Why do people have so much faith the in Xbox One?

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ExplodingBlock said:

 

PS3 took a long time but most of it's sales came from the second half of it's life, also XBO is no where near outselling Wii U, the gap is actually getting bigger which I stated above in the link, it doesn't matter if Wii U is tracking behind the GC right now, but really what happens in the long run, back in 2011 everyone was writting off the 3DS as a flop but now look at it, I think with Amiibos+Smash+2015 Releases+Price Drop Wii U has a good chance at doing 35m. That is pretty much exactly what Nintendo did to save the 3DS

X1 won't outsell the Wii U with current numbers. But it has a much healthier future because of the huge ammount of blockbuster with millions in advertising. Destiny is on it and it's a franchise that already started with US$ 500M of avaiable budget to make the game, its sequels and advertise it as the best thing since sliced bread. GTA V had a US$ 200M budget and is coming to X1.

3DS isn't a flop, but it isn't a DS. And its competition is the Vita, that is expensive and isn't a very competitive console outside of Japan. Wii U has to deal with two strong competitors. PS4 is ahead because Sony commited few mistakes while X1 and Wii U were full of severe mistakes. From these two, X1 was wrong only in pricing and some hardware design issues that made a slight expensive console with less power tha it could have. Wii U was wrong in power by a lot, in 3rd party relations, controller, advertising and a lot of things. In console wars, the one that isn't mistake prone gets the crown.

I'm not saying Wii U couldn't make 35M. Of course, it would need a highly unlikely PS3-like comeback. But saying it will be at 5M from X1 and almost half of PS4 doesn't makes sense. It's basically saying that with all the terrible things they did they still will do better than N64 and GC when compared with their competitor. Price drop? N64 and GC had it. Smash bros? Check. Nintendo games? A lot of them, more than the Wii U. Nothing of this things saved them of being crushed by the competions and they had power advantages and better 3rd party support to help them.