atomicblue on 08 June 2014
| Panama said: Looking a little bleak actually. I sincerely hope VGChartz estimates are wrong, because if the Wii U couldn't outsell the PS4 for at least one week with its biggest exclusive of the year, then Nintendo are in trouble. And before people lecture me on Watchdogs being a huge release, it was available on 4 other platforms and received 2 months straight of negative press coming up to its launch. |
It's worth remembering here that Watch_Dogs launched on the 27th, while MK8 launched on the 29th-31st in different regions (29th in Japan, 30th in US/UK/Europe, 31st in Australia). That means Watch_Dogs has had five days to boost console sales while in most regions, MK8 has only had two. I would not be remotely surprised if Wii U sales actually exceed PS4's next week, especially since MarioKart titles tend to have an extremely slow burn in sales.
Meanwhile, as far as the secondary-console thing, I think Nintendo are only looked at as a secondary console by "core" gamers, who are only a portion of Nintendo's audience... and besides that, I don't think it's a bad thing if those people still end up buying the Wii U.
