| torok said: 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. |
I always find it funny when people try to make these sorts of claims.
Look at the numbers selling per week. Wii down, PS3 and 360 up. No matter what argument you want to put forward for why the shift happened, the fact is that both PS3 and 360 sold more strongly later than they did earlier, while the Wii sold stronger earlier, and declined later. That's not just "weak hardware meant bad legs", because that doesn't explain the weaker sales of PS3 and 360 in the first few years.
This isn't about console wars. It's about complacency. Leaders risk getting complacent. Look at Nintendo's output after 2009, and compare it with their output before then - not in terms of games you might be interested in, but broad-appeal games. Wii sales disappeared because Nintendo stopped catering to the expanded audience, stopped trying to push the boundaries properly. Meanwhile, 360 and PS3 expanded their appeal beyond the shooters that were so excessively common early in their lives.
By the way, Wii U sales are stronger now than they were at any time during the period where they still had decent 3rd party support. Any argument for Wii U's sales based on third party is disingenuous.
