| drake_tolu said:
Ok, Wii U have sold less of GameCube, but even X360 have sold less fist year! XBOX 360: 9,36 milion on 31 Mar 2006 GC: 9,56 milion on 31 Mar 2002. And GC it was not even released in Europe, if if we take the first 8 months of Europe XBOX 360 have sold only 7,78 milion. So, if XBOX 360 have sold 80,000,000, best case for Wii U could very well be 40,000,000... IMHO, for me Wii U will sold more of 35,000,000, and Nintendo and nintendo will be able to earn something despite not recover its initial losses. |
people need to stop blindly comparing things like Wii U to Ps3 and 360 to GC. 360 was coming off of a 25m unit console. 360 was ridiculously priced... until ps3's price was announced. 360 had HUGE failure rates and reliability was shaky. 360 had no Japanese market at all. All reasons why 360 had a slow start and none of them could be said for the GC. Reasons why 360 was able to pull out 80m was that MS used a lot of its money. Used it to buy games and fix RRoD. 3rd parties started jumping ship from the ps3 of it's slower than expecrted sales (yet still a lot ftronger than the Wii U). The generation was unusually long in length. Kinect gave it second wind. And also, 'murica. None of which will be said for the Wii U.
