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Soundwave on 24 January 2013
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teigaga said:

I don't get the complaints about the Wii U having no systems sellers in its 1st few months. We rarely ever see such a thing... the 360s system seller arrived in the form of Gears a year after launch, the ps3's in the form of MEtal Gear in 2008 or arguably COD/Assassins Creed in late 2007, even though they're not exclusive, they still gave you incentive to pick up a next gen system.

My problem with the Wii U is that nintendo never gave us reason to be excited about its future. If possible these games should have been shown prior to the systems launch. But regardless almost every system launch gets the same reception; 360.... no games, ps3... no games.... 3DS.... no games, PSvita.... no games. Even the wii which had the best launch of last gen (IMO) was said to have too many ports and not enough original games in its 1st 6 months.

The difference between Nintendo machines and Sony/MS machines is Sony/MS machines tend to be very well supported by third parties and the audience there also gravitates to genres that tend to be viewed as "throwaways" on the Nintendo audience (like sports games, which are a big deal on the Playstation or XBox). For a lot of PS or XBox fans a new Madden or FIFA or NHL is every bit as important to them as a new Zelda or Mario is to the Nintendo fan.

The 360 still had Call of Duty 2 IIRC at launch which really probably laid the ground work for the franchise to explode later on because it got a lot of attention as being "the" 360 game to buy early on. 

I believe the 360 also had Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion by March of its first year. Obviously Skyrim would be huge for the 360 later. 

The 360 had a pretty good launch window to be honest, Call of Duty 2, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Ridge Racer 6, Perfect Dark, Kameo within the first 4 months. Dead Rising was also before Gears of War.