Bofferbrauer2 said:
PS4 will most probably outsell the PS3... but I doubt that PS4&Xbox ONE will outsell PS360. He's also right when he says that both cater to the exact same audiences that their predecessors do - the only broadening is the addition of VR now. There is no constant decline, Wii sold better than it's predecessors and no, I don't accept the excuse that it's an "anomaly". The Wii U failed because it was a huge mess. Very poorly marketed and executed, with a gamepad that looked extremly clunky (it's imo much less clunky than it looks, though) and came at a bad time, trying to imitate the success of the Wii when it was clear that those people moved on to other devices, mostly smartphones, some to other consoles. But even with the bad timing, if it was marketed and executed better, it could have outsold the Gamecube and probably the N64. And by the look of it, the Switch will easely outsellthe Wii U, possibly even this year alone if the stock problems gets resolved or easened, so no decline here either. And yeah, Nintendo is always trying to bring some new things to the table, which can possibly attract a wider audience. It worked out fabulously on the Wii, failed miserably on the Wii U and seems to do well again with the Switch. |
Ofcourse it's an anomoly. SNES sold less than NES. N64 sold less than SNES. Gamecube sold less than N64. Wii U sold less than Gamecube.
Wii is the oly outlier, barring that Nintendo's home consoles have steadily declined with every new generation, and the people who bought the Wii did not stick around post that one console, and Nintendo consoles are back to following their trajectory.
Switch is in a weird spot as it's trying to attract Nintendo's handheld audience as well, so it might do better than Wii U but we have to see if it being priced higher than the average Nintedno handheld will hold people back from it.
