Nintendo has told Venture Beat that Wii U hardware and software increased by nearly 30 percent and nearly 45 percent over the same month last year. It’s not really the concrete numbers we were looking for, but it’s something. To put that in comparison the Xbox One sold more than 140K and was the second best-selling home console. Here’s some more information that came out of today’s NPD numbers for January.
- Smash Wii U – 90K, 1.4 million LTD (digital + retail)
- Smash 3DS – 90K, 2.1 million LTD (digital + retail)
- Pokemon ORAS – 150K, 2.7 million LTD (digital + retail)
- Wii U software is up nearly 45% year over year
- PS4: #1 spot
- Xbox One: Best January ever, so more than 140K
- Wii U: Up nearly 30% year over year => a bit under ~63.7K
Thanks, MasterPikachu6
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Let’s celebrate Ray Man, the Ubisoftian.
Isn’t janrary the biggest lull in game/console purchases?
The holidays are over so expect the after market sales to suck all around, not just Nintendo but every brand in general until Spring-Summer time where sales will kick up again.
Sickr post right hre. Click bait title. WiiU had a great January.
F=ma.
True. The article itself never stated anything about 63.7k units at all… This is a failed click bait attempt XD
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=151820435&postcount=1 The figures have already been deduced here.
I’ve also added that to the post :-)
Yes I checked the link sickr and you’re right! It’s just the article you wrote didn’t state anything about it that’s all! XD Not saying you need to change it or anything so I hope you don’t get the wrong idea! :)
Not a problem! It should really have been added to the article, but I saw it at the last minute. It’s added now.
Yo have a look at this https://club.nintendo.com/rewards.do
What’s so special ’bout it.
Sickr please stop with the over dramatizing lol!
F=ma.
that would be because everyone’s broke after december!
Heck no! Ever heard of Tax season.
ever heard of bills?
Cough! never heard of them.
lol XD it helps to treat them like ghosts, we know they are there but we don’t want to see them!
I just avoid them all together lol
Super Smash Bros for Wii U put up quite impressive numbers.
This is great and all but they really need to do something for the Wii U to help it not decrease in sales all the time. When a game releases on it, the Wii U sales increase but then after a while they die down again until the next game releases. But on Xbox One they never really go down to often because 3rd party games release maybe every month (not sure exactly how often). Too many droughts Nintendo! You guys need to fix this if you wanna even start catching up to the Xbox One or PS4!
Every month? Are you crazy? Both PS4 and XBO have at least a top or mid tier game released every week or two. That’s why they don’t really go down in sales. As as now, Nintendo has a semi yearly released schedule for games (of course I’m exaggerating but they do have long gaps.)
I think sales lacking can be atributed to the lack of new Wii U games being released, but it does have a decent library so far.
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Valve Admiral, Estoczero, Lamatsucubo and Mike Lenduckway say hello
lol am glad the freaks are no longer present. especially valve admiral glados.
i could call her if you want ;)
you seem to be so lonely and bored, i am sure you will be safe on her arms.
have you ever noticed i share pieces of news with sickr?
BTW, hello Obinna (n_n)
fuck you
Be nice.
go way :\
They aren’t Naruto characters though. Lol.
no, they aren’t :)
and i am sure they are not fans of naruto. most of naruto fanboys only think life is grey and spend all the day saying they are bored *cough cough, facebook status: boring christmas, boring sunday, boring whatever cough, cough*
http://i.giphy.com/XvvgA4TVq06vC.gif
I wish that could’ve been me. O.o
Got a mouth full of chicken grease.
Yeah makes me want chicken too…..hungry :P”””””””
No, it’s just inaccurate. The Wii U sold around 100-110k in January.
Where’d you get those numbers from?
His ass -_-
Wow, where can I get the same one he has must be fun! XD
Holy shit there’s like a lot of fucking games you can buy on club Nintendo with coins. Games like Wii fit u and Wii u party
https://club.nintendo.com/rewards.do
We know. Also, we cant. The servers are too full. You have to get in at 3am if you want a stable server.
What? No you don’t. I downloaded Flipnote Studio 3D not too long ago. Lol.
Wait, no. Forget what I said. It was actually around 2 AM when I downloaded. XD
I’ve been trying to get my code for NES remix for half an hour already – Oh hey there It is. Thanks Hollow.
