NPD January: Xbox 360 moves 281,00 units – report puts Wii U sales at 57,000

I agree with OG, i think it needs a price cut, the economy is not what once was, therefore accesible prices will spice sales for this type of devices, including vita and the future ps4 and 720, price will be a big issue.

Having said that i think the Wii was better potisioned in that regard, and it sold that well because it had a good price of entry and it didnt require a new HDtv set, that combination of factors incide a lot, especially compare with the other two, that cost a lot more and did require a new HD tv set, of course the motion control and the blue ocean strategy did had a lot to do as well, but i think this also was an important factor.

And this is something the WiiU lacks and attractive price point, i alwyas had said that the vita memory cards were overpriced if you add the vita price, and that it is a factor for not selling that good, and i believe nintendo made the same mistake not adding the pro controller for free with the console, especially if you are aiming at the hardcore crowd that needs to buy this controller separetally, which increase a lot the price of the console, also the lack of great nintendo IPS.

I think with games and a bundle of sorts that address this, it will do fine, like the 3ds and the vita if they go with the price cut of the memory cards and the vita as well.

p.s i mentioned the memory cards because in some regions the free bundles are not available.

First things first, only people with limited knowledge and rose tinted glasses feel launches of wiiu , ps3 and 360 can be compared.
Here is a fact, all are almost equal at this point of launch, but its really worse for wiiu as both 360 and ps3 had severe disadvantages at launch, namely lack of supply and high cost respectively.
WiiU doesn’t have ANY of those problems, still its lagging.
Price cut is really necessary, without that wiiu will be in a bucketload of trouble.
Also, if people really next 212121th copy of “insert game here” will save wiiu, you are sadly mistaken. They didn’t save gamecube, even vita will only be saved after a price cut.
Wiiu has a historically weak launch, unless ninty pulls another price cut like 3ds , things look really bad.

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/186741/At_57K_sold_Wii_Us_January_performance_is_historically_abysmal.php#.UR-tUvIyUVQ

52 Dragon Nintendo is lossing money with the WiiU they are only recouping those losses somehow with selling one game with each sold console, they did stated this, and i think nitendo IPS will help somehow of course this combined with a price cut, i think is a combination of the two, and also giving free the pro controller with each new boxed console.

@Manu,
I am all but sure that games don’t save a system. Both gamecube and dreamcast had great games. So why weren’t they best-sellers?
And ok, I get your point, but I never stated otherwise. Ninty may have been selling it at a loss, but still it isn’t selling. That gamepad was a big (and costly) gamble and it doesnt seem to be paying off.

@54

“I am all but sure that games don’t save a system. ”

Bologney. That is the only reason why people get a system. WiiU only had ports of games that were release 6 months to a year prior and 2 exclusive.

Gamecube had barely any 3rd party support and people were impressed with PS2′s variety of titles and 3rd party support.

Xbox is a good example of games selling a system. Halo was enough of a reason for people to pick up that system.

The topic i believe will make an interesting investigation, i think there are a lot of reasons a sum of its parts, but one can agree that games can make a company success in this business, lets see the new arrivals, sony and microsoft, sony with the ps1 did had a lot of the best games and series coming from nintendo becuase of the cartridge issue, their high cost licensing etc, that made games like final fantasy, metal gear, resident evil , etc only appear on sony, certanly the CD ROM based format helped too, because it was a cool thing at that time and a better format, but without those games or if those games would also come on nintendo it wouldnt had the succees it had IMHO, again with microsoft without halo it wouldnt had the moderate success it did had, i think games are and important factor.

Although iam a firm believer of the sume of its parts like games, price, services, extra added features, consumer treatment, etc, is a combination of all this, but the two more important ones are price and games IMHO.

The dreamcast is a weird example because it was for other reasons, mistakes done by SEGA which put them in a bad shape economically speaking and also the big buzz and success of the PS2, if nintendo wasnt dominant on the handheld front on that time, and had made some mistakes economically speaking, would had share the same fate, i think it was because in the end ps2 had the better games, and a lot of them something the dreamcast couldnt compete, although having a decent list of games, but it was not comparable with the ps2,though, high quantity and high quality of games, something the dreamcast, gamecube and xbox lacked, they only had quality games, but not in the same amount IMHO.

@Manu,
We will see then

Also, I really feel some people are getting desperate now. Throwing Sony in a ninty article is just what I expect from people like him.
Of course he missed the ninty sales articles though.
Amazingly, ninty has the privilege of being the closest walled market in existence, and he missed that too.
Oh, and an extract from the mentioned article-
“The firm has been more open than its rivals up until now”
Really, he even selected particular lines that suits his desires. No wonder this line didn’t featured in the big quotes from the article.

@54 – See, Dragon, here’s where I’m going to completely disagree with you. Software sells hardware. Otherwise, why did the PS3 only start seeing its fortunes increase when Metal Gear Solid 4 was released in the States and Tales of Vesperia in Japan? I bought a PS3, not because I liked Sony as a company, but because I wanted to be able to continue to play God of War, Twisted Metal, and Metal Gear. The people who already bought their Wii U’s did so because of the promise of first party Nintendo games.

Do I think that those games are going to save the Wii U? No, because I think most people who want to play Mario and Zelda already shelled out for the system. But if those games weren’t eventually coming, I can’t see how any Wii U’s would have been sold, at all.

In fact, if games didn’t sell hardware, Microsoft would have never engaged in their early 360 strategy of forcing previous Playstation-exclusives to become multiplatform.