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naruball on 16 July 2016
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tak13 said:
naruball said:

I know, right?

Anyway, they said the same thing about Gamecube, always citing a picture that lumped handheld and homeconsole sales together.

This is not surpsing at all. Making games that flopped, taking a loss for some time with each wiiu sold, R&D, advertising (yes, they did as much people like to deny this) and poor sales overall meant they actually lost money with wiiu.

Edit: People keep saying how well 3ds is doing, but it's not. If you look at the software sales everywhere but in Japan, the 3ds is not selling much software at all. It's always, ps4/xbone and once in a while you see a wiiu or 3ds game. It used to so different with the ds dominating the charts with evergreen titles.

lol It was never sold at a loss how it would lose money? And for a 21.74m selling hardware, its software sales were pretty high...

 

Which games? As for the poor sales... There is something good with them, since wii u was being sold at a loss, if it was selling way better it would lose more money and I'm not sure if the software sales would be in a extend to offset them, especially providing that there was no third party support!

 

As for the edit part, that's a frustrating downplaying! What do you mean by that?  It's always ps4/xbone just in the UK ( but it in the USA, is expected since we get only a top ten an that with multiplatform games sales combined, in single skus you see 3ds titles and not lately released ) , lol you say everywhere do you watch german charts for instance? Or how you feel about yokai watch slaying uncharted 4 in Spain charts?

 

Is smash bros 3DS selling 3m in the USA a flop? Which ps or especially xbox exclusive can  match Mario kart 7 or Pokemon x/y sales nowadys ?  You could  have word your opinion  differently, no offense but as is now it manifests something suspicious, you draw a negative picture with things that are invalid!

Yeah it used to be different with the beasty ds but that was an anomaly... You can guess why! Before ds it was GBA.... Eh? Anywise, 3ds has almost the same attach rate with ds while destroys gba in that  part!

You can't say that a handheld platfrom with 60m hardware sales and 300m software sales, isn't selling much software, based on selective use of sales charts and individual cases!

Ok, dude. This is rich coming from you. You paint Ninty in a positive picture in every single post I've see from you. So, let's not be hypocrites, shall we? You probably find this "suspicious" because I don't paint your favourite company the way you want.

"if it was selling way better it would lose more money". Hardcore fans will twist anything bad into something postive, I guess. 

A simple google search would tell you that wiiu was sold at a loss when it launched and for some time after that. Please, don't spread misinformation.

Yes, I see all the charts. Ps4 games dominate them. You're looking at the exceptions because of your confirmation bias.

"based on selective use of sales charts and individual cases". The irony is strong with this one.