Wii U February NPD Deadpool - Place your bets, win a Steam game!

[maxy]

and we all just rest assured that the actual number is somewhere between 51,501 and 53,999.

That is like posting exact number.

[Steve Youngblood]

and we all just rest assured that the actual number is somewhere between 51,501 and 53,999.

That is like posting exact number.

Or, the winner gets a PM and this thread is no fun because there's no gloating.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I was just gonna wait for Oscar to leak I guess

[Cerveza mas fina]

Im pretty sure we will know SOMEHOW

There is always vgchartz  :manny

[Momo]

If we're going to use made up numbers I should be the one to supply them 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

"The Wii U sold an estimated 55,000 units in January."

Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/14/february-npd-dead-space-3-takes-top-spot-crysis-3-cant-outpace-call-of-duty/#cLZHAtRXEtOwgOCr.99

Do we call it?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

"The Wii U sold an estimated 55,000 units in January."

Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/14/february-npd-dead-space-3-takes-top-spot-crysis-3-cant-outpace-call-of-duty/#cLZHAtRXEtOwgOCr.99

Do we call it?

Thought this was about the Feb number, not last month's number, Howard.

My reading comprehension sucks, I blame a cross-country move in the next 72 hours? Haha.

"New platforms like the Wii U and PS Vita demonstrated some momentum from the typical January hardware lull with increases of over 40 percent and 30 percent, respectively.”

"80k" gives Shaka the victory, but 40% up on 55k is 77,000, which is closer to Joe. We should wait for a more exact number.

[pilonv1]

hot dog we have a wiener

[Shaka Khan]

Jan or Feb?

The estimated number at GAF (from calculations) is 64k atm. 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

THE HUNT GOES ON

[Huff]

Pilonv at 64k but lots at people close to him

[Shaka Khan]

But either way nothing makes me happier than losing to my boi Joe.

Edit: Except for Borys losing this bet.  :damn

[Human Snorenado]

I wish it had been lower 

for Borys losing though

edit: now I'll get to sit through ninthings trying to spin ~64k sales as a positive

"it's up from last month, AND there were only 4 weeks in feb you know!"

[FoneBone]

40% per week rise for wiiu is impressive considering it had no new games in feb.

Many gaffers were predicting 20 -40k for WiiU , what are they to say now ?

Why do we have to guess and estimate WiiU , ps3 and vita numbers?

What's the point of npd if there are missing numbers ?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

ban this heathen

[Human Snorenado]

40% per week rise for wiiu is impressive considering it had no new games in feb.

Many gaffers were predicting 20 -40k for WiiU , what are they to say now ?

Why do we have to guess and estimate WiiU , ps3 and vita numbers?

What's the point of npd if there are missing numbers ?

This aggression will not stand

[Steve Youngblood]

40% per week rise for wiiu is impressive considering it had no new games in feb.

Many gaffers were predicting 20 -40k for WiiU , what are they to say now ?

Why do we have to guess and estimate WiiU , ps3 and vita numbers?

What's the point of npd if there are missing numbers ?

This aggression will not stand

It's a GAF repost.  These things are always GAF reposts.

[Huff]

to be fair, fonebone sucks. so hard to tell

[FoneBone]

to be fair, fonebone sucks. so hard to tell

Aw, did I hurt your feelings somewhere?

[Joe Molotov]

If there's so no official numbers by tonight, Borys has to buy everyone a game.

[Flannel Boy]

66,666 still in play.  :babylawd

[Shaka Khan]

40% per week rise for wiiu is impressive considering it had no new games in feb.

Many gaffers were predicting 20 -40k for WiiU , what are they to say now ?

Why do we have to guess and estimate WiiU , ps3 and vita numbers?

What's the point of npd if there are missing numbers ?

This is the not the NPD thread.

[maxy]

zomg dude says 64k is a good number

also MS is counting WiiU as current gen

[Steve Contra]

[Steve Youngblood]

Wrong thread.

[Purple Filth]

from creamsugar on GAF

Wii U ~ 66k

[maxy]

Flannel Boy               66,666               
ferrarimanf355               65,000   

       

hmm     

[Steve Contra]

Did the Canadian's joke answer win?

And pilonv1 definitely got the gag prize.

[Shaka Khan]

Fuck Canada

[Joe Molotov]

Fake.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

So Borys buys Flannel Boy the game of his choice? VICTORY

[Great Rumbler]

lol borys :youngsabu

[Shaka Khan]

Malek finally wins at something. 

[pilonv1]

Did the Canadian's joke answer win?

And pilonv1 definitely got the gag prize.

My life is a gag prize, I don't need another

[Shaka Khan]

Shaka

You're forking $30 breh, that's 30% the price of a PSP. Now cry.

[Flannel Boy]

Did the Canadian's joke answer win?

Joke answer for a joke console.

Malek finally wins at something. 

 

From Pollack to Pollack. With love
Name your game Malek/ gimme your Steam ID (PM if you want).

It's only fitting: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (won't be able to play until the end of April though).
malek4980

[Van Cruncheon]

man, if i had lost, i was gonna celebrate by doubling the prize amount

[DCharlieJP]

Guys, I think the big take away from this is just how much trouble MS and Sony are in if the successor to Wii is doing this badly. As panic Nintendo are the best Nintendo and they'll cut the price of the WiiU and have several AAA sure fire hits - plus it's cheaper to develop for so - given all these facts it seems pretty obvious that the WiiU is going to have a similar footprint to that of the Wii or Ds and the X720/Ps4 will almost certainly be "Vita'ed"

In short - these sales figures are yet more bad news for Ms and Sony and an obvious sign of global domination to come for Nintendo

[Eel O'Brian]

[ferrarimanf355]

66,666 still in play.  :babylawd

I still say if it's 66K then we should both be declared winners.

