I have thought for a while, even with the high Xbox One sales at first that Nintendo has no less then 2nd place on lockdown this gen. They made bad choices of what games to develop and bring out in the earliest part of it's lifecycle. If by the end of 2013 they had Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and Hyrule Warriors instead of NSMBU, Pikmin, and Wind Waker HD, then the Wii U would have been going great and then those other games would have been fine additions to the library and would have given console sales a small bump here and there. Instead they went with the B-Level title 1st and they really suffered for it.
Xbox One is fighting a steep uphill battle this gen though. Gamers for reasons we all know have latched on to PS4, even when Xbox One has a larger and from all accounts better 1st party library, which includes a new IP 1st person shooter in Titanfall which should do big money. Watch Dogs came out and it gave Xbox One no bump at all while PS4 saw a big one, which says alot on it's own. On top of that as time has gone on now, the Wii U has become the "hardcore gamer" console with games like Pikmin and Wonderful 101, which hasn't led to massive sales but now that casual (and hardcore) favorites like Mario Kart are arriving the Wii U is becoming a must have console for many people. It doesn't hurt either that the quality (going by reviewer scores) for games on Wii U have been absolutely outstanding and the console is starting to shape up as having one of the highest rated libraries that we have ever seen.
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