happydolphin on 05 May 2012
| NightDragon83 said: Well yeah, they pretty much are tied to one another. When hardware sales start to slow, it usually means the particular console is nearing the end of its lifecycle, therefore less people are interested in it, and as a result there is less software released for it. There have been some anomalies though, most notably the PS2 here in the west, and handhelds like the GBA and PSP, where the PS2 still sold pretty well in the first part of this gen despite dwindling software sales and releases, and the GBA and PSP sold plenty of hardware units towards the end of their life despite very low software sales ratios. |
Do you believe HW sales would have kept momentum had Nintendo kept releasing software?
Wii is different from PS2 (the anomaly) because it wasn't keeping on selling despite being the market leader, even if SW was lacking. This could probably be attributed to the new phenomenon of having a strong and thriving competition this gen. On a side note, do you think that had the HD twins been weaker, that Nintendo could have better afforded to reduce support for the Wii, more in line with a PS2 or GBA lifetime trend?
Minor critique: the PSP is doing well in Japan, but it is receiving solid SW support there even until now (7 years later).
