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2013 Winner?

Vita 255 40.09%
 
WiiU 284 44.65%
 
About Even 55 8.65%
 
Dreamcast 30 4.72%
 
Virtual Boy 12 1.89%
 
Total:636

Sure, but comparing Wii U to PS4 and Nextbox? Man, that will be brutal for poor Wii U... Against the vita it at least somehow holds up... :



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OdinHades said:
Sure, but comparing Wii U to PS4 and Nextbox? Man, that will be brutal for poor Wii U... Against the vita it at least somehow holds up... :


How do you know that? Nintendo has yet to bring their big guns. So I´d wait for the E3 to make such assumtions. And neither Microsoft nor Sony have the competence to make killer apps like Nintendo.



AndrewWK said:
OdinHades said:
Sure, but comparing Wii U to PS4 and Nextbox? Man, that will be brutal for poor Wii U... Against the vita it at least somehow holds up... :


How do you know that? Nintendo has yet to bring their big guns. So I´d wait for the E3 to make such assumtions. And neither Microsoft nor Sony have the competence to make killer apps like Nintendo.



exactly, in gaming world we have to wait about 2-3 years to see how things will go. People judge way to quick. Look at 3DS, it failed right? Of course not, it looked that way cuz of sales, When Vita was announced i saw alot of people it could take over 3DS, nobody expected a year later it be losing by 25mil. Same with PS3, horrible launch but came back and will be in 2nd between M$ and Nintendo!



Is it possible to see who voted for which option ? Because 232 people that have voted for the vita so far will look like clowns by the end of the year.



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"Wii are legion, for Wii are many"

I voted Dreamcast, I still need to pick one up.



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tbone51 said:
AndrewWK said:
OdinHades said:
Sure, but comparing Wii U to PS4 and Nextbox? Man, that will be brutal for poor Wii U... Against the vita it at least somehow holds up... :


How do you know that? Nintendo has yet to bring their big guns. So I´d wait for the E3 to make such assumtions. And neither Microsoft nor Sony have the competence to make killer apps like Nintendo.



exactly, in gaming world we have to wait about 2-3 years to see how things will go. People judge way to quick. Look at 3DS, it failed right? Of course not, it looked that way cuz of sales, When Vita was announced i saw alot of people it could take over 3DS, nobody expected a year later it be losing by 25mil. Same with PS3, horrible launch but came back and will be in 2nd between M$ and Nintendo!

The 3DS sold more with the $250 price point than the Vita did.  The 3DS was selling no less than 60,000 a week and that's when the 3DS had no worthwhile games.  Once the price drop hit, the 3DS started to sell 200,000+ and hasn't let up until the last few months, and that's still with nothing worth getting for the system.  It wasn't until Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land came out that there was anything that could even be plausable as worthwhile.

