| curl-6 said: Wii U did improve though. |
Both consoles have improved from earlier this year.
The 3DS had lost all its 2013 momentum in the first few months and has finally started to regain it, and this time its actually got a beefy year incoming with popular titles for both east and west. The n3DS is going to give it a much needed new baseline in Japan until it releases in the west for another boost. Funnily enough, its mostly third parties that are going to keep the system going while Nintendo works on the WiiU and some bigger hits for the n3DS. They could have focused squarely on the 3DS and completely abandoned the WiiU but then all of its investments would have been completely lost money. They have wagered their strong 3rd party support and key titles against salvaging the WiiU. I don't think that was the wrong idea for the long term.
The WiiU finally gained some momentum, and managed to push into HyWa, Bayo2, Smash, Toad, and then a seemingly good 2015 (speaking realtive here, good as in it has a lot of titles lined up). This momentum also won't be getting wasted next year if Nintendo can keep pushing out all these titles that are utterly blowing away the competition in terms of quality. The eShop has grown well as well for it, and Nintendo has really started pushing that "Nindie" idea.
Nothing will save the WiiU but its at least going to start turning a profit with hardware and software (as it finally has some), and it may finally drain its initial stock on gamepad contracts, which will let Nintendo make the thing for less in the future and possibly release a cheaper SKU. The 3DS has actual momentum going into 2015 with titles in 2015 unlike the squandered potential of 2013 to 2014. If Amiibos do them some good... we might actually start seeing Nintendo turn a decent profit. (Heck, the MK8 DLC if it sells to a good majority of the MK8 buyers will be a massive boost of money with no costs for distributions or discs or retailers.)
