Zekkyou said:
Azzanation said:
Because Hardware Sales don't always lead to success. There will always be a fanbase that will buy anything Sony just like there is for Nintendo etc. However apart from the Hard core Sony fans who actually brought one. The Vita did not appeal to everyone and most likely cost Sony $$$ than profiting them. Sony could give the Vita away to everyone for $1 and have it sit above the PS4 in sales, that wouldn't make it a successful platform. Definitely not in a business stand point.
Also those comparing the WiiU to the Vita, one thing needs to be said is that both Hardware systems didn't sell, we know that, however WiiU software still sold well (Mainly 1st Party) where as Vita's software didn't sell (except for a couple exceptions)
So the WiiU would not have hurt Nintendo as much as the Vita would have hurt Sony |
Some WiiU titles have sold well, but the same can't be said for the WiiU's collective software sales. As of the end of June 2016, it hadn't even hit the half-way point to the GameCube.
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Well the Gamecube did have the best attach rate of any Nintendo console to date, including the NES and Wii. The Gamecube was just shy of matching the N64's software sales (209M GC vs 225M N64) while the GC sold 11 Million less consoles than the N64.
For the WiiU you can't discount that the majority of software sold on the console is 1st party. Just by looking at the top ten software sellers that Nintendo lists for the WiiU and adding them up you can see that they make up almost 50% of WiiU's total software sales. And that's just the top ten, Nintendo's other WiiU releases probably add up too.
