| Keegs79 said: I wouldn't say the hard left Nintendo either. How many million do you think are hardcore? Majority casually play and I don't mean those that jumped on the Wii bandwagon. I mean those who play games as a hobby all time but not devoted. The Nintendo fans wouldn't go elsewhere. They are with Nintendo because of Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and such. Nintendo has been always able to deliver great first party support. Nintendo's lack of branching out though with new IPs have hurt them from expanding their audience, instead it just retains fans. Sony for instance with LittlebigPlanet, The Last of Us, and Uncharted have been able to introduce the PS3 to new users who might not have been fans of God of War, Gran Turismo, KIllzone, and such. |
Well think of it like Sega. Sega burnt MANY fans with the Sega CD, Sega 32X, and Saturn. By the time the Dreamcast came, most people abandoned them. Despite this, it still managed to sell 10.6 million in 1 and a half years (with the half year being Japan only). On the other hand the Wii U has had a full worldwide release for 2 years and hasn't even hit 9 million yet.
Nintendo fans were abandoning by the N64. By the GameCube they were pretty much done. Gamers simply just don't care about Nintendo as much as they used to, and the fact Nintendo is making many weird decisions (Celda, 3D World, crap online) etc. etc. isn't helping.
Sony actually gets most of its popularity via third party titles. It doesn't really have a first party system seller outside maybe Gran Turismo and Uncharted.
