Wii U vs 3ds

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Cold-Flipper said:

Conina said:

There are different degrees of competition. The PS2 had competition, but it was weaker.

The Wii had strong competition, but they compensated that by adding an additional target audience: the casual gamers.

The WiiU has a very strong competition: not only the PS4 and XBO, but also the well supported PS3 and 360.

How are the PS4 / XBO bigger competition than the GC & XB? They are brand new more expensive systems with small library's as of today. Wii U not selling now has little to do with them. As for the PS3 & XB 360, they already have sold tons of systems and also shouldn't have much overlap with potential Wii U buyers. In all honesty, Wii U is selling poorly because consumers see little to no reason to pay $300 for it. That's it. 

The Wii was seen as worth the price of admission. People wanted the product and people bought it in masses. It's that simple. On this site, we tend to over analyze things a bit as to why things were / weren't successful. Wii U simply is not seen as a product worthy of $300 at this time to many.

Try bigger brands. GC was coming in off of N64 and Xbox was brand new. PS4/XBO have a lot more mindshare and brand than the 'other two' consoles in PS2's gen.