| Kresnik said: Well then. If true, I guess this'll finally put to bed the age old VGChartz question "When will WiiU pass Vita in sales?" Ahhh, those were good times. Well I mean they weren't, you got shit on for being a Vita owner, but there were so many threads and everyone making crazy predictions. Such as this one, before WiiU launched, where people were predicting such gems as WiiU passing Vita in pre-orders alone (any reason WiiU won't dominate in Japan, right?) Then there was this one, after launch, where people were convinced WiiU's poor sales were just a lack of games and not a compelling product and basically laughed out at Sensei. Or this doozy, where people had seen the abysmal WiiU first year and continued to predict it'd happen by the end of 2013. Thankfully, we started getting responses in these threads of "never" as people begun to realise both consoles were failures. (It's a shame people can keep voting on polls indefinitely, because it really skews the results compared to how they were at the time, so you have to dig through the replies to really get an idea of what the general consensus was). Anyway, I don't really have much more to add. Of course it's a shame to see a piece of hardware sink like this, but I suppose I can't blame them for stopping manufacturing when they don't really have one truly successful market to keep making it for. I just find it amusing as a user who joined pretty much at the height of "WiiU is going to destroy Vita" threads see it come to this - both going out with a whimper, Vita winning in the end but it's such a hollow victory that no-one cares anymore. (And I know we won't truly ever know if Vita won, due to Sony stopping shipment infomation, meaning VGC is all we have to go on) |
Still peanuts compared to Johnlucas' epic failures. But I have to say; even I am shocked at how low Wii U sales are, and I was always among the more conservative in my predictions and outlook.
