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[Malvingt2]

Zelda did go for the 8 days tracking. Mario is the one lacking.

 

[Striek]

So, 2DS was included then.
Eeeeeeeeh, it's a good number, but it should have sold 1 million this month.
At least, December has Pokémon 2DS bundles, so it's certainly going to be a good December.

I don't see how its a good number if it should have sold over 1 million

The sales for Pokemon in its second month were really low too, way below the norm for the franchise, so IDK how much the bundle will help.

 

[Tashi]

Imagined more Zelda for the install base the 3DS has now but then again it was only 9 days.

 

[Nibiru]

Mario 3d World is truly an amazing game. When looking at that top Ten list I realize that sales and whats popular is just not in line at all with the kind of games I like.

 

[DarkFlow]

I might pick up a Vita when I get my PS4 in Feb/March. I want it mainly for remote play, could not give a shit about the Vita games.

 

[RibbedHero]

I feel super bummed about the WIi U. Congratulations to both Sony and Microsoft, though not seeing at least one first party game on the top ten list is disappointing.

Why? Shouldn't we be encouraging platform neutrality?

 

[javac]

Sorry, I didn't do my part since I only bought X today.

At least you got the correct version

Spoiler

although the real best version is both ya casual!

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Goodnight sweet prince.

 

[Pennywise]

that's not true

someone needs to say the Vita numbers

Vita
post if youre okay
pls

Spoiler

Poor Tearaway. Vita is well and truly fucked.

Fuck this.
I'm gonna get Tearaway immediately.

 

[Sneds]

Going back to the consensus that Nintendo bundled the wrong damn game. Who bundles TWO mario games when you are trying to sell a Mario game?

They could have bundled a Ferrari with it and it wouldn't have made a difference.

But poor Nintendo.

 

[Riki]

Kill the wiiu Nintendo.

there's nothing to gain by riding this turd for a couple more years just to say it wasn't killed too soon.

This would only work (and even then it would be a bad idea) if they were giving up on consoles all together.

 

[BY2K]

Live Reaction to NPD thread on NeoGAF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUQl5-6_Uw

Dead.

 

[gcubed]

This console war sucks. PS4 is the hotter ticket but XB1 is doing great as well. How am I supposed to overreact to this?

2nd place is the first loser yeaaaaaawwwwww


thats the best i got

 

[Majestad]

405k for Zelda in like 11 days. Not bad at all!

 

[Foshy]

that's not true
[/spoiler]

It's right here in the OP. http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=503054

 

[Bruno MB]

Got Sunshine numbers?

[GCN] Super Mario Sunshine (Nintendo) {August 26, 2002} - 350,000

 

[Aquamarine]

Got Sunshine numbers?

It was originally reported as 350,768 units sold-through in August 2002.

 

[legend166]

3DS numbers aren't DS numbers, but it's clear they've managed to establish a healthy, profitable handheld market, which is very tough in today's world (just ask Sony!)


Wii U numbers are terrrrrible though. Really bad. If I were Nintendo, I'd be looking to support the Wii U through Christmas 2014, then look to launch a new console in November 2015. Offer those who bought the Wii U some sort of ambassador thing with the new console (like access to 50 VC games of their choice) or something.

There's just no way the Wii U turns it around to do even GameCube numbers.

 

[Manmademan]

.

Fantastic.

 

[Ty4on]

It's doing wonders for the Wii U.

Yeah! Sales of the Vita would like double in the US

Spoiler

I'm not too familiar with Vita/WiiU sales ratio in the US.

 

[Celine]

A Link between Worlds = 405.000 (digital + physical + bundle)
Pokemon X / Y = 225.000 (digital + physical)

3DS 770.000 (10.500.000 LTD)
Wii U ~222.000

Super Mario 3D World = 215.000 (digital + physical)

Bad numbers for Nintendo.

 

[Jigorath]

GTAV sold extremely well I believe. Record breaking, even.

The Last of Us sold pretty well too.

 

[Htown]

Much as I love Nintendo, they deserve everything they're getting.

 

[Azure J]

First month sales:

[WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) {November 12, 2007} - 1,120,000
[WIU] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) {November 22, 2013} - 215,000

This is by far the most saddening thing I've seen gaming wise this season.

Pack it the fuck up Nintendo, it's dead.

 

[VanWinkle]

The Mario and Wii U numbers...HOLY CRAP... Man that is depressing.

 

[UNCMark]

I'm thinking that maybe the 3DS/2DS numbers are more troubling to Nintendo than Wii U. DS used to do a million a month like it was nothing.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

Fellow gaffers,
This is what is happening with regards to MS saying XBO was the fastest selling console in november: If you average 900k across 9 days (from the 22th of nov until the end of nov), you'll get an average of 100k per day, right? In comparison, averaging the amount of PS4 sold in november (lets say it was 1.2 M) requires more days because it was released earlier. So from the 15th of november until the end = 15 days. 1,200,000 / 15 = 800k.
Hope it helps

I think that's common sense, but where it gets really tricky is if, say, one console sold 800k-1 million in a single day, and then had no more units for the rest of the month. That would mean for each day till the end of the month that it's out of stock, it would be notching a donut lol. With this scenario, the other console is only the fastest selling in the month on the technicality that it actually had units for sale, whereas the other one was out of stock.

So then both Microsoft and Sony can then claim to have had the fastest selling console for/in the month of November, and both technically be telling the truth lol. PR

 

[Ashodin]

Yep Nintendo needs to pull out the price drop, secure more third parties, and stop sitting on the warchest. It's time to use the money.

