Nintendo's silence on WiiU to be broken soon

[VGKing]

RolStoppable said:

VGKing said:

RolStoppable said:

It's still a headstart. Microsoft messed up theirs with the 360 (high price, software droughts, no real must-have titles, unreliable hardware), yet a measly 5.5m units were still good enough to stay ahead of the PS3 for a very long time. A lot of Nintendo's current problems can be fixed before the Nextbox and PS4 launch. Not all of them, but enough to leave the current horrible position behind them.

About two years ago people were quite sure that Sony wouldn't repeat Nintendo's 3DS mistakes with the Vita. I wouldn't count on smooth launches for the Nextbox and PS4.

A headstart is pointless if you're just going to let the other guys catch up to you. Microsofts mistake didn't matter since Sony repeated their mistake as well with a poor launch line-up and higher price.

...and Sony and Microsoft are set to launch more expensive consoles with uninteresting launch lineups. The majority of games will be ports of seventh generation games and exclusives like Killzone aren't suddenly going to be system sellers.

You're right about that. But these consoles don't need to light the charts on fire in their 1st year. They have guaranteed long-term support from 3rd parties. The Wii U doesn't so its first year on the market is extremely important as there's where it will find its audience. We still don't even know what the launch line-up will look like for any of these consoles so calling it uninteresting this early is ridiculous. Besides, a Call of Duty, Battlefield and Assassin's Creed will be more than enough for most gamers even if they are just ports of current-gen consoles.