How can Nintendo gamers even talk about other system failing?

[Mummelmann]

Aielyn said:

Mummelmann said:
No, I'm saying that the data you get from such an analysis is inconclusive. But, going by the moment (which is all we have), its not headed for greatness. I imagine people will still be chanting "give it some time to settle" one year from now if sales haven't picked up greatly.

But nobody is trying to use the 360 or 3DS to specifically predict what will happen with the Wii U. All they're doing is pointing to those other consoles and saying "see, short-term behaviour doesn't predict long-term behaviour". They prove that you can't look at what the Wii U sold in the week ending the 19th of January 2013 and draw conclusions about how well the system will be selling in March 2013, let alone in 2014.

Rather than so many people predicting Wii U doom, why can't they simply say "the Wii U is going to need something more to return to reasonable sales", and leave it at that? It's a reasonable, measured comment that says that there are weaknesses with the Wii U that need to be addressed. No doom, no gloom, and certainly no gloating or joy over the weak current sales of a console that is "competing" with a person's preferred system.

Because some people feel that this is not the case. The weaknesses are not something solely to be fixed with games, price cuts and patches, the very console itself is designed in such as way that it misses both markets, this cannot be redeemed by any of the above.

However, it is up to anyone to measure what one would consider "reasonable sales".