Topic: Where can sales go from here? (3.91 million)

^quick graph I put together, pretty self-explanatory.

3.91 million is needless to say...grim. I'm hoping the Wii U hits at least Gamecube numbers though and Nintendo fights back with a hardware-competitive system with a traditional controller.

Note: Wii numbers are not final, the system hit 100 million earlier this year and might end up a million or so over. We don't know the final numbers yet but it's ballpark 100 million.

3.92 million

Well once you're at rock bottom, nowhere else left to go but up.

I thought the Gamecube was somewhere around 31 million or something like that.

edit this site's forum formating doesn't allow me to draw a graphic using characters

I will be somewhat curious to see if the PS4 and Xbox One will sell 10m in the first year, or if they suffer a familiar fate as the Wii U due to the delays, questions on specifications, the fact people don't have big piles of cash to throw at black plastic boxes these days, and the fact they're still competing against a generation of the 3 of the most popular consoles ever.

@Triforcepower
The Gamecube sold 22 million in it's lifetime.

I think next year is going to tell a lot about where the Wii U is going, so I'll reserve my thoughts until then.

I'd take a guess it'll be anywhere between the SNES and N64 numbers. Well closer to the NES or even Wii for actual units sold because gaming is much more popular and there's more people to buy consoles of course.

Backwards.

I think the sales may eventually go back down to 2 million

It'll go up by at least one, because I plan on buying one...

DO ITTTTT!

well we know that NA alone had over 300k in October based on safe estimates, so that helps, but it isn't incredible the system needs to sell 2 to 3 million this holiday season

I've got this figured out.

Every bundle they design appeals to, well, someone, right? It's gotta! There's no such thing as a game that literally nobody wants. As evidence, I submit the fact that Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was a commercial success.

So it's simple, really. If they want to sell 100 million consoles, all they must do is design 100 million different bundles. Online communities would be roaring in approval. Sony and Microsoft would applaud and bow out of the competition, liquidating all of their assets. Nintendo would be the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Marketing Genius.

I watched this for like 2 minutes and still can't figure out what kind of game they're playing. Are they... are they using the force?

I don't know for sure... But one thing I do know is I'm glad I have never had the urge to by a Xbox + Kinect to ever find out what they're playing

Ummm up I guess?

Jokes aside, I have a feeling that Wii U might reach at least 5 million by the end of the year, which is cool in my book. If you consider the fact that there's some problems with marketing, tons of competition, lack of money everywhere etc... Then it does kind of makes sense that sales are lower than expected,

They have maybe sold 3,91 million units to stores, but only 460 000 units has been sold to customers total. Thats before the Zelda Wii U edition ofcourse.
And the amount of Wii Us being sold on the used market is not so very small either..
Even here in little Norway, used Wii Us are popping up everyday.

well overall they screwed up the launch but selled 3 millions anyway thanks to the name nintendo.
ps3 and xbox360 didn't have better sales in the first 4-6 months, so i'm not that worried.

the new bundles, sm3dw and maybe wii fit/party/sports will help holiday sales. i guess they won't reach their expectations of 9million units by the end of the fiscal year, but after mk8 and ssb4 the numbers should be acceptable. my guess is more sales than the gamecube by the time when the new zelda will be released.

but i'm kind of biased regarding the success of the wii u. on the one hand i want nintendo to make a profit, they make great games and deserve credit for that. on the other hand they probably won't learn anything (again) if the sales pick up. and then we will get something like glasses for their next console, because they think gimmicks are the way to go...