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Game sales to dip 20% in January on current-gen weakness - Wedbush

Wedbush is expecting hardware sales of 350,000 Xbox One units and 375,000 PS4 units in their third month of release, with the Wii U bringing up the rear at just 60,000 units (although that would still represent a five percent increase year-over-year).

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NYC_Gamer3728d ago

" Wii U bringing up the rear at just 60,000 units"

I really hope those low numbers aren't legit for the sake of Nintendo

TheEnigma3133728d ago

They are legit unfortunately.

xHeavYx3728d ago

Since "next-gen" consoles are already here, shouldn't we call those "current gen"? Shouldn't the PS3 and 360 be previous gen?

gaffyh3728d ago

@xHeavyx - This is why you should go buy gen numbers, 7th Gen = PS3, 360, 8th Gen = PS4, XB1
7.5 Gen = Wii U.

:p, sorry just had to.

VENOMACR12273728d ago

If Nintendo would go back to making an actual gaming machine, not Wii U or having to throw your hands around like your having a seizure, I think they would do well. N64, Gamecube, all did well and I enjoyed a lot of their games. But walk into GameStop, look at the used Wii games, and proceed to laugh. Get back to Mario, Zelda, DK, Metroid, all the originals.

I just don't think next gen has a place for Nintendo right now. It's MS and Sony territory right now (not counting handhelds).

WrAiTh Sp3cTr33728d ago

Nintendo will be alright they have 85 billion dollars to work with.

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ThePope3728d ago

Their struggling pretty hard. This reminds me of the Sega Saturn, when the PS1 launched.

Eonjay3728d ago

I honestly want to know if people think Donkey Kong is going to change this.

Loadedklip3728d ago

Since DK is 2D ... I doubt it will have that "MUST HAVE" feel to it for a lot of gamers. It's more of a game you get once you already have the system ... not a game you get a system for.

mydyingparadiselost3728d ago

Donkey Kong will not change this, nor will any other single game save for MAYBE SSB or Mario Kart. But Donkey Kong, Bayo, X, the previously mentioned games, some hopefully on the horizon Direct announcements and some decent indie support all together will hopefully at least help.

N4g_null3728d ago

I think it is the collection of games that will do it.

GordonKnight3727d ago

I don't think it's a system seller, but a must if you're a Wii U onwer.

Mario Kart 8 & Smash Bros are the console seller. I think if they opened up the VC library with N64 & GC games that would help a lot.

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ozstar3728d ago

"Current Gen Weakness"

Not "Wii U weakness".

Just to clarify that your quote is out of context crap as per usual.

Btw, if the PS4 and XBone were really successful, shouldn't they have taken up the slack from the drop in last gen console sales since Jan. 2013?

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Batnut003728d ago

Well January has been a bit of a slow month. Waiting to see how mid-feb to March look.

OrangePowerz3728d ago (Edited 3728d ago )

So Pachter makes his "predictions" based on NPD numbers he already got. Not hard to predict something if you have already a piece of paper that states the numbers.

January was very week with basically Tomb Raider being the only big release.

PS4 is supply constrained, but not the other next gen console.

Anon19743728d ago (Edited 3728d ago )

Whenever I read "Wedbush" now I instantly think "What's Pacther spouting off about this time?"

Seriously, that joker is doing nothing for their brand. I'm sure they have fine investment analysts working there but there's no doubt in my mind that their reputation has to have suffered overall within the investment community with Pacther's seemingly endless rantings. At some point you have to weigh the publicity they receive from this guy's babbling versus the damage it does to the reputation of the competent analysts you have working for you that do their jobs without making hit mongering statements meant to stir up controversy.

Loadedklip3728d ago

Disagree ... you are taking about Wedbush ... so clearly Pachter got them in your mind.

Anon19743728d ago

Sure there's some brand recognition there, but not in a good context. It's like saying "That Toyota commercial made you think of that terrible Toyota you once owned." The fact that the mere mention of "Wedbush" makes me think of an arrogant, out of touch attention monger isn't a good thing for the company, in my opinion. I'm retired from the brokerage industry now..but if I was still managing portfolios for my clients, the fact that I think of Pacther whenever a Wedbush-Morgan analyst report were to hit my desk isn't a good thing for the company or the value I would place on their research reports based on my negative opinion of that windbag.

Eonjay3728d ago

"This Thursday, The NPD Group will release its January 2014 video games sales report, which Wedbush Securities anticipates will reveal..."

So no they don't have it yet. They are predicting this Thursdays numbers. But this is good. I want to see just how accurate their predictions are.

OrangePowerz3728d ago

NPD will officially release the numbers on Thursday or to be more precise they will say who got first, second and third place since ypu have to pay now a fortune to get the actual numbers. I doubt a financial analyst company gets them on the same day they release them in general.

WeAreLegion3728d ago

I don't think those numbers are correct. The Wii U sold over 40,000 in one week and I doubt the numbers for the other two are that low, either.

kingdip903728d ago

Wait until people in the US start getting their tax refunds... hardware sales will jump up considerably

Eldyraen3728d ago

I've known a lot of people that do this.

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mkis0071h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows901h ago(Edited 1h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

Leeroyw1h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno1h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak43m ago(Edited 35m ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy854m ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week