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DélioPT on 17 April 2015
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SpokenTruth said:
DélioPT said:


When sales start declining, that same decline will take more time for the console to be "dead" to the market, if the starting point is up there.
When your starting point for decline is Wii U like levels, then the decline will happen rapidly.

If Wii U's plateau is still dangerously low, then yes, the growth needs to be substantial for the console to have a better chance of lasting in the market more time.

And how well did a rapid growth work for Wii?  You can't proclaim that rapid growth is the only way to prevent a rapid decline. 

Can't you just be happy it's at least up YoY without some arbitrary 'substantial' value along with it?  It's up.  It's growing.  Given everything the system has been up against, it's damn near a miracle to be up at all.

But i am happy that things are better now than in 2014 and 2013, aswell.
But i can't just look at that and ignore the fact that Wii U sales were low to begin with and are still low for it's own good. Do you really think Nintendo ignores this?

You bring up a good point with Wii and does go in line with what i said on how "well" Nintendo supports it's consoles after the system sellers are out.
The fall we saw during the last two years of Wii could have been avoided or at least minimized but Nintendo stopped supporting the console with system sellers or even non-system sellers. You basically had what? Zelda SS, MP 9 and some other game to try and lift sales or sustain the fall.
And Wii still had a lot of support from 3rd parties.

Wii U will see Nintendo "bail out" on the console in preparation for next gen, with barely any games from 3rd parties to try and sustain the natural fall of a aging console.

At least Wii had room for falling in sales. Wii U doesn't have that luxury because sales haven't - and most likely won't - gone up enough. And with the exception of Zelda, it used it's system sellers.