Which console launch was handled worse, PS3 or Wii U?

[TheLastStarFighter]

Yakuzaice said:

TheLastStarFighter said:
Definitely PS3. One of the worst launches ever. Sony was coming off an absolutely dominant generation with PS2 and botched it up to fall way behind. They sold the system at too high a price, lost over 50% of their market share, lost money on the system, lost most of their 3rd party exclusives. And as bad as Wii U has been selling, PS3 sold worse.

Wii U had a decent launch, but has flatlined brutally. But, it's still better off than the launch of either PS3 or XBox 360. At the rate it's currently trending it will fall to worse than those, but it also had two months without new games so it may pick up again with new titles. The real thing is with Wii U is that it's launch is more like 360. It's the first out of the gate, it's competing with cheaper last-gen systems and it has some growing pains to work out. But it's doing so before the competition launches, which is the key. PS3 was launching from behind from the get-go.

For more than a month now the Wii U has been selling worse than the PS3 ever did, even before it launched in Europe.  As for Europe, the PS3 did more in two weeks in March than the Wii U has done in 13 weeks.  At its current rate it will take another 10 weeks to reach the PS3's two week sales.  In the US the PS3 will probably be ahead after four months when we get the February NPD numbers.  In Japan the Wii U is ahead overall, but it also took just 12 weeks to fall below 10k while the PS3 took 27 weeks.

I'm not quite sure what the point of your post is.  Are you saying that PS3 sold better?  As I said, the WiiU is trending poorly at the moment as sales flatlined after Christmas.  As of right now it is well ahead, but is trending to be just slightly above at the end of March when the PS3 Euro launch comes into play.  Of course the WiiU could also start to sell worse or better in March.  But as of right now WiiU has sold better based on the success of its first few months.

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