Reggie explains why the WiiU underperformed.

[Goodnightmoon]

BMaker11 said:

Goodnightmoon said:

Yeah its kind of hilarious how in order to support that pov you need to completely ignore the most succesful generation that a company has ever had in the industry with 250m of dedicated devices sold. Is also ironic the way they are supossed to be losing branch power since the beggining when all their handhelds have been very succesfull thanks to their own games, even 3DS despite having everything against it.

And how much did they sell in dedicated devices in prior gens, and this gen?

Exactly. They're on the decline outside of that one gen. I'll give the DS credit, because its due. It had some of the best games on handheld, ever. Can't say the same for Wii.

And, they are lose brand power, in terms of consoles. I think you glanced over the fact that I said "they should still make handhelds". But their consoles? They've been declining since the NES, with the exception of the Wii, whose success won't is unlikely to be repeated.

Nes - 62m
Snes + GB - 135m
N64 + GBC - 65m
GC + GBA - 100m
Wii + DS - 250m
WiiU + 3DS - 80m (When is all done)

When you combine the sales there is no pattern, no overall decline but a fluctuation.