archbrix said:
Actually you are indeed comparing the past glory of a direct successor... Your problem, of course, is that you are basing the state of the WiiU by only one single metric: how it is doing compared to its predecessor. While that's certainly one thing to consider, you are conveniently ignoring other factors such as the fact that it's $50 to $100 dollars more expensive, launched in a worse economy, is tracking above the 360 and PS3 launches, and that it will finish the year not too far behind the Wii itself, which frankly, was an anomoly of success. As HappyS pointed out earlier, the Vita is not being judged so much because it's tracking behind the PSP, but because it's doing badly in any context. And the 360 certainly did better than its predecessor in Japan but was still a failure in that region. Many people believe that WiiU won't sell as much as the Wii did, same way the 3DS won't sell as much as its predecessor. That may show decline from the previous gen, but it's not the only way to gauge success. By that flawed rationale, Sony will never have another successful console since they will never outsell the PS2. |
Yup, pretty much this ^^
