I can't understand the Nintendo doom threads/sentiment

[MikeRox]

drake4 said:

MikeRox said:
Nintendo failures? Given I frequently read the PSP was a failure because it "only" sold 80m vs the DS's 140+m.

Surely the fact that no Nintendo console has ever outsold the PS2 means every one is a failure?

Actually if Wii U was currently doing as it is in most other console generations, it'd be a massively successful console.

you mean selling worse then gamecube and dreamcast after the same time frame, in a generation where game development is way more expensive then any generation your talking about.

Dreamcast wasn't actually an epic failure of a console. SEGA ran out of money to be able to support it further due to their previous misdemeaners, however it still outsold their previous consoles other than the Mega Drive/Genesis.

When you then factor in it only had a shelflife of about 14 months in the West, suddenly it was a much more successful proposition,