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DerNebel on 02 January 2014
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DietSoap said:
DerNebel said:

I'm just...I... seriously how can people still make assumptions like that? You know you're on a sales site here so you can easily look at the data we have, right? How can you look at those numbers and still think that 2 games are suddenly going to completely turn the Wii U around?


Well... What does the PS4 or One even have for 2014 that can match two of the biggest hitters in the entire industry, Smash and Mario Kart (you know, the game that sold over 30 million last gen)? Infamous 3million LTD? Titanfall that's also on 360 and PC? Some crossgen multiplats also strewn across both next gen platforms and PC, with some even on Wii U?

Seriously, I'm just not seeing anything that can even come close to pushing units like Smash and Mario Kart. Couple that with my expectation that a new mainline Zelda and a new Metroid will be shown off this E3 as well as a drop to $200 for the holidays (not even counting the black friday deals), and yeah... I just don't see how either the PS4 or One can hope to match it.

The Wii U is going to absolutely explode in sales this year, I still can't believe people foolishly underestimate Nintendo time and time again only for them to dominate each and every time.

Well, I guess it's still possible to close your eyes and ears and just ignore everything that's going on in the real world. Don't get me wrong Smash and MK will sell great and they will move consoles, but the Wii Us problems reach way deeper than just not having the right Nintendo games out right now, so getting those games, that everyone and their grandmother knew were coming since before the console was out, released is not suddenly going to save the thing and that some people still don't seem to want to face that simply boggles my mind.

You know what's pushing PS4s and X1s right now? It's people being tired of this gen, it's people just wanting to make the switch, over 5 million people have already switched just because of that and I'll guarantee that a good percentage of PS4s will be sold this year just because of that, it doesn't need one specific game to sell. All the third party and first party games that will come out this year (btw a lot more games than the Wii U'll get), cross gen, multi or exclusive will account for the rest of the people buying a PS4 or X1, which will be alot. And the PS4 is going to almost certainly take the majority between it and the X1 thanks to a number of advantages, so yeah...I'm not going to say anything about the X1 but the PS4 is going to outsell the Wii U this year, by a healthy margin, I'm sure of that.

Also Nintendo dominated one home console generation of the last three, so your "they dominate each and every time" comment makes no sense.