Global UP! 5th January

[Jay520]

sales2099 said:

Jay520 said:

Kresnik said:

Jay520 said:

sales2099 said:
WiiU can sell whatever it can until it catches its stride. Its called a headstart for a reason people....

By that logic, Dreamcast sales must have been pretty good during its first year.

Didn't Dreamcast get off to a pretty good start?  Until PS2 hype killed the sales.  I seem to remember reading various pieces about how Dreamcast actually had a really successful launch and sold well for a while.

It may have had a good start, but it wasn't good enough for the Dreamcast to survive the PS2's launch.

I'm not saying the Wii U is going to be discontinued. But to say any sales are acceptable just because the PS4 & 720 haven't released makes no sense at all.

We count this gens lifetime sales, including 360s head start sales. One can say thats the very reason why the 360 did so good this gen. Makes perfect sense.

My response to that can be summed up in my earlier post, which you've conveniently ignored...

First of all, the Wii U is competing right now. It's competing to prove itself as a viable console for 3rd parties. It's competing for relevance. Most importantly, Nintendo is competing against Playstation and Xbox brand right now for brand power. If the Wii U continues to be outsold by the PS360 by such a large margin, then Nintendo's brand as a whole will diminish in comparison to Playstation and Xbox. Needless to say, this will make the Wii U's future that much more hard. To say that any sales are acceptable, regardless of how bad they may be, is simply flawed thinking.