 

[theprodigy]

If you thought Microsoft's spin was good, Nintendo is like Crash fuckin' Bandicoot.

not really, Microsoft's was much more bizarre

also guys, that's 225k EACH for X AND Y...?

 

[Meier]

The Wii U figure is beyond sad.

 

[Nirolak]

First month sales:

[WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) {November 12, 2007} - 1,120,000
[WIU] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) {November 22, 2013} - 215,000

425K.

If Wii U really did sell somewhere around 220,000, that's utterly abysmal. Horrid, horrid numbers. GameCube managed twice that.

Yep.

245K (Dreamcast, November 1999)
192K (Dreamcast, November 2000)
259K (Dreamcast, November 2001)

 

[TetraGenesis]

The Nintendo brand is finally over. Maybe next decade!

It's over, period. Nintendo lost the casuals, and that's the end of their Wii U hopes and dreams.

It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for Wii U. Nintendo has nothing left, nothing they have can fix the hole now created. There is no reason left for anyone, hardcore or casual, to substantially invest in a Wii U. Except if they want to play Bayonetta 2. Which will also come to PS4 at some point.

Microsoft and Sony took the last reason away that anyone would NEED to own a WiiU over a PS4 or Xbox one(except Miiverse LOL GAMING), and the cavalcade of tiny titles that will be nice but won't stir up any sales is not going to salvage the underpowered non-entity that was Wii U.



There may be some hardcore gamers that stick around. Some did it for PS3 too. But the last bell tolled. Maybe next decade.

The age of Nintendo is done.

Well done.

 

[Plinko]

So kill themselves faster?

Good idea

They still make profit on 3DS, they won't be losing money on Wii U, and a system more powerful than PS4 will give them at least 3 years on the market alone as the most powerful console.

If it's a visible difference and the right games are there at launch, it will have been far enough away from the PS4/XB1 launch that the core will be starving for a new system to buy.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Mario 3d World is truly an amazing game. When looking at that top Ten list I realize that sales and whats popular is just not in line at all with the kind of games I like.

The top ten has been like that forever, but the sales are still abysmal compared to other Mario games.

 

[SykoTech]

First month sales:

[WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) {November 12, 2007} - 1,120,000
[WIU] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) {November 22, 2013} - 215,000

Holy...

 

[Mrbob]

that's not true

someone needs to say the Vita numbers

Vita
post if youre okay
pls

Spoiler

Poor Tearaway. Vita is well and truly fucked.

The only way to "save" Vita at this rate is to do a super cheap PS4 hardware bundle where the up charge is only 100 dollars. This may not even work, either.

Crazy to see Sony post record numbers with PS4 and Vita. Record best in PS4 and record worst in Vita. Same thing to a degree with Nintendo. 3DS keeps on trucking while no one cares about the WiiU.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

First month sales:

[WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) {November 12, 2007} - 1,120,000
[WIU] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) {November 22, 2013} - 215,000

Lol, what a flop.
Wii U not doing its software any justice.

 

[Sandfox]

Nintendo needs to kill this machine and move all games past Mario Kart 8 on to a console more powerful than PS4 and released in 2015/2016.

Have what were supposed to be Wii U Smash Bros and Zelda be launch titles for the new system.

Glad to see Zelda 3DS sell so much, though. What a fantastic game.

It would probably be better for them to release games planned for a 2014 release at least while they work on another console.

 

[Majmun]

9 million

Nice try , Iwata.

 

[Captain Smoker]

Combining it with Famitsu numbers:


Pokemon X / Y (USA + Japan) = 5.800.000

A Link Between Worlds (USA) = 405.000

Super Mario 3D World (USA + Japan) = 400.000

 

[Yado]

Nintendo needs to kill this machine and move all games past Mario Kart 8 on to a console more powerful than PS4 and released in 2015/2016.

Have what were supposed to be Wii U Smash Bros and Zelda be launch titles for the new system.

Glad to see Zelda 3DS sell so much, though. What a fantastic game.

Their problems are way bigger than just releasing a more powerful system.

 

[bananas]

If they are only even with Sony in NA then they will be well behind in worldwide sales.

I just saying, this doesn't look to be a PS2 over Xbox lead. Microsoft is still selling really well, and making a profit on each unit.

They're not pulling a Nintendo here, folks.

 

[DragonKnight]

Its safe to say it is the gamecube part duex. On the bright side it will have great games and thats all that matters to the people who own one. Nintendo made their bed and now they must sleep in it. Ill enjoy mine for the twenty or so must haves it will accumulate.

Honestly, nintendo has been digging this whole since the 64 and the wii was just a fluke.

 

[Snaku]

Comparison data. We are in Dreamcast territory.

Holy shit.

 

[Nightstick11]

Wat? You have that backwards. Casual & kiddie gaming (Wii, WiiU, handhelds, etc.) died. Core gaming dominates.

Uh, what? CoD is as casual as you can get. It's same tier as Angry Birds.

 

[Manmademan]

I'm thinking that maybe the 3DS/2DS numbers are more troubling to Nintendo than Wii U. DS used to do a million a month like it was nothing.

2DS got dropped to $99 this month also. make no mistake, that 3DS number is NOT GOOD.

where do you go from here? pokemon is already out. $99 is rock bottom.

 

[javac]

3D World is SOO GOOD. 3D World sales are SOO BAD. sad.

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

Pack it up WiiU. You're dead.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Live Reaction to NPD thread on NeoGAF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUQl5-6_Uw

omg

 

[SenjutsuSage]

Wow, at those Mario numbers. I feel pretty bad for Nintendo. I've heard a lot of great things about the game, so hopefully sales improve.