| h2ohno said: the Wii U had far and away the best library of the 3 new systems in 2014. This would change drastically in 2015, but 2014 proved to me that a console's games have surprisingly little to do with its sales numbers in the modern world. If people were buying consoles for their games in 2014 then the PS4 wouldn't have started selling well until the following year and the Wii U would have sold far better that year. Mario Kart 8 alone should have sold a bazillion Wii Us. Momentum and PR mattered much more than games at this point. |
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Whoever got a PS4 knew all big AAA third parties were going to be released on it
As well as many Japanese games, RPGs and so on
And Sony on first party output, although they wasn't as prestigious as they are now. I can't feel they were huge selling points at hat moment, today for the PS5 they surely are
Wii U was fairly weak for its age, the supposed big library you are implying was mostly PS3 ports
If Wii U was closer to PS4 in power it would have sold better, because more third parties would be willing to releases their games on it. Not huge numbers, but closer to Xbone numbers instead of the disaster that was the Wii U
Remember PS5 presentation? There were big games on it still yet to be released 2 years later. Consoles are a long term investment, as we cannot play that many games on the same time is ok to have one or two games to play a year if you know lots of games are coming anyway
That's why Playstation, unit sales-wise, is likely never going to fail as long home console business still a thing
