PS4's total software sales surpass those of Wii U

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padib said:

cheshirescat said:

padib said:
Goes to show that Nintendo sell more games, while Sony sell more consoles. Sony was able to beat Nintendo's HW sales a long time ago, but it took them a while before they matched the total SW sales.

Good job Nintendo.

It's naturally going to take longer for a system to catch up and pass another in terms of software rather than hardware, the gap isn't going to close linearly.  You only buy one console (typically) but you go on to buy several pieces of software for it.  The fact that it took a little less than a year for the ps4 to pass the wii u in software sales is impressive for sony and damming for nintendo.

I'm not sure how that logic works. So people only buy duplicates on Nintendo systems?

Sounds like a case of confirmation bias.

People don't buy all the games at once, they buy games over time, and people who own WiiU's have owned it for far more time and have had longer to buy more games. The PS4 has only been around for less than a year, there are only so many games people will buy during that time.