Is it really the wiiU who performed poorly? Or are we just starting to see the beginning of the end of dedicated gaming consoles?

[Otakumegane]

VGKing said:

Otakumegane said:

ryuzaki57 said:
No it's just the WiiU not appealing to anyone beyond Nintendo fans. People will throw themselves on the 399€ PS4 and X720.

The same way people will throw themselves on the Vita? With a 249 euro price point? Yeah, not gonna happen. No matter how good people say it is.

I admit at the current stage only Nintendo Fans have the WiiU, but the price is a very big problem. No one's going to throw 399 Euro on PS4 and X720 until the next Halo, Uncharted, next-gen CoD comes out. (And it seems likely that next years CoD might come to both Ps3 and 360 too.) No one's gonna buy those consoles either no matter how good they are until the needed software starts coming out.

It has always been price+software. WiiU is lacking in both right now.

Vita is a different story. It's not selling well because of the 3DS and smartphones/tablet competition. Why are you even bringing that up?

Because the Vita is in a similar situation with the WiiU now, they both lack a competitive price point and the software.

When X720 and PS4 launch, they aren't going to launch with the next Halo, they aren't going to have Uncharted 4, and for sure not COD only on those two consoles. Now once Ninty reveals everything and its still not selling then i'll be worried.

But I'm not gonna be worried if PS4 and X720 dont sell much at launch because at that point the price just doesn't justify the software. The same arguments that the Vita faced are the same that all the next-gen consoles will face.