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Mummelmann on 19 February 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Salnax said:
pezus said:
WiiU is really flatlining compared to Wii, isn't it?

Terribly so. I guess it's because of all those big Q1 Wii games.

No, I'm actually serious. Looking back, we had Wii Play, WarioWare, and Sonic in January and February for the Wii. Wii Play was a great way into getting people to keep playing their system for another month or two, and sold tens of millions of copies. And those other two games were both sales successes.

It has much more to do with the Wii being an awesome system, because it wasn't a continuation of the GameCube direction which was rejected by the market. The Wii U, however, is a successor to the GC.

The Wii was great Nintendo, going against the industry. The Wii U is lame Nintendo, obeying to the industry. On one hand you have a system that was selling out for a long time. On the other hand you have a system that is barely selling at all.

Games cannot really change the underlying philosophy of a console. The Wii and Wii U are like night and day, so getting this thing back on track will cost Nintendo a fortune. Even then, it's by no means guaranteed that we'll ever see a turnaround. On the plus side, the Wii U has some things going for it that the GC didn't have (headstart, more room for price cuts, broader portfolio of Nintendo games), but how big of a difference these things really make we'll have to see. A lot will also depend on how competently Sony and Microsoft will handle their eighth generation systems.


Bolded; I wish more people could understand this. This is the behemoth weakness of the Wii U and the Vita and the cause of their poor sales.

OT: This is some incredible work, OP! Good job!

Interesting to see the 3DS lag behind globally, almost as if it isn't destined to sell nearly as much as the DS and the market is moving faster and other devices are diverting customers from the handheld market in general (The combined 220 million or so handheld installed base from the PSP/DS will stand head and shoulders and a really tall hat above the 3DS/Vita combo). If only I could remember who said that this would happen and is happening right now...