Shadow1980 said:
XboneWins said:
Isn't Wii U doing worse than Dreamcast? 1m for this year is a bit too much. |
False equivalence. The DC was discontinued in March 2001. There is no reason to suspect that Nintendo will discontinue the Wii U before its successor, as I explained here. Furthermore, even assuming your chart is correct (I'd like to see the origin of that Dreamcast data), it's meaningless as other systems have had very similar curves to each other yet in the longer term their sales are like night and day. In the U.S. and Japan, the PS3 was tracking behind the GameCube in LTD sales until the end of 2008, and in the U.S. the Wii was tracking on par with the PS2 by the end of 2008 and ahead of it most of its life. That hasn't exactly stuck, has it? The PS3 maintained steady year-over-year growth after 2008 while the GC peaked in 2003, while the Wii will have a shorter life than the PS2 and consequently also a faster drop-off over time and thus will fall short of matching the PS2. Simplictic "System A is selling x% as much as System B was during its first year/first few months" comparisons are almost always invalid.
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I remember not so long ago, the 3DS was doing really, really poorly and well, look at it now. I have faith in Nintendo, period.
