So I was looking at Watch Dogs Sales and.....

[snowdog]

Unfortunately it's going to bomb on the Wii U. If the Wii U SKU had released at the same time as the others it would have done okay thanks to the GamePad features if they had marketed it properly. Due to it being a Ubisoft game you'll see the other versions being around £14.99 by the time the Wii U version comes out at full price and there'll be bugger all marketing for it to speak of.

Namco Bandai/Slightly Mad Studios are going to see a similar sort of thing happen with Project CARS too, except that the PC, PS4 and Xbox One SKUs aren't going to sell well at launch to start with - they're releasing the game in November competing against the likes of CoD, GTA V, Assassin's Creed Unity, FIFA 15, Halo, Forza, DriveClub and The Crew.

So not only are they going to be competing against the biggest selling franchises in video game history, they're also competing against three driving/racing sims too. They would have been better off releasing the game early next year when there isn't so much competition, if I'd had invested in this game with an idea of garnering a share of the profits I'd be a bit pissed off with the release date.

And as for the difference in sales between the PS4 SKU and the Xbox One SKU you're going to see plenty of publishers taking notice, you might even see the Xbox One struggling to get third party support during the next year or two. The majority of people refuse to see how much trouble the Xbox One is in, I'm convinced it's overtracked on here...you won't find more than 4.6m Xbox Ones in homes worldwide. Microsoft's silence on sales is speaking volumes. In fact, it's not too far away from being as much as a flop as the Wii U was when it first launched. Both consoles did over 3m during their launch periods and both consoles' sales dropped off a cliff going into the launch window and beyond. This time last year the Wii U had sold something like 3.5m (please correct me if I'm mistaken, I'm going off my memory here so I will stand to be corrected!). So there's not much difference between the sales of both consoles, launches aligned.

Whenever I mention on forums that the Xbox One has been a flop so far people think I'm trolling or insane, but it's only been doing 'okay' in the US so far and has been an unmitigated flop in Europe. It's in trouble, but for some reason the gaming media aren't picking up on it at all.

The worst thing is that Microsoft don't have anywhere near enough system selling IPs to shift consoles - Gears, Halo and Forza. And that's pretty much it. Halo is coming before Christmas, as is a second Forza game. And that leaves Gears of War. It really isn't looking good tbh.