We need to talk about the Wii U sales, what happened?

[osed125]

Max King of the Wild said:

osed125 said:

The problem is that for publishers and devs it will be hard to just ignore a 140m install base, and considering how high development cost are this decision will be even harder to make. This next gen transition will take longer than previous ones imo.

According to Kowenicki the people are ready to pounce on new technology by evidence of (better than he expected) sales of console. Since they are so antsy for new technology they are turning to the ps2.

Sure they are ready to make the step, but how many of them are going to buy a $400+ console? And the point I stayed before still stands, big developers and publishers with high budget games will find hard to move to the next consoles with an install base of 0.

Most games at the beginning are going to be "shovelwares" with only a very few very good tittles (like usually happens with all consoles launch). Big devs aren't going to support the system until there's a big install base and that might take a while. 

Before this wan't a big deal because video games weren't as popular (so the risk was lower) and development cost weren't as ridiculously high.