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Soundwave on 02 March 2015
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bigtakilla said:
Soundwave said:

 

There will be 9-10 really great games on the Wii U -- Mario Kart 8, Zelda U, Mario 3D World, Smash Bros, Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, and a few others that you really can't play elsewhere. Honestly in the large scheme of things this is not a lot, and not dissimilar to other Nintendo consoles plenty of people have passed over. 

The vast majority chose a Playstation over a N64, even though it had Mario 64, Zelda: OoT, GoldenEye (virtually three straight GOTYs in a row), and most ignored the GameCube even though it had many great games too. I don't really see Wii U being much different. 

Bolded has little to do with whether the Wii U will beat the Gamecube. The N64 did beat the Gamecube... By a lot. 


The N64 had weaker competetion to deal with though ... Sega crippled themselves with the Saturn, which just left Sony and the Playstation, and the Playstation actually had a very slow start. 

People also thought the N64 would naturally be just like the NES and SNES ... see back in those crazy days Nintendo was synonmous with having the most games (read: third party support). People didn't understand that choosing cartiridges over CDs meant that most of the third party games would go to Sony as a result. 

The SNES was like the Playstation 4 of its day. 

When people started to realize the lack of content on the N64, sales slowed, but initially sales were explosive. It's really a shame Nintendo f*cked up on the format choice so badly, I think they would've won that gen running away otherwise.