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NinChocolate

I feel like the last update on Wii U numbers in April was that it was still 9.Something million...?

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Haruki_NLI

I think after Splatoon it is comfortably over 10M now.

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Haruki_NLI

SuperWiiU wrote:

BLPs wrote:

I think after Splatoon it is comfortably over 10M now.

Just by sales in Japan alone it should've.

I saw that. I think it seriously has. While it isn't the PS4 or to a lesser extent the Xbox One, it's still a console with its own excellent games.

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DefHalan

Probably but we will never know for sure unless Nintendo says something, but they probably won't since it would still look small compared to the other two consoles.

People keep saying the Xbox One doesn't have Backwards Compatibility.
I don't think they know what Backwards Compatibility means...

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SuperWiiU

DefHalan wrote:

Probably but we will never know for sure unless Nintendo says something, but they probably won't since it would still look small compared to the other two consoles.

We'll definitely know at the end of the financial year for Nintendo. But by then it should be 12 million or so.

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Haruki_NLI

DefHalan wrote:

Probably but we will never know for sure unless Nintendo says something, but they probably won't since it would still look small compared to the other two consoles.

It's a crying shame that all that matters to people is power and sales, not the damn games.

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Peek-a-boo

If the NX does indeed come out next Christmas, I cannot foresee the Wii U selling any more than 13 million by the end of its already short life.

A real shame, but the Wii-crowd jumped to their quick fix mobile phone (and iPad) games whilst the rest either bought a new console or stopped playing games altogether. The dominant era of the DS and Wii is all but over; Nintendo won't ever see the likes of that happening ever again, even though I'd like them to!

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rallydefault

Peek-a-boo wrote:

If the NX does indeed come out next Christmas, I cannot foresee the Wii U selling any more than 13 million by the end of its already short life.

A real shame, but the Wii-crowd jumped to their quick fix mobile phone (and iPad) games whilst the rest either bought a new console or stopped playing games altogether. The dominant era of the DS and Wii is all but over; Nintendo won't ever see the likes of that happening ever again, even though I'd like them to!

Well, that's what happens when you make a deal with the devil. Am I comparing people who plays games on smart phones to devils? Maybe.

Maybe.

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Peach64

Why do people keep assuming it's gone passed 10 million? They'd shipped 9.54 at the end of March this year. Since then we know for a fact they've sold 140,000 units in Japan and 80,000 units in North America, since the numbers come out every week/month. That's still 240,000 units short and I doubt they sold that many in Europe as they keep saying it's their weakest market.

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insert reference to that stupid Miiverse post about 7 million people living on Earth in total here, lol

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dumedum

SuperWiiU wrote:

BLPs wrote:

I think after Splatoon it is comfortably over 10M now.

Just by sales in Japan alone it should've.

I agree. In May and June alone it sold about 150,000 in Japan.

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Peach64

Tsurii wrote:

Peach64 wrote:

They'd shipped 9.54 at the end of March this year.

Weren't those 9.5 mio sales and not shipped units, tho?

Nope. Any time Nintendo puts figures in a press release it's shipped. Same as Microsoft.

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dumedum

Peach64 wrote:

Tsurii wrote:

Peach64 wrote:

They'd shipped 9.54 at the end of March this year.

Weren't those 9.5 mio sales and not shipped units, tho?

Nope. Any time Nintendo puts figures in a press release it's shipped. Same as Microsoft.

I don't know where you get that. Nintendo says "sold", not "shipped" in its official reports.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/convocation_notice1506e...

and that's how it was reported too.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=...

So unless Nintendo is lying to the public and everybody is wrong...

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Octane

@dumedum Nintendo sold 9.54 million Wii U's by shipping them, doesn't mean all of those 9.54 million Wii U's are set up and hooked to a TV in someone's house. Nintendo sold them to retailers, not customers.

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dumedum

@Octane and how do you know that? I don't see this explanation in Nintendo's reports, and it's not the plain meaning of the word. I don't think it's a sale to a retailer if it's not sold to the consumer. After all, they're also describing the digital sales (for games) which are direct to consumer, so this would be converging two distinct numbers together which doesn't make much sense, but if it does, unreliable, unless you're saying hardware is shipped, games is sold. Just asking where does it say that this is the definition Nintendo is using. It should be in Nintendo's Annual Report definition.

If it's really not 10 million users but 10 million shipped units, how many of these are installed at home? This makes the attach rate of Nintendo like Mario Kart 8 even more amazing.

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Peach64

It's how it's always worked for every business out there. It's why Sony keeps on stating 'sold through to consumers' in their sales boasts because 'units sold' just means shipped. They'll stop that pretty soon too and just start using 'units sold' as well.

It counts as a sale when they get their money. They get their money when the retailer buys hardware and physical software, and they get their money when the consumer buys digital, so it does make sense to combine them when talking about totals. They don't need to mention how many copies/units a retailer has sold in their reports as it doesn't make a bit of difference to them. The number actually sold through to customers won't be much lower, as retail will only take so many units.

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Octane

dumedum wrote:

@Octane and how do you know that? I don't see this explanation in Nintendo's reports, and it's not the plain meaning of the word. I don't think it's a sale to a retailer if it's not sold to the consumer. After all, they're also describing the digital sales (for games) which are direct to consumer, so this would be converging two distinct numbers together which doesn't make much sense, but if it does, unreliable, unless you're saying hardware is shipped, games is sold. Just asking where does it say that this is the definition Nintendo is using. It should be in Nintendo's Annual Report definition.

If it's really not 10 million users but 10 million shipped units, how many of these are installed at home? This makes the attach rate of Nintendo like Mario Kart 8 even more amazing.

Because that's how it works. They always report the shipped units, because for them, that equals the sold units. With digital sales, there's no middleman, that's the only difference. And in the case of digital sales, it's sold directly to the customer. It's not that they're lying about it, they sold 9.54 million units to retailers.

The difference between shipped and sold [to customers] isn't that big I'd imagine. It's not as if there are 2 millions Wii U's sitting on store shelves. So, yes in theory, the attach rate of games might be bigger than we think, but on the other hand, that difference is relatively small, so it doesn't really matter. Plus we're assuming the sales data for games is correct as well; it's usually very close depending on your source, but it's never the absolute number.

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