| thismeintiel said: The whole industry is in a decline, which will be even worse for the PS4/NeXbox. While the industry is in a decline, it has to do more with the current systems turning 7 years old (8 for the 360) this year. That doesn't necessarily mean that next gen will continue this decline. It also implies that Nintendo has always been on top, so the other consoles will always fare worse than Nintendo's console. I think a lot of this comes from some Nintendo fans only coming into gaming recently, so are ignorant, willingly or not, of what happened with the N64 and Gamecube. Personally, I think the Wii U is going to end up with sales similar to those consoles. |
That is the argument I've used and it is actually very valid. I wouldn't say the industry is in decline but people are spending less. Look at 3ds and vita. 3ds came out at £230 and people didn't pay it. People swore they would do it with vita though and look what happened. It seems the specs didn't lure consumers in.
Wii u has launched at a fairly mainstream price for gamers and it is yet again struggling. If you actually think more power (which would mean more expensive consoles and games as well) will fair any better then you are probably in for a rude awakening. In fact this time next year I think we will see the same excuses vita got when that came out "oh but wii u launched without any competition so it isn't fair to compare to that". It depends how sales go but I highly doubt the others aren't going to struggle.
One more thing to complete my year = senran kagura localization =D
