Things This Gen You Didn't Expect

[Ganoncrotch]

oniyide said:

Ganoncrotch said:
Absolutely did not expect Microsoft to show off backwards compatibility with some X360 titles onto the X1, I literally would have put that to being impossible looking at the differences between the X360 and X1 systems.

I didn't expect the Wii-U to be the failure that it was.... I mean, as soon as it was shown off, I knew it was going to be a disaster, but in the previous generation with the Wii being the monster of sales which it was... I have no idea how Nintendo went from a 100m+ selling machine down to a 10m machine, people always point to Sony going from PS2 to the lower sales of the PS3 as a massive drop off but the PS3 managed to sell around 50% of the units of the PS2, but the Wii-U has issues selling 10% of what Nintendo managed with the Wii.

I think at the end of the day people cared more about the wiimote than actual Nintendo stuff

The later years of the Wii did actually show a pretty bad decline in Nintendo software... or more so there was some good stuff coming for it, but at that point it was mostly used as a platform for half baked games hoping to just sell a few hundred K copies because the machine was statistically in more homes and even if the games were duff they were still more likely to sell on that console than a X360/PS3

I just mean I think the drop off the wii-u suffered was sort of in effect at the end of the Wii life, where the PS2 was still a very strong seller all during its lifetime, the PS2 was selling until the PS3 reveal and price tag made people stop and gasp... but the Wii had slowed a good deal before the Wii-u was shown.