26th March 2016 - Weekly Hardware Sales on VGChartz

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Swordmasterman said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Smartphones may have "stolen" a part of casuals but they could explain a progressive drop, while Ninty portables suffered a very sudden and heavy drop at the end of DS/DSi life, before 3DS even launched, and 3DS, outside of its highest peaks, couldn't repeat on average its "dad"'s success. Something went wrong in the transition, and not only the bad 3DS launch, that Ninty was actually able to fix quite quickly (and "killing" the equally eccessively expensive PSV in the cradle with that huge early 3DS price drop), also before it, mobiles alone cannot be the sole cause. XBOne does decently as a second ranking home console, Wii U is now doing decently as a niche one, like PSV is a decent niche portable (but it's just niche instead of a true competitor due to Sony's huge mistakes with it), but 3DS is doing quite disappointingly as a market leader. IMVHO opinion, Ninty's mistake was the same with Wii U and 3DS, killing their predecessors too early before the new launches, tarnishing two brands that it had instead to keep alive and kicking until the end, as it wanted to use them in their successors.

2 Different markets, being the Market Leader, and selling something are 2 Different things, 60 Millions is a good number for a Handheld, and selling over 100 Thousands a week, also is a good number, Xbox One, is the second console in a much more Main Stream Market, 3DS, is doing well, Xbox One, is doing a little less than the Expected, for a console that had a Price Drop, and will launch a Exclusive game  next week, Plus, had the rights of Marketing of The Division, the best selling game of March, and of the Year (until now).

I agree that with the growth of mobiles we can't ask 3DS to sell the same as DS, but DS sudden drop makes me think that managing better the transition both DS and 3DS could have sold some millions more. Same for Wii U. XBOne isn't the best selling second ranking console ever, actually it's quite far from that goal, but it's doing "decently" (surely not "excitingly") if we consider how many horrible mistakes MS committed. Just this, I have no unreasonable expectations from Ninty, but I think it could have done better, while for XBOne I think the product isn't bad, but MS can consider itself lucky for its sales, if MS paid all its mistakes they could be far worse (and I don't blame Mattrick, he just was Ballmer's puppet).