Aielyn said:
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39761/Global/ http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41224/Global/ The balance can shift. It's not a good idea to get complacent or cocky. |
It doesn't look like it can shift. Wii lost terrain because it had a bad legs caused by a weak hardware. 360 was never ahead of PS3 if you align launches. The difference was just small and it took years to PS3 to outpace it slowly. 360 suffered with a bad Japan performance and weak EU and fighted just with the US.
Right now, the competitions is beyond damned. X1 only has a fight in US, it lost EU completely and if PS4 gains traction in Japan it will outpace it even more. Wii U is pretty much done with zero thirdy party support. This time, the competition simply made to much mistakes with hardware choices. Sony biggest advantage is that they are global players, while MS is pretty much too reliant on the US alone, a price oriented market that only favored them last gen because of that.
Nintendo lost touch with the console market when they lost the 3rd party players. People want GTA, CoD, Madden, Fifa, Far Cry, AC, and so on. Just think about it. PS4 and X1 have their marketing budgets. Let's assume they are the same and that Nintendo expends the same on the Wii U. It's a fair assumption since they usually have a similar budget but even that's a bit of a stretch because Ninty isn't advertising as much as the others. So Wii U has their advertising budgets for the console and their games, as MS and Sony do. But MS and Sony can count on the 3rd parties budget: 2K will advertise GTA, Ubi will advertise AC, Activision will advertise CoD and so on. Effectivelly, MS and Sony have a total budget and advertising time way bigger than Nintendo. Close that with some exclusive ads (it's cheap, just cut royalties and give the game a main spot on the digital store and you have a deal) and these guys are everywhere on the TV and Internet.
It's not X1 and Wii U that are sick. The business model that these 2 use for consoles is sick. One relies too much in a single regions, the other thinks 3rd party games aren't important. Keeping these trend, if Sony doesn't do a big mistake, they win hands down. If they do a big mistake, they still can fight and maybe even get a win. If MS or Nintendo had done the same BS Sony did last gen they would have been blown out of water instead of selling 80M consoles.
