Wii U sales aren't that 'doomed' bad.

[DerNebel]

Damkos said:

DerNebel said:

Dark_Feanor said:

Damkos said:

Whenever I see such posts I just wonder - what happened to 2007-like sales? Financial crisis? Or general boredom with gaming?
I wasn't here on 2007 so I can't tell.

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39110/Global/

DS	380,526	(+24%)	36,093,151
Wii	251,288	(+2%)	4,007,149
PSP	162,208	(-4%)	20,351,200
X360	113,045	(-3%)	8,480,456
PS3	74,220	(-7%)	1,632,136

Refrasing: WiiU is doing close to 1/3 360 was doing at a similar time frame and 1/2 PS3´s (a machine that costed 2x que WiiU current price )

If you look at those number you can see that the generational difference in home consoles isn't that big actually.

January 27th, 2007: Wii+360+PS3= 14mil consoles

January 26th, 2014: Wii U+X1+PS4= a little less then 14mil consoles

Still, neither 3DS today or PS4 can even dream of close to 400.000 sales weekly.
What I mean is - total weekly sales of January 2014 - roughly 600.000 consoles

Total January 2007 - close to 1 million. 

True but we have to consider two things here.

1. Of those one million consoles, over 500k were handhelds, which are without a doubt massively down this generation that can't be denied.

2. Another big contributor to the 1 million number was the Wii, which was just a console with a very unique sales curve, freakishly high sales at first but then a relatively fast drop of overall sales as well.

The biggest reason for those high january numbers in 2007 is that Nintendo were able to generate huge sales by tapping into a market that normally wasn't really interested in consoles or handhelds. The 2014 sales on the other hand mostly seem low because Nintendo hasn't been able to generate the same effect with the 3DS and the Wii U (and of course because dedicated handhelds are going away), that is of course bad for Nintendo and dedicated handhelds, but I think console gaming in general will still be doing fine this gen.