Switch overtakes total PS4 sales in Japan, in less than half the time

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linkink said:

MasonADC said:

Impressed, that they are doing their job in a poor way? Wii u launched with an ok 2d mario game, and then the next huge game was a year later. That's horrible for a system that doesn't already have momentum. Atleast when that happened to the Switch, it had mid tier titles to back it up. What was in 2013 for the wii u besides Pikmin 3? Honest question, I seriously can't remember.  

It  had mario 3d world, zelda wind waker remaster, and New super luigi. It doesn't matter if you think it's a ok 2D mario, it was the sequel to one the best selling games ever in japan. 

New Super Mario Bros. U - December 8, 2012
New Super Luigi U - July 13, 2013
Wind Waker HD - September 26, 2013
Super Mario 3D World - November 21, 2013

If your next big game is coming 5 months after your console released, that's just bad. This was a problem during the entire life cycle of Wii U, months of software droughts. Even if it was a interesting hardware (for Japan, at least), and even if it had good software, that doesn't matter if they are released months apart of each other, killing any momentum that Wii U needed to have to succeed.

It didn't fail in Japan for being a home console - it failed because of terrible software droughts. Just like it did everywhere.