I keep hearing about how badly Nintnedo screws up in selling the hardware but what really irks me is their abysmal software sales!
If you take a look at the platform totals under software you'll notice that the 3DS has ONLY mustered up about 130 million game sales so far. If we were to account for the rest of the systems lifetime software sales it likely wouldn't go above the N64 software sales! Almost all of the 3DS's heavy hitters are out and have had considerable amount of time on shelf yet the software sales are dropping fast so there are no reason to believe that it will get a large enough rebound to revitalize the game sales.
As for the WII U that console will most likely not beat the DREAMCAST in software sales! The WII U's total software sales currently stand at around 20 million but the dreamcast has around 65 million in software sales. Smash and mario kart will probably only move around 5 million units each so that will likely bump it up to 30 million but how are the rest of the titles coming out on the WII U going to have a meaningful effect ? At best I can only see the WII U reaching just over 50 million!
