I just noticed something interesting, that maybe others have shared the same thoughts about. On the front page, I see the following articles: Wii Launch has been Disappointing, No good Vita games on release for this year, and How Sony patented their own downfall. Similar articles include how the RROD being the failure of the 360, Ps3 won't sell at all due to high price/no games, Wii will be a failure due to no HD, DS isn't hardcore enough, PSP no dual-stick, ect.....

My point being, we need to stop visiting these OMG DOOM articles. Looking back at this past HD gen, the Wii was a success, the 360 was a success, the Ps3, Psp, DS were all successes. They all had problems sure, but in the end, all sold very well respectively. These articles are just trying to get their hit counter up to become more popular for the website/author. 

In conclusion, the WIi U will be a spectacular success, the Ps3 will continue to dominate current gen consoles over 2013, and the Vita, well okay maybe that one was warrented. BUT give the Vita time I beleive it will become a lot successful than it is curently. 

You don't understand the internet. Everything is either a beast, awesome, amazing, incredible or a flop, a bomb, a bomba or dead. The words decent and good don't exist. They are boring words, thus banned from this universe. The sooner you realise this, the better.

But yes, I agree with you. We should avoid such articles, but even if some of us do, most won't. They will continue being successful at the expense of our intelligence.

Just want to hilight this and mention how amazing it is. It may not be entirely true... I think that Sony may not feel particularly "successful" with the PS3 given how much money they lost on it in its early years, not to mention losing so much of their market share from the PS2, but its software sales in the past few years have helped turn its fortunes around. I think the console has redeemed itself.

But it's very impressive for all three major companies to have been, in their own ways, successful in the same generation on almost all fronts. I don't think this has ever happened. In the end, it was a great generation for the industry as a whole, and for the major players in it individually.

Here's an internet spin for ya

Sony: utter failure. No matter how well they're doing at the moment, they'll never make their money back. Not even with Blu-ray, which is doing terrible compared to dvd. Even if it surpasses 360, who cares? The generation has ended because i say so (doesn't matter if it's profitable regardless of when it sells).

Ms: Awful. WIth all that money, they still couldn't make a non faulty console (let's forget about the slim). They lost billions on the whole RROD fiasco and they keep getting outsold by Sony. They've almost lost already. They didn't even outsell wii in the States and it's a Japanese company (let's forget how close they are now or if it has surpassed it already). Live is a ripoff (doesn't matter if we're talking about profits and not the kind of service they provide)

Ninty: ds and wii did alright, but they got lucky. The wii sold because of a gimmick, which turned out to be a fad and is selling 0 units now (100m is obviously not impressive. Let's focus on the present). The wiiu doesn't have a gimmick, so it's failing. Ds did well, but only because Ninty always dominates the handheld competition.


It doens't matter how well a company does, people who blidnly hate will find some kind of "fact" to use. Similarly, they'll defend everything, no matter how ridiculous it is just to make their favourite company look good.
You can pretty much find mistakes in any company's strategy. All you need to do is spin it and then say, "but I'm only using facts".

So, yeah. Everything and everyone is doomed

I really like this post.

I agree well said.

@OP: Duh. Everyone wants to generate as many clicks as possible. Very well written though :D

Truth is.....I generally don't click on video game articles for that reason.....I don't like to support the shabby journalism that permeates the industry.

I've said this before, but I'll say it again. It's a cycle. A gruesome and vicious cycle.

Off Topic: I don't think Wii U will be a "spectacular success." Just success would have been fine. (That's not bad though.)

The gamer, game developer, publisher, console manufacturer and investor all have very different perspectives because they want different things from the gaming industry; and even within these groups there are different perspectives based on the different desires of different "individuals". A core gamer may want something different than a mainstream gamer, a big name developer wants something different than a mid-sized or small developer, EA may want something different than Majesco, Nintendo wants something different than Sony, and a short term trader wants something different than a buy and hold investor.

When a system is doing as bad as the PS-Vita (or worse) it is fair to say that it is probably not meeting the needs of the vast majority of people across all groups of stakeholders and therefore some "doom" articles are justified; but for most other systems that is not the case. In most cases there are fare more people who are directly involved with the system that are happy with the performance (technical/sales) than are unhappy with the performance, and they tend to see it as a success. The gamer who is upset that the Wii U doesn't produce "next generation" graphics is balanced out by the gamer who likes the Wii U tablet and is happy with the affordable price, the game developer who wants to push high end technology is balanced out by the developer who wants to keep development costs reasonable, the publisher who wants to target "hardcore" gamers is balanced out by the publisher looking to target a broader market, and the investor looking to make a quick buck off of the hype surrounding a sold out console is balanced out by the long term investor who is looking for reliable growth.