Why is the GameCube selling better than the Wii U???

[platformmaster918]

zorg1000 said:

platformmaster918 said:
GC was cheaper and it had more residual Nintendo fans from their glory days. Basically that number of hardcore Nintendo fan of the 80s who buy new Nintendo systems is lessening every gen. Wii had the casuals so it's hard to tell, but now we see again the decline in fans of their franchises who are willing to invest in new stuff. Their holdover is pretty good but they can't generate new fans for whatever reason. There are exceptions to be sure such as my neighbors who have two small children who have a WiiU and never owned a system themselves but these are rare and the larger movement is less and less newbies each gen excluding Wii. NES 60, SNES 40, N64 32, NGC 21, WiiU 18 hopefully?

No its not the number of hardcore Nintendo fans leaving, it's the number of non-hardcore Nintendo leaving.

The drop from NES to SNES mostly occured in America and was due to Nintendo giving Sega a 2 year head start which allowed them to build momentum and launch their killer app (Sonic) before SNES came to the market. Sega also had a successful ad campaign proclaiming Nintendo to be for kids, which Nintendo pretty much admitted to when they censored blood out of Mortal Kombat.

The drop from SNES to N64 mostly occurred in Japan due to losing the big RPG and fighting fanbases. Games like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest moved onto PS which consisted of 40% of the SNES top 10 games and the Street Fighter fanbase moved onto the big 3D fighters of the mid 90's like Tekken and Virtua Fighter which were on the competitors consoles.

The drop from N64 to GC mostly occured in America due to losing their strong FPS fanbase. GoldenEye was basically the Call of Duty of the late 90's and they lost that crowd to Xbox and Halo. With the shooter fanbase gone, other genres like sports and racing took a hit as well due to those games typically sharing a similar demographic.

It was the loss of non-Nintendo gamers that contributed to Nintendo's decline gen over gen.

choose to see it how you like I'm merely observing the trend.  Nintendo gamers grow up and some keep buying but some don't.  I have a couple roommates who nostalgically look back to their NGC and N64 and will defend the company and of course play with me on my WiiU to this day but they don't invest in new stuff.  It's just those people who go on Facebook and talk about how fun N64 was but now maybe will buy a 3DS but have moved on in many cases.  Take that as anecdotal if you wish but it represents a larger trend.