18

Nintendo still unable to gain any real momentum, sales have collapsed in Japan after only a week.

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|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
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| 3DS # |     74.255 |     86.868 |    168.662 |  3.939.648 |  3.889.933 |  13.702.150 |
|  PSV  |     22.924 |     28.219 |      4.263 |    859.259 |    582.254 |   1.936.418 |
|  WIU  |     14.060 |     40.118 |            |    500.492 |            |   1.138.831 |
|  PS3  |     11.932 |     11.754 |     19.369 |    690.110 |  1.054.556 |   9.434.443 |
| PSP # |      3.424 |      3.345 |     11.749 |    391.328 |    761.669 |  19.570.428 |
|  WII  |        793 |        663 |      3.020 |     66.784 |    437.286 |  12.727.526 |
|  360  |        245 |        184 |      2.592 |     15.959 |     56.451 |   1.603.970 |
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|  ALL  |    127.633 |    171.151 |    210.455 |  6.470.357 |  6.831.046 |  82.100.898 |
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|  PSP  |      3.424 |      3.345 |     11.749 |    391.328 |    761.669 |  19.409.853 |
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Plainsong · 13 Nov 2013 at 18:43

3DS wowzer doing good numbers. Any Wii U Pokemon games on the cards? New Mario will no doubt give it another bump. Have we got NA figures?

Broken Hope · 13 Nov 2013 at 18:48

Plainsong said:
3DS wowzer doing good numbers. Any Wii U Pokemon games on the cards? New Mario will no doubt give it another bump. Have we got NA figures?

Think we get NA figures next week. I've no doubt that Mario and Christmas will give it a bump, it's just Nintendo needs more than the odd spike in sales every time something major comes out, they need steady and much higher than 10-15k a week sales.

[edit]

It's actually tomorrow for NA figures from October.