| Stever89 said: Eh no. Everyone thinking Sony would dominate out the gate and that Nintendo would have been way in the back (20 million by 2012 was the estimated install base for the Wii even until early 2006) is what really cost 3rd parties on the Wii. That's less than 3 million a year - ie: not worth developing for at all. |
I guess my point was did everyone get the impression it was going to fail in part because Nintendo refused to talk about it. Were those estimated install bases affected by Nintendo's lack of hype?
MS had numbers only slightly better than Nintendo, but the most common prediction for gen 7 was that MS was going to give Sony a very long hard battle, while Nintendo faded into the background. I am just wondering if Nintendo's inaction (in generating hype) may have affected those predictions (and in turn 3rd party support).
