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

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linkink said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah, it is true they banked too hard on NSMBU, and they also undermined it by releasing NSMB2 just months earlier, so people had just gotten their fix and didn't wanna buy a crappy $300 system for another dose right afterwards.

But the third party support ultimately didn't matter; nobody had any reason to buy a Wii U for inferior versions of the same games they could get on the PS3/360 they already owned. So its short-lived third party support had no system selling power.

So Wii U ultimately didn't get any system selling software until it had been out long enough to have earned a reputation in the eyes of the mass market as a failed system with no games. 

The Switch, on the other hand, is a totally different story. It exploded out of the gate with the killer app of BOTW and followed up with further megatons like Splatoon 2 and Odyssey within the following 8 months. Software wise, Switch's output is far superior to Wii U.

its far superior because it took wii u games. you are also forgetting mario kart 8 delux which is massive. nobody is saying switch doesn't have a better lineup, it obviously does, but even if wiiu line up was better it was a console nobody desired. I mean all you have to do, is look at sales within 2 months it was selling like a dead console. even if it had mario kart it's first 8 months, i don't think results would have changed much.

I think pretty much everybody agrees the Wii U was unappealing, horribly designed hardware.

All we're saying is that Switch's success is inextricably bound to its strong output of megaton software.