Umm.... If you look at the hardware sales in America, this last week, with the release of MH:U and Lego City(amazing game by the way, better than GTA IV imo), the WiiU saw a sales increase of 198%. So, OP, you are so wrong that my head exploded and then reformed itself. You are wrong, illogical, and mostly just crazy.
Your argument is that software won't drive hardware sales, because WII U DOESN'T HAVE THE SOFTWARE THAT WILL DRIVE HARDWARE SALES FOR SONY AND MICROSOFT. Do you understand logic? You cannot if you just made that argument. Maybe what you meant is that Nintendo's Software won't drive any appreciable hardware bump in sales? I don't know, you seem ridiculously dull.
And long term sales boosts? You seem not to understand economics here. There is a limited demand for everything because there is a limited population. You can't just have an infinite length of sales. Using your argument, NOTHING drives longterm sales. Look how shitty PS1 sales were last year THATS A TOTAL FAILURE OF A CONSOLE SONY SHOULD QUIT!!!!
You are a troll, you are trying to illicit a certain response, and this sort of thread is dull.
WiiU won't get the sales of Wii because the landscape has changed. I might also add that PS4 and NextBox won't reach the sales that they did for the same reasons. The gaming landscape has changed. Now you have smart phones and tablets that can play very decent games, the casual market has shifted to these devices. Steam has eaten into a small chunk of the gaming population, but even a few percent is still millions of gamers. This last generation of gaming is definitely the peak of standalone consoles, nothing will ever sell like the Wii or PS2 again, not ever, unless we are speaking of Tablets and phones. The gaming market is too spread out these days. In 2006, if you wanted to play anything better than chess or a crappy flash game you needed at cheapest, a DS, now you can play HD games on your phone.
Someone close this thread, the OP is a troll.
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