Michael De Sua:
In an interview with CNET, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime revealed that the Nintendo Wii U sold upwards of 400,000 units during its launch week and that it is pretty much entirely sold out of retail. This must be promising news for Nintendo as they have sold everything they produced for the first week, but how does this compare to the first week sales of other consoles in North America?
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@below ok dude don't be so hurt. I am sorry I said that... WiiU for give me?
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It is sold out in some places and in stock in others. It depends on where you are. I think we can agree on that.
A comparison to other platforms, not really a viable way to gauge its success. I mean we could use another example of the ps3 vs the ps2.
Neither are correct comparatives but regardless of the comparison...the unit has sold and will continue to do so to those that are wanting one.
THAT comment was extremely uncalled for.
It never ceases to amaze me how people here resort to personal attacks when others don't share their opinions.
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this is age on internet everything will be compared to something else deal with it. compare wii-u sales to ps3,xbox360 IMO since there is not ps4 or xbox720 yet.
Reggie wants people to think it's sold out and it's so difficult to get their hands on one so as soon as they see one they'll buy it. People always want something that's desirable, but him saying it's sold out is a lie.
Checking Walmart.com right now, the 32GB model is showing available in all 13 stores in a range of 50 miles from my zip code.
I don't want the PS4 to only be a slight upgrade from the PS3. I want something that is substantially better than the PS3, so if it has to be $600.00 so be it. The people who can't afford it will stick with their PS3/Xbox360/PSVita/Wii U until they can afford it.
I bought a Ps3 day one. 600 dollars for the console was too much.
Unless you want the PS3 to have around the same performance as the Wii U then it is going to be a good few hundred dollars higher.
And btw, there was a $500 PS3 model just like there was a $300 360. And both had high-end GPUs.
The gamcube in the first week sold 500000 unit in the first week but it lifetime sales were very miserable.
The ps3/Xbox 360 sold about 400000 unit in the first week and both going strong over the 70 million mark.
That's the point. And it's not sold out. That's lies. I can go right now to my local Walmart. Their right behind the glass.
Reggie says that wii sold 300k units first week...lies.
It was 600k. So WiiU is 200k behind.
Reggie says blops2 is better looking on the WiiU.
Lies....screen tearing, 8fps is single player, color saturation (subjective), AA.....looks no better than 360; and under performs big time compared to 360.
Look at where the peanut and the piece of corn on this one , check out how it sticks out on this one. I think i see a pixel on that one, and this one is way to brown...
Sure, the graphic in those games were okay but holy shit they were bad!
If you want graphics get a PC...
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Less hate and more mutual understanding.
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Seriously, grow up.
Of course this doesn't mean you should dismiss the highs and lows of the product you own.
WiiU is not going to survive meaningfully vs ps720.
Both those systems only need to open the CPU bottleneck wiiu suffers from and add ram that isn't 7yrs old. That's it. That'll be enough to make 3rd party games unworkable on wiiu.
I understand fanbois - it's ok to be passionate. But try to see the forest through the trees.
There's no climate that'll support $400+ for new consoles. Not in the sales qtys that console makers need to make bank. Wiiu price is too high for what it is. But is about right for ps720.
I don't expect ps720 to be huge difference from consoles today. But they will be performance issues that the wiiu architecture just can't handle.
Btw that saying of seeing the forest through the trees doesn't make sense. No on can see a forest because it doesn't exists.
You are an internet anylist in the purest of forms speaking of things you know nothing of.
main complaint 1 CPU IS RUBBISH, but every dev apart from 1 who has said this are not developing on it. devs that are developing on it, gearbox, Ubisoft, 5thcell say it is powerful, infact Brian burleson (gearbox game producer) said the Wii u is a powerful,powerful machine. why emphisise power twice if its weak. I doubt he'll do that. also michel ancel (rayman creator) said The Wii u is surprisingly powerful. so there's 2 reputable companies working on it. and I will bet money on Ubisoft having a new Xbox or ps dev kit to compare to. also the Wii u has a seprate CPU for os and sound proccessor and gpgpu with aparently loads of edram, if devs throw everything at CPU instead deciding tasks between CPU, gpgpu and sound proccessor they are going to run into trouble.
second complaint. Ram speed is only 12gb/s. ok fine show me a dev complaining about ram speed. infact I have the opposite here is a link on another dev team complimenting ram speed and how it avoids bottlenecking. I know haters are not going to read this but as they don't like being proven wrong by people working on the system.
http://www.vg247.com/2012/1...
I know I probably sound like a Nintendo fanboy but I'm not I'm a multiplatform gamer and it annoys me that people only listen to negitives and neglect everything else.
Huh?
Sony have already stated 70million sales of PS3.
As for WII U, 40million max.
Worldwide: 32.9 million - N64
Worldwide: 21.74 million - GAMECUBE
Worldwide 49.10 million - SNES.
Wii was a fluke, because of the control scheme and probably got some new customers for Nintendo.
SNES was to long ago for anyone to care about.
N64 + new sales from wii customers and i'm guessing 40million max for wii u.
As for the PS3 being in third place, that depends on your point of view.
1: 1 year later to launch (360 already had 10m sold by the time the PS3 launched)
2: $200 higher initial cost
3: Supposedly no good games for first couple years
4: over 30% fail rate for 360 first couple years, same people buying new consoles as replacement. Factors into total sales.
And yet the PS3 is still only 3m behind at a 70m total sales mark.
All factors considered, time for time the PS3 has completely destroyed the 360.
P.S. I don't dislike Nintendo nor am i a Sony fanboy, The SNES is actually still my all time favorite console and i own every video game system since the NES, including a PS3, 360, Wii, and a $2k custom PC. If anything im a PC fanboy. Just making note of the contributing factors that people seem to be forgetting.
You children really need lessons in critical thinking. Get your heads out of your anus and use your brain. I bet you voted Obama.
It's like comparing Kobe to MJ yep Kobe is no MJ but he'll still be in the hall of fame at the end of his career.
And I think they could of made the miis a bit better.
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