What if the WiiU does fail? No one seems interested~

[HappySqurriel]

pokoko said:

Conegamer said:
You've been doing a lot of these threads lately Spurge. I'm not particularly impressed.

 And success is a relative thing. The WiiU and 3DS will never sell as well as the Wii and DS, that is almost a given. But it doesn't mean it will sell badly. Do we count the PS3 as a 'failure' for being quite a way off hitting half the numbers of the PS2? I don't think so. If Sony are happy and content with those numbers, then good.

This is something that has been bothering me.  Many, many, many times on these forums I've read that the PS3 was a failure because it lost market share from the PS2.  I've seen that expressed and hammered on dozens of times.  Now, suddenly, there seems to be a lot less of that opinion.  It really kind of bugs me.

Personally, I thought it was silly with the PS3 and now I think it's silly with the Wii U.  Generations and landscapes change.  The conditions are different, what the competition is doing is different.  One generation does not determine what happens in the next.

As far as the Wii U goes, it's not going to fail.  It's launching first and it still has Nintendo games.  At the very least, it's going to do modest numbers.  It has enough backing by Nintendo fans alone to be a mild success.  I just don't see much potential for failure.

Until the last 2 (or so) years the PS3 wasn't just losing some marketshare, it was tracking to have lost the majority of the PS2's marketshare.

If the Wii U sells to 80% or more of the Wii's market it is difficult to say that the lower sales alone indicate the system was a failure, if it starts selling at 60% of the rate there is more of an argument, and if it is selling at less than 50% of the rate I think it is fair to say that it was a blunder.