WiiU down YOY in every region, weekly sales are off

[retroking1981]

Seece said:

retroking1981 said:
Simple fact is this generation will be the first (to my knowledge) not to outsell the previous one.

Thats a sad fact for any gamer.

I think:
Xone will be down although I couldn't estimate how bad yet
3DS will be down about 50%
Wii U and Vita will be massively down
PS4 has a good chance of being up but it has zero chance of being up enough to offset the drops above.

Wii and DS gave an 'artificial' boost tho, it could never be sustained. And something can't keep growing and growing infinitely. Even smartphones will slow down one day!

Agreed but I didn't expect it to drop so drastically, at least thats the way its looking.

What I worry about is companies going bust and having another video game crash, although thats very drastic and unlikely.

It feels like in a few more years we're only gonna have the really big companies then indies left and even those big companies could struggle. Take Ubisoft, if Watch Dogs bombs, Just Dance does a Guitar Hero (its only a matter of time) and people get series fatigue over Assassin's Creed all in quick succession it would hit them really hard.

These big publishers are becoming to reliant on certain franchises. I think Activision are in for a shock with CoD this year, I think thats kinda had its day now.