| S.T.A.G.E. said
You must factor in price and the fact that people were waiting for Sonys move to decide whether to purchase the 360 or PS3. The 360 didnt have any major core gamers at that time either. Pachter stated that the crowd who bought the first two million Wii U's are Nintnedos core audience. |
Those circumstances factor in here as well. WiiU is only 50$ cheaper than the 360 was at launch and in a worse economy, with the basic SKUs for each equally priced. And people are waiting for Sony and Microsoft's next moves as well before deciding.
The only thing that the WiiU has going against it in comparison here is that it is coming off of a hugely successful predecessor, whereas the 360 was not.
Regarding Pachter's statement, I agree that the mass consumers were not part of that first 2m, but that strengthens my point further. There is still plenty of time for that group to gravitate toward the WiiU; the system barely launched, is at its highest price right now and has the smallest library it will ever have at the moment.
In any case, holiday of 2013 will be a very telling period for WiiU, and unless Nintendo completely botches it, I think it has the potential to do quite nicely.
