Gamemaster87 said:
Hiku said:
Gamemaster87 said:
No. The NX won't launch before 2017, so Wii U will stay strong in 2016 and 2017. |
This is pretty backwards. The longer it takes for the NX to launch, the more time PS4 has to catch up. And PS4 has been selling at about twice the pace of the Wii U in Japan. Following the trend, it should pass WiiU at the end of 2016 at the latest. So there's seemingly no chance of WiiU staying ahead all the way till well into 2017. But PS4 is getting much stronger with its lineups of Japanese games in 2016, while WiiU is getting weaker on that front. As for "WiiU will remainbstrong in 2017", with the lack of new game announcements, we've seen zero signs of it even having a 2017 so far. And it hasn't really been strong at all in Japan so far. Neither has PS4. The reason 2016 looks ok for WiiU is mainly due to tittles that have been delayed from 2015. But they are running out of titles to delay into 2017. Contrary to popular belief, Nintendo have announced new WiiU games an average of 16 months in advance for the first two years. Only in 2015 have we seen this number reduced to 5 months in advance, and the two latest releases were budget titles. Next up is a port of an old game (Twilight Princess) and a console port of Pokken. Both of which we knew were in the making for a long time. Nintendo have shown no signs of having anything new in development for the WiiU for some time now.
As for the OP question, it depends on how much traction the PS4 gets with its 2016 and beyond lineup, which is looking a lot better from a Japanese gamer perspective. But if not much changes in spite of that, then it may end up being very close by the time NX launches, if it launches at the end of 2016.
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Dude, Nintendo said several times that they want to focus on games that are closer to the present so fans won't get mad if game XY gets delayed again etc.
Also: Did we know any 2016 titles in 2014? I don't think so (considering that Star Fox and Zelda were planned as 2015 titles).
Did we know of any 2015 titles in 2013? Zelda maybe, but that was it (XenobladeX was planned for 2014).
It's usual that we don't know titles that are launching 2 years later.
And to your point "Nintendo has shown no signs of having anything new in development for the Wii U for some time now": Eh, just one week ago Kimishima said that there are more Wii U games in development. This week we had the rumor that Nintendo Software Technology is working on a Free2Play amiibo game that is launching in Spring 2016. Back in September Miyamoto said that Pikmin 4 is close to completion (so it's likely a Wii U game).
As you can clearly see Nintendo has shiwn many signs and it is obvious that there will be many more games.
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In best case we can expect 2-3 more new games, maybe that Free2Play amiibo game and Pikmin 4, so definitely there will not be many more games.
So again nothing points for 2017. NX release.
