By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
justinian on 02 March 2013
Edit Thread
Immortal said:
AnthonyW86 said:

You're logic doesn't make any sense. The PSV and 3DS are handhelds, different market and shouldn't be compared. Besides the handheld market is shifting towards smartphones and tablets in the west.

The Wii-U is selling like the Wii would have sold without all the casuals buying it because of the motion controls, and only fans of Nintendo's franchises are jumping in at this point. Everyone else is waiting for the PS4 and the Next Xbox.

The PS4 will likely sell better than the PS3 did because it will launch at a lower price.


I don't think you can really pretend that the two markets are completely disconnected. You realize they're all video game platforms, right?

Anyway, your interpretation seems to be just twisting the facts to try to fit it into the "worthless casuals" stereotype. The people who bought the PSP are really not the kind to be driven away by smartphones. The fact that they're gone in equal numbers to Nintendo's casuals demonstrates that there's really a much bigger problem afoot here.

 If the two markets are not disconnected they are surely independent of each other.  

Nintendo has always done well in the handheld market even when their consoles flopped. Gameboy success didn't help Gamecube anymore than the Vita flopping is hindering the PS3. X360 doesn't even have a tiny little brother and it has no relevance to it's sales.

Looking at the current sales the handheld market seems to be dying, more so in the west where it is heading to irrelevancy.

You have also tried to translate what is happening to the Vita to the PS4 in another post and that in itself is a flawed theory.

OT: Based on current sales I would be happy if the wii u sold half as much as the N64 but we are getting way ahead of ourselves.

The only possible time to realistically judge wii u sales is well into the next gen. There is absolutely no gaurantee that PS4 and x720 (or whatever) is going to set the world alight anymore than the wii u did.