RazorDragon said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Nintentacle said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
yeah it wont reach wii |
Maybe not the Wii's peak, but Sony was dealing with actual dedicated gamers all the way to casuals. The Wii's sales were front-loaded from cateringto non-gamers which is why there is an issue with third party sales on a console that sold 100 M. Sony will reach those numbers over a longer period of time but will enjoy longer lasting success with a more varied library of games.
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1. The only first party game on the PS4 that casuals could enjoy is LittleBigPlanet 3, IMO.
2. I wouldn't say Wii's sales were front-loaded. It sold well its whole life-cycle up until 2012.
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1. Casuals play Assassins Creed, COD and other games as well. NIntendo catered the Wii U to a new market that no one had cracked. Non-gamers. People who don't really have the time to game. They dumbed down the console so everyone could get their hands coupled with an extremely attractive price and Wii Sports title.
Sony has only begun to start. They will have better legs as I've said before. Nintendo hasn't enjoyed 60+ m sales without third party so this was their first taste of success trying a new tactic. Sadly it was horrible for their third party sales in a traditional sense.
2. They were front loaded. It sold well from 2006 to 2010. 2011-12 were when it started dropping off the face of the earth. Once the Kinect came everyone found their next fad in 2010. People and their mothers were trying to get their hands on Kinects after 2010 just like they did with the Wii, but it was short lived.
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Except Wii only started to slow down sales when Nintendo pretty much discontinued game support in 2011. It was still selling quite well in 2010, it's much more likely that the system's sales slowed down because no new games were being released than anything else, otherwise it would've sold nothing in holiday 2010 thanks to Kinect's release.
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I think it was also because it was a standard definition console in an HD world.
