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oniyide on 14 September 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

This isn't going to be a pretty generation for people hanging their hats on Nintendo's console business. The apologists can keep spinning it as a rosy situation, but there's always some excuse lined up for them (Nintendo Land was never supposed to sell the Wii U, no one buys a console for Mario ... in 2D, but they will for 3D! ... of course Pikmin 3 can't be expected to boost the hardware at all, etc. etc. etc.). I'll admit if I'm wrong if it happens, but so far the system has performed even worse than my most pessimistic predictions. 

If I had told people here a year ago the Wii U would be performing the way it actually is right now, I'd get attacked left and right by people on this board who would claim it impossible even with a few months of delays to Pikmin + Rayman. I'd be inundated with "no system with a new Mario game is going to sell worse than the GameCube, you're crazy! Have you seen Nintendo Land? It looks super fun! And it has HD Call of Doooty! And Zombi U looks way better than Red Steel! LOL, 30k a month in North America? That's Vita levels, you're crazy, never will happen!". Even in months where LEGO City + Monster Hunter 3G and Pikmin 3 + Splinter Cell: Blacklist have come out the 30k/month needle on the Wii U hasn't moved at all, which to me is concerning.

It's ancedontal sure (as is anyone's prediction) but of the 15 "casual gaming" friends I know that had a Wii, not even one of them has a Wii U or has expressed any interest in getting one even when I told them it has Wii Fit U in a couple of a months. Some of my predictions may be a tad low, but others are probably generous.

Soundwave, your nonsense has to stop. Let's take a look at some of your "pessimistic" predictions from last year:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4811839

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4811881

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4811915

Don't act like you've seen the current situation coming, because you vastly overestimated everything. The Gamepad, Nintendo Land, Japanese third party support etc.

 

wow, just wow