As long as both consoles turns a profit that's good, and could be seen as successes. But as far as market shares goes it all depends. Say that 35m Wii U's is about 30% of the market that would be a success (but an overall fail for the whole industry), but if 35m is 15% of the market... that would be kind of sad.
But ask youself what's better; to sell 35m and make a profit or sell 100m and lose money... so the answer to this question isn't as black and white as people make it out to be.
And the same logic goes for the 3DS. 95m is good if that's like 75% of the market - but it would still be a failure for the industry as a whole, since it failed to expand or maintain the market.
I think we as gamers and as an industry must come to terms with the possibility that this gen might be the greatest failure since the game crash in the 80's.
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