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

[RedKingXIII]

linkink said:

RedKingXIII said:

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.

There were other big games, tons of western thirdparty support. AC3, batman, rayman COD, and many others. it's not anywhere as bad as people make it out to be, switch has gone through droughts as well, after splatoon in april it didn't have a big game till 5 months later.

Wii U would have failed regardless even if it had something similar to the switch lineup. 

It had a good western third party support for the first year, yes. But I don't think this is relevant when we're talking about Japan. These games aren't big sellers or system sellers there. 

And at least Switch had/has medium sized titles or ports to keep the momentum going when there wasn't/is no new major titles. Wii U had nothing, basically. But yeah. I agree. Switch has software droughts. I don't think it's severe as the Wii U ones, though.