[D3RANG3D]

Guys, I think the big take away from this is just how much trouble MS and Sony are in if the successor to Wii is doing this badly. As panic Nintendo are the best Nintendo and they'll cut the price of the WiiU and have several AAA sure fire hits - plus it's cheaper to develop for so - given all these facts it seems pretty obvious that the WiiU is going to have a similar footprint to that of the Wii or Ds and the X720/Ps4 will almost certainly be "Vita'ed"

In short - these sales figures are yet more bad news for Ms and Sony and an obvious sign of global domination to come for Nintendo

 

[ferrarimanf355]

66,666 still in play.  :babylawd

I still say if it's 66K then we should both be declared winners.

It's not 66k exactly, of course.  Flannel Boy is closer.

Eh. I was only suggesting that to pile on Borys anyways. I was amazed I was close anyways.

[Flannel Boy]

66,666 still in play.  :babylawd

I still say if it's 66K then we should both be declared winners.

Look, it is stretching it just declaring one of us a winner.

[Shaka Khan]

As if anyone intended to pay ferrariman anything in the first place.

Guys, I think the big take away from this is just how much trouble MS and Sony are in if the successor to Wii is doing this badly. As panic Nintendo are the best Nintendo and they'll cut the price of the WiiU and have several AAA sure fire hits - plus it's cheaper to develop for so - given all these facts it seems pretty obvious that the WiiU is going to have a similar footprint to that of the Wii or Ds and the X720/Ps4 will almost certainly be "Vita'ed"

In short - these sales figures are yet more bad news for Ms and Sony and an obvious sign of global domination to come for Nintendo

Please let it be a real quote.

[ferrarimanf355]

As if anyone intended to pay ferrariman anything in the first place.

I didn't expect to win anyways. 

[Eel O'Brian]

at this point, any group thinking about making a game for the wii u has to ask "are we gonna be okay with selling, like, two thousand copies? at most?"

[Shaka Khan]

I didn't expect to win anyways. 

Nah, I'm just kidding around, being a sore loser and all.

[Shaka Khan]

i mean, even miyamoto's got to be considering porting pikmin 3 to vita or something

GAF this.

[Eel O'Brian]

at this point, i'm quite confident there is no group thinking about making a game for the wii u.

i'd bet there are still some manchildren indie devs out there wearing their square-rimmed nostalgia glasses and just biting their nails down to the quick agonizing over whether they'd be letting nintendo down if they skipped wii u

i'd like to think so, at least

i get so few opportunities to laugh these days

[ferrarimanf355]

I didn't expect to win anyways. 

Nah, I'm just kidding around, being a sore loser and all.

It's not like I was going to tear myself away from Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for another game, anyways. Just wanted to see someone else get humiliated.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Reggie should be touching up his resume right about now.

[tiesto]

Did the Canadian's joke answer win?

Joke answer for a joke console.

Malek finally wins at something. 

 

From Pollack to Pollack. With love
Name your game Malek/ gimme your Steam ID (PM if you want).

It's only fitting: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (won't be able to play until the end of April though).
malek4980

What Polack doesn't have that game already??

[cool breeze]

rayman would've bumped it up to a cool 70k

[Joe Molotov]

How many were taken back?

[Shaka Khan]

How many were taken back?

I heard around 18k scalpers took their Wii U's back last month. Hmmm.

[Momo]

Is that like the hung chad vote recount thing?

[MCD]

Poor WiiU, Nintendo made so many mistakes with horrible naming, no advertising, failing to launch games when they stopped making Wii games 2 years ago, and underpowered hardware due to the Japanese-centric power requirement of 40 watts. The only way the WiiU could have succeeded with 3rd parties was to make it powerful enough to have a vastly superior port over the 360/PS3 versions - otherwise why would anyone buy a 3rd party game on the WiiU, which means game developers don't even bother. Just imagine if Nintendo allowed the system to be 80 watts, enabling a much higher clocked CPU (the CPU was never going to be a true powerhouse due to wanting 100% Wii compatibility), a much more powerful AMD GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 memory, etc. Aside from multiplayer centric titles, gamers would have flocked to WiiU 3rd party titles if the WiiU ports were vastly superior in picture IQ and FPS.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Fucking rayman cheated me out of a game!

[maxy]

Poor WiiU, Nintendo made so many mistakes with horrible naming, no advertising, failing to launch games when they stopped making Wii games 2 years ago, and underpowered hardware due to the Japanese-centric power requirement of 40 watts. The only way the WiiU could have succeeded with 3rd parties was to make it powerful enough to have a vastly superior port over the 360/PS3 versions - otherwise why would anyone buy a 3rd party game on the WiiU, which means game developers don't even bother. Just imagine if Nintendo allowed the system to be 80 watts, enabling a much higher clocked CPU (the CPU was never going to be a true powerhouse due to wanting 100% Wii compatibility), a much more powerful AMD GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 memory, etc. Aside from multiplayer centric titles, gamers would have flocked to WiiU 3rd party titles if the WiiU ports were vastly superior in picture IQ and FPS.

[demi]

As if anyone intended to pay ferrariman anything in the first place.

Buy Ferrariman Bejeweled just like his sister