| Mazty said: I dragged them out because handhelds are about as relevant to this thread as the iphone is. OMG THEY PLAYZ GAMZ! Yeah, doesn't mean they should be compared. Who compares the Enzo to the Mondeo? No one. They are aimed at entirely different markets. Just like handhelds. The focus was that with the sales having hit such a low, does this mean anything for the future of the console? Saying "oh but it has done better than the PS3" doesn't change the fact that it has had a staggeringly low week of sales compared to other consoles. Sony may have been in the red, but they also managed to secure bluray as the next optical format. Nevertheless we digress. Does it matter how the wii u would have sold in 2006? We are comparing it's lowest week to the recorded lowest week of the last two generations of consoles rather than focusing on a year e.g. 2006. Factor in all the handicaps because those are relevant today, not in the past. |
Certainly the Wii U is in a deep slump. My biggest objection was with your implication that it had a worse launch than the PS3, which is not by any means true. If you really want to factor in all of the handicaps, by all means do so. The economy. Inflation. The prevalence of mobile devices (which absolutely has an affect on home console sales if it has one on handheld sales). The lack of software.
If your focus is really on the future of the console, you won't mind me saying that it has already begun its recovery as per February's sales. And by the fact that it does not have zero retail releases this month, as it had the past two.
Really, your handheld argument annoys me to no end. If handhelds and home consoles are completely different markets and shouldn't be compared whatsoever, why do you say "the handheld market is especially challenged now by tablest & phones"? Surely handhelds are a completely different market from mobile devices and the two are incomparable, just as handhelds and home consoles are.
