How has Nintendo done with their one year headstart?(Revisited!)

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yvanjean said:

Fusioncode said:

yvanjean said:
IT's not as bad as everyone think it did. By the end of the year the WiiU should reach 5 million sold. By march 2014 there should be another price drop to bring the system down to $250 sales should pick slightly and WiiU will sales around 30 million lifetime unless we get another 7 years cycle then it could reach the 50 million.

It's done worse than everyone thought it would do. Taking 14 months to reach 5 million sold is beyond disastrous. Right now The WiiU is tracking below Dreamcast numbers. 50 million lifetime is not happening. 

I disaggree at $350 many were calling Nintendo foolish and stupid for selling WiiU way too expensive. Also, many experts claim that the WiiU would not be able to compete against the cheaper PS3 and Xbox 360. 

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nintendo-wii-u-price-expensive-says-ubisoft-ceo

The somewhat sucessfull launch of the WiiU kinda confused the nay sayers but they were proven right the following 9 months after the holiday season. Nintendo has run into cronic problem in development of WiiU games and the software was simply not ready so they never bothered lowering the price of the console until they add enough softwares realeasing to cover the loss on the consoles.

But non the less Nintendo as over 4.2 million consoles at the official start of the 8th generation of consoles (November 2013).  Nintendo will start the new year with more or less a 2 Million consoles sold advantage.

That's not an accomplishment, those numbers are horrendous. And that 2 million advantage will go away very quickly.