| DevilRising said: 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? |
I think you misunderstand what I mean by that. Not so much sales but public perception. The average person on the street would not have been able to tell you what a Dreamcast was (in the UK at least). The same goes for Wii U. I havent met a single person who owns the system and when people have seen the pad in my living room they have no idea what it is. I did own a DC at the time of Sega's exit from the hardware market and it feels similar. Few large shops stock the games (i.e supermarkets), nobody is actually that interested and everyone is talking about the other systems being released in the near future.
Dont get me wrong I loved DC and now I love Wii U. In fact Im much happier with Wii U (at launch) as a gamer than I ever was with Wii, but I do think Nintendo need to act even if it means taking a hit.
