| Jumpin said: It's not unprecedented for Nintendo consoles to flop. N64 and GameCube are two examples. |
I'm not sure you realize this, but neither console "flopped". Both had some of the best selling games of the generation, and both made Nintendo money. Just because the Playstation brand took over the industry during those gens, with the PS2 especially because it was a reasonalby cheap DVD player at the time, doesn't imply that those consoles "flopped" with over 20 million units sold each (N64 closer to 30). By those standards, the original Xbox also "flopped", but it didn't.
Also, I fail to see how people can claim Wii U has a "very Dreamcast feel to it" right now, when the Dreamcast did VERY well right out of the gate, it's early sales were pheonimal.......and then it sharply dropped and never recovered, forcing Sega to finally exit the console market. Considering that the Wii U has and WILL have the exact opposite phenominon happen to it (slow start, will start to rise exponentially once big games come out), and considering the DC sold 10 million LIFETIME..........how is that equatable?
