Prediction: WII U Will Still be Ahead of XBOX One in 2017

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padib said:

torok said:
X1 is a healthier console because of 3rd party games. 2nd console? Almost no one gets one because keeping one console and buying games for it already takes a lot of money. After Destiny, GTA VI, BF, AC and all the big franchises are launched, X1 will destroy Wii U sales wise with ease. I don't think X1 will have trouble to outsell the Wii U LT by 2:1.

You are looking at weekly numbers, but X1 came a year later. The second year of any console beats its first easily. The first year of X1 beats the first year of the U (it already did that right now). In its second year, the Wii U is behind the X1 and just managing to outsell it marginally weekly because its biggest game was out now. After next week and Destiny, X1 will keep outselling it, even with SSBU.

All those games are coming out on PS4. Destiny being a sci-fi online shooter has more xbox vibe to it so odds are it will do well on that console, but meanwhile the U has smash.

If MK8 was single-handedly able to double the U's baseline, I think something is severely lacking in your PoV. Or maybe you don't want SSB to do so well?

It seems most of the time opinions here are based on what people want to sell well, and not on what makes sense. SSB has never sold less than 7m lifetime, even on the cube. Why would its system-selling and game-selling strength suddenly disappear now?

It makes no sense to me.

Let me word the bolded in another way. MK added 20k to the WiiU baseline every week.

Doesn't sound as impressive as your doubling quote does it? But it gives a much clearer picture.