PS3 had a worse launch in terms of price and losses.
Wii U had a worse launch in terms of awareness.
If you look back at the PS3, everybody was aware it existed. It had this highend feeling to it. Nobody was willing to pay ofcourse and Sony made huge losses. But people still wanted one just not for that price. Xbox 360 had superior price and software yet people stil kept talking about the PS3. And when you look at it Sony offered Hardware features from the future in the PS3, which made it look desireable despite the price and the game drought.
But the Wii U is basically unknown. And I know noone who plans to buy it or even talks about it. People seem to think Wii U is a Wii. And if they say Nintendo HD console on TV nobody even realizes what the novelty is or the difference to what existed years ago. The Screencontroller seems old. In the way that the average person knows tablets. While visiting my relatives we saw a a Wii U Commercial and I observed them watching the commercial. And I asked them so what do you think of the new Wii. Irritated they asked me what new WII ? I said we just watched the commercial. Ohh right. So whats new ? I said the screen controller and HD. They were surprised that this was a new thing. Thinking that this has been somehow done before, somewhere else.
Nintendo needs games and need better marketing and show why people should buy it. Also 349 for a Nintendo is too much its "just" a Nintendo aka gaming device.
Wii Us problems can be fixed if the games are there and the marketing shows whats good about it what can be done,
This is how uninformed people would probably percieve it (in Europe atleast): PS 3 expensive but hightech maybe later. Wii U ??????
I would say its a tie PS3 screwed up everything but all those screw ups were not obvious except price. Wii Us screw up is not being seen as new or not being seen at all.
