PS3 wasn't a Late Bloomer, Neither was 360 and Neither will Wii U

[oniyide]

padib said:

oniyide said:

Wii was last gen. What about now? why arent they doing anywhere near as well as they did on Wii? Why is the system on track to be the worse selling Ninty home console ever? Hell why is the 3ds doing so much worse than DS? You cant ignore present factors and try to hang on past ones, that snot proof. Somethng happened to make people lose interest, or maybe they were never that interested to begin with.

I don't disagree with you, your questions are valid. I just disagree with your previous point which was to say that few people buy Nintendo games as a general rule. We know by a few successful Nintendo consoles and their 1st party software sales that that is untrue. I just need 1 example to prove that.

As for why the U is doing badly, my theory is a lack of a strong library and a high entry point, as well as a lack of appealing novelty? I don't pretend to have the right answers, but I'm just trying to offer a possible explanation to your questions.

Maybe few is too strong of a word. I'll admit that, but IMHO Ninty games are not that popular enough to drive sales of a system to healthy sales at least not in the home console market. That has been true since the N64 and is even more so today. Portable market? sure but even that is rapidly losing ground. IMHO it just isnt enough to sustain healthy sales for 2 platforms. Not going to say they should go 3rd party, but maybe they might not need to be making home consoles anymore