Lets face it: 3DS is Wii U's worst enemy

[oniyide]

Soundwave said:

oniyide said:

I see what you're saying but is it really fair to compare software sales of 3ds to Wii U? Its not like it was released 2 years earlier? or it has a MUCH bigger install base. I dont think you could draw conclusions from that. What should be compared is the actual system predecessors. Wii vs. Wii U. DS vs. 3DS and what we see is that there is a massive drop in the series numbers across both systems. 

IMHO i think this is just another "reason" to try and justify the low sales of WIi U. There is no justification it might be time to accept that people simply dont think the WIi U is a good system and just enjoy it for however long its availalble.

It isn't a bad system. 

It's simply very hard to sell a console when you don't have third party support. 

The only system with poor-to-mediocre third party support that's ever sold even reasonably well (as in above 30 million LTD) was the N64, and a lot of people probably thought that was going to have a good number of games because the NES and SNES did, so there was no reason to think otherwise (not many people especially in the days before the internet would've known that CDs and cartridges meant no third party support for Nintendo). 

The only other example is the Wii which had the lightning-in-a-bottle concept of motion gaming before anyone else was really in on casual gaming. But those types of ideas combined with the perfect market timing do not happen very often and simply can't be forced out of your R&D like you're ordering a pizza. It takes a good deal of serendipity for it to all come together. 

I never said it was a bad system. PEOPLE dont think its a good system othewise it would be doing better. As a matter of fact some might argue because its not getting 3rd party support thats whats MAKING if a bad system. A Wii had 3rd party support i dont know why people keep saying it doesnt

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