How can Nintendo compete with the big dawgs?

[Aielyn]

Kane1389 said:

Aielyn said:
Sales of Wii U have increased by nearly 75% in the last two weeks. And it's only going to continue to grow through Christmas, as Nintendo consoles always do. And even right now, the Wii U sold roughly as much as the Xbox 360, and technically outsold the PS4. In other words, it's selling fine.

Jesus Christ, dat denial

I'll have to say it to you, too, I suppose. Words have meanings. "Fine" doesn't mean "great", it means "fine", "passable", "satisfactory", "sufficiently", "within reason", etc. The phrase "it's selling fine" doesn't mean "it's selling stellarly" or "it's selling exceedingly well", it means "sales are nothing to sneeze at, nowadays". There's no denying that sales in general are depressed relative to this point in the previous generation, in all respects (game sales on current and previous-gen systems, etc). Note that this isn't referring to launch sales, which are always subject to supply, hype, etc. When you factor this in, you see that the Wii U is right where you'd expect, really.

What I find funny is that the same people who shout "denial" at anyone being satisfied with Wii U sales numbers now are the same people (or similar in mentality) to the people who constantly dismissed the Wii's sales numbers as irrelevant, and constantly tried to mark it as "teh cazualz" in order to feel better about their own system - you know, REAL denial behaviour, not just satisfaction with the situation.