At least you can actually get a game that you don’t already have on there XD I bought all of the ones I was interested in so I could have coins xD
And it sucks without online sharing.
Oh. I can get on anytime. I didn’t think you’ll knew. There’s some many fucking great games. To bad I don’t have enough coins to buy kid Icarus uprising.
You can get on just fine. The hell doesn’t start until after you log in and try to change stuff.
Yeah i see that now. Just tried to do a survey and got kicked right out.
Nintendo is doing pretty pathetic as ever…
Oh, and just in case people are curious, my site is
https://modernreviewingnerd.wordpress.com
and not vladdiepoutine.wordpress.com like my profile picture says it is.
Just wanted to clarify as clicking my picture will lead viewers to a non-existant site even though I already fixed that issue.
This may seem like advertising and spam, but I want others to take notice of my site and I have also encountered the above explained error (though some sites this is not an issue at all like this one).
Honestly, if you want people to be able to find your site by clicking your name, go into WordPress settings and move your site address to what you want. Also, don’t go around advertising (admit it, this is a bit of advertising for you) or doing what seems like advertising, as, in my opinion, it kinda does the opposite on sites like WordPress. (Drives people AWAY) Just a couple tips I guess…
I did that already but it still does not lead to my site. I will contact the admin for help.
Here are Vgchartz numbers for comparison..
Wii U’s sold in the U.S. The week of :
Jan. 3- 51,000
Jan. 10- 26,000
Jan. 17- 23,000
Jan. 24- 20,000
Doesn’t show the week of Jan. 31st. So if you just count three weeks not including the 3rd, it’s at 69k. The final week of January would put it around 90k. Add half of the Jan. 3rd week and that would put Wii U numbers for January at 110k.
The reason the numbers are lower on NPD is because the week of Jan. 3rd is counted towards December, but technically half should be counted for January.
There is a huge difference in numbers here. Either Vgchartz is way off, or NPD is way off. And honestly vgchartz has been pretty damn accurate lately.
If Nintendo said Wii U numbers were 30% higher in January 2015 than in January 2014, that would put January 2014 Wii U sales at around 40k, according to NPD. Something doesn’t add up because the Wii U sold around 80k in January 2014.
Sorry but the numbers just don’t add up. This article is inaccurate.
NPD is official US sales data. VG Chartz is just estimated numbers, which is why we don’t use them.
NPD doesn’t list official numbers on media sites. Anybody saying either of those are the numbers are just pulling stuff out their ass.
Vgchartz is estimated numbers, but it’s estimated off actual collected data. And like I have said, Vgchartz has been suprisingly accurate lately, especially on Wii U sales numbers. I am no defender of Vgchartz, but before Nintendo released official Wii U numbers of 9.2 million, vgchartz had them at 9.1 million. Not bad for an estimate I would say. So it would be kind of silly to just ignore their January numbers when their December numbers were so accurate. In fact Vgchartz has been very accurate estimating Wii U numbers for the last two years.
And they’re still off and intentionally at that too to hype up BS brands while disgracing the other.
And yet you still post nonsense from both sides.
Both are way off and WTF even trusts VGCharts inaccurate BS besides trolls in need of false news as click bait excuses to say something sucks without actual proof?
Off topic: ironfall invasion is out for 3ds and plays nicely on the new 3ds. Can’t wait to try online after. Glad I purchased both! :-)
January is always a low month for gaming in general. But the Wii U should be selling more later on in the year with Splatoon and Zelda (maybe Star Fox).
Don´t forget Xenoblade X which is out in Japan on May and hopefully very soon after this in EU/US. All those unannouched games we may hear on E3?
Let´s hope this will be huge gaming year
Lol splatoon is not going to make as much as a zelda game nor be high numbers.
“Lol splatoon is not going to make as much as a zelda game nor be high numbers.”
Well, if it´s any good lets vote with our money right?
For a fairly poor person who’s VERY fortunate to have the collections I have, that sounds like they’re swimming in money. I could live a full, happy life with just 1/3 of what Nintendo makes in a month. Or even in one week (on a good week).
Geez, everytime, every site, even some Nintendo sites (like this one), it’s doom and gloom, all negative, nothings good. How bout some positive articles huh?
Here: “Wii U Reportedly Sold More Than 63.6K In The United States During January”
There, is that so hard? No one gives a shit here about PS4 and X1 sales and games.
If Smash 3DS didn’t exist Wii U could have had a good portion of those sales.