Before saying anything else, let it be known that I believe the PS4 and probably the Xbox One will ultimately outsell the Wii U by a fair margin. They have a load of factors working in their favor, including seemingly great exclusive and multiplatform games.
BUT
As you may know, I run a monthly poll on this website for peoples' most anticipated games. People vote on five games, from most wanted to least wanted, and point values are assigned to each vote. Then, all the numbers are added up and we get some interesting results.
Well, I happened to stumble across last year's results, for the month before the Wii U launched, on my laptop earlier today, and saw that they were... very different from this year's batch of new consoles.
The following is a list of the currently most anticipated games coming out this year for the Xbox One.
| Title | Platform | Publisher | Points |
| Forza 5 | One | Microsoft | 6 |
| Spark | One | Microsoft | 3 |
Not very impressive, I know, but Microsoft fans are rare on this site, and people seem to be waiting for Halo and Destiny.
Next, we have PS4 games coming out in 2013.
| Title | Platform | Publisher | Points |
| Killzone Shadowfall | PS4 | Sony | 33 |
| Call of Duty: Ghosts | PS4 | Activision | 9 |
| Battlefield 4 | PS4 | Electronic Arts | 4 |
| Assassin's Creed 4 | PS4 | Ubisoft | 2 |
| Need for Speed Rivals | PS4 | Electronic Arts | 1 |
That's not amazing, but still pretty nice! Look at how the star of the launch is clearly Killzone, with the rest of the games being multiplatform titles.
But what about the Wii U's results this time last year?
| Title | Platform | Publisher | Points |
| New Super Mario Bros U | Wii U | Nintendo | 60 |
| ZombiU | Wii U | Ubisoft | 36 |
| Assassin's Creed 3 | Wii U | Ubisoft | 23 |
| Epic Mickey 2 | Wii U | Disney | 14 |
| Nintendo Land | Wii U | Nintendo | 5 |
| Little Inferno | Wii U | Tomorrow | 4 |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 | Wii U | Activision Blizzard | 2 |
| Ninja Gaiden 3 | Wii U | Nintendo | 2 |
| Scribblenauts Unlimited | Wii U | Warner Bros | 2 |
| Batman: Arkham City - Armored Edition | Wii U | Warner Bros | 1 |
That's right. The Wii U had more launch games charting than the One and PS4 COMBINED do at the moment. And the Wii U had about THREE TIMES as many points as the PS4 does at the moment. And strangely enough, only one of the top four Wii U games come from Nintendo. Hell, AC3 and EM2 were multiplatform games!
What does this mean? Well, not that the PS4 and One are doomed. They have a lot of big games coming up, like Final Fantasy, Infamous, Destiny, and Watch Dogs.
But that's the thing. These games are coming LATER. The actual launches of the PS4 and Xbox One, at least according to this website's members, simply don't seem to measure up to the Wii U's 2012 launch.
What do you think? Do these poll results reveal something about these different platforms? Could the PS4 and One potentially have problems in the future? Were Nintendo fanboys being delusional getting hyped for ZombiU?
Please comment and say what you think!
