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

[benji232]

VGKing said:

Bienrico said:
I think that if the WiiU and it's software continue to sell poorly, the PS4 and 720 + it's games will do worse.

Is it so hard to imagine that the Wii U will fail to make a significant impact on the home console market? Nintendo's "unique" strategies and hardware have failed Nintendo before......Nintendo has had 2 flops in a row with Gamecube and N64. For all we know Wii was just a one-hit-wonder. Luck of the draw. A fluke.

They were certainly less big of a flop then the 360 and ps3, because both gc and n64 made profit which isn't what happened with the 360 and ps3. In terms of hw sold, then I agree but I tend to look more at the profit then the hw sold when comparing the success of 2 consoles because if you really want to compare it like that, I could say that the wiiU launch was more "successful" then the wii launch because it generated more revenues. But that isn't the case because we all know wiiU is being sold at a loss combined with doing poor numbers.