| ROBOTECHHEAVEN said: its really funny how every damn thread that has wii u sales everyone is saying the sales are bad or its worrying. how in the hell is the overall worldwide sales for the wii u bad when its beating the 360 and ps3 through there launches. it seems alot of ppl since the wii u launch are loving hating on the system and nintendo. but in the long run the system will sell over 65 million with ease and will be just fine. it always amazes me of the loyalty so many ppl have for the big 3. i am a gamer,i own and love all 3 systems and will continue to do that with the new systems from ms and sony. we as gamers should just enjoy the systems we own and be respectful . i know that isnt going to happen, but one can dream. |
Personally I don't think WiiU's sales are "bad" or "worrying", but I think there are good indicators that it won't be able to sell as much as the Wii did and a lot of people will obviously say that this is "bad".
I think it's a console designed to sell in a similar fashion as the Wii, with strong initial sales and a relatively early peak. If I was Nintendo I would release the next console in 5 years, as that seems to be the lesson from the Wii - the WiiU release just feels 12 month late.
So, in my opinion it is more of a "short track runner" and hence initial sales and demand are very important for it's all-time sales potential, while PS360 on the other hands have proven to be "marathon men", their low/mediocre initial sales still lead to pretty good all-time sales as they just have more years as the primary home console of their respective makers(PS3 likely 7, 360 8 years).
At this point in time I think WiiU will be at ~60m+/-10m once it successor releases, but don't quote me on that as it's obviously way too early for a good estimate and maybe I'm wrong and Nintendo is in for the long run with the WiiU.
