Will the PS4 outsell the XBox One and WiiU?

[AbbathTheGrim]

ChristianSoldier said:

Andrespetmonkey said:



ChristianSoldier said:
Also, people seem to be underestimating a First party nintendo game's selling power



Not really. I mean, they're some of the biggest sellers you could ask for, but they aren't miracle workers. Look at Gamecube (22M) or N64 (32M)... both show Nintendo consoles can't sell themselves on Nintendo software alone. I see a similar but slightly better fate for Wii U (which isn't necessarily bad).



The Wii, Ds, and 3DS paint a different picture.

That is something so strange to me. Nintendo's game have always sold well but never (except the Wii and portables) have been enough to make them outsell the competition. Well, they say that people buy Nintendo systems to play Nintendo games and that explains it all. Seems like people who buy PS and Xbox does it with different approaches in mind, looking for different types of games that they can't find in Nintendo's systems. The attach rate of Nintendo's systems and games is very good, isn't it.

I think this generation, the one and only mistake Nintendo did was making a console that sells at a loss. They should have gone with a safer route and think in the possibility (which a lot of people seriously considered but not Nintendo themselves it seems) that the WiiU wouldn't ride the popularity wave of the Wii.

A couple of weeks ago I saw another one of those popular TV segments where the hosts talk about the importance of parents caring for the health of their children. You know, those family oriented segments on TV? They showed two scenarios of what is "alright" and "wrong" to do when letting kids play videogames. One had kids playing a system with COD (I think), another one had kids playing the old Wii. The hosts couldn't stop talking about how important is to make kids play those "active and physical" videogames. Nintendo and the WiiU no longer get those moments of free advertizement and rhetoric of parenting righteousness now that Nintendo has made kids sit down once again in order to play.