The summer started : Wii U is still failing hard, PS3 has way outgrown X360, PS4 out-ordered Xbone

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superspeedybull said:

Mensrea said:

blublibla said:

3DS	264,483	(+114%)	31,902,736
PS3	146,813	(+21%)	77,817,920
X360	79,854	(+1%)	77,609,830
PSP	50,038	(-1%)	79,241,760
PSV	33,095	(+18%)	5,235,935
Wii	26,070	(-7%)	99,686,450
WiiU	23,103	(-4%)	3,169,446

Let's put things in perspective :

1.
The Xbox 360 was release in 2005.
The PS3 and Wii were released in 2006.
The Wii sold the most console ever (99.5M) but the PS3 has sold more than X360 altough it was release one year after.

2.
The PS3 is selling almost twice more than X360 which is great momentum for the current and also the next generation.
The Wii however is not and has not been selling well for two years now.

3. 
Hence the Wii U is really a failure sale/attraction wise. There's no getting around it : it's selling less than current consoles, it's selling less than the PSVita, it's selling less than the Wii and according to recent number, there's more PS4 and Xbox One pre-orders monthly than Wii U sales.

In fact the PS4 has 2 pre-orders for one Xbox One, and most relevant analyst predict 3 to 4 PS4 sold for 1 Xbox One (I agree with the 3:1 numbers for this year)

Conclusion :

This generation is not set up. In fact before comparing consoles I have to remind you : there's never been so much changes and threat to the consoles than now (PC, Moble, Homebrew, TVs...).

But the Wii U IS BY ALL MEAN A FAILURE. It WILL NEVER get better because, deal with it, the context has changed, it's not the Wii era 2006 but the next-gen era 2013.

The Battle will be between the PS4 and Xbox One. The DRM debacle gave the PS4 a big headstart but as usual the casual and couch potatoes will decide which one wins, nowing that in Asia the Xbox One won't even be available as well as in many other countries, that currently the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 in Europe and Asia, and the X360 sold more in the US, but is now selling as much as PS3.

That's not exactly an educated assumption. This holiday the Wii U will have the most impressive lineup, I think we should wait until after the games hit to call it a failure. Sure it's doing very poorly right now, but saying: "It WIll Never get better because deal with it this is not 2006" is pretty dumb. 

 

Also, you fail to mention the 3DS which is handily beating the shit out of the rest of the consoles. 

The 3DS is a handheld console so I think it should'nt be compared to Home Consoles. Compare it to the Vita and yes it is kicking its ass.

Yes, you're right and also we're missing one big point that PS3 is sold at 250 and 300$ whereas other consoles are cheap except Wii U. So PS3 is doing great with that big price and 3DS is doing such big becoz of its price mostly(can it sale this much with a price point of 200$ or more?i bet it can't). This is the reason why Wii sold 99 Million as well but PS3 did 78 million with very big price from the starting which is really big achievement and no others can achieve this with a big price(look at Wii U).