Mandalore76 said:
I can think of one. When Gamecube released, PS2 had already been on the market for well over a year. It had already sold over 10 million units by that point, and had sold over 18 million units before Gamecube was 6 months old. PS2 was well on its way to becoming an unstoppable juggernaut before Gamecube even made it to the shelf. There isn't now (and isn't going to be) a PS2 type system to guarrantee Wii U of no hope of picking up steam once Nintendo comes through with it's first party games. While Nintendo hasn't created any momentum for themselves by releasing early, what they have done is gotten that first year of growing pains out of the way early before the other consoles release. I think to make a statement that Wii U has no reason to have better lifetime sales than the Gamecube before we see how it does this coming holiday season with all it's first party releases is premature (if ignorant is too harsh a word). |
It's not too harsh.
