Will the NX outsell the WiiU?

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Shamankings said:

Soundwave said:
If we remove the temporary Wii craze which brought in an influx of casuals that have since left ...

NES - 62 million
SNES - 49 million
N64 -33 million
GameCube - 22 million
Wii U - 14 million

This is actually a fairly consistent and frightening drop. There's only so many Nintendo faithful left.

Denial overflow.

Ok then, if we exclude the casual craze of ps2, ps consoles are declining since the first ps.

This isn't a fixed fanbase that grew smaller. People are always flowing from one system to the other, with not every snes/N64/GC buyer getting a previous gen nintendo system. Last gen wii was the absolute winner for gamers and no ammount of denial will change that.

Perhaps but there is a difference between your worst homeconsole selling 90 million and the first installment at 102 million and the drop of Nintendo. After all the difference is only 12.1%. Especially considering the PS4 is outselling the PS3 and the gap keeps on growing. To put it into perspective the constant decline of the Nintendo console fanbase shows that the nearest competitors offer better products really. I wouldn´t call Sony a competitor anymore, since Nintendo doesn´t want to compete with Playstation anymore (because they got their ass kicked in N64 and GC era) .

I doubt the Wii was the real winner for gamers last gen, most people eventually disliked motion controls and after the first 4 years where over the system died pretty quickly. But the 1st party games where great for the Wii though the lack of HD quickly cathed up with Nintendo. It made sure the Wii could never sell more than the PS2 really. The NX has the Wii U as predecessor that also doesn't boe well for Nintendo, while Sony's legacy is way brighter, long cycles, great third party support and making at least one GOTY per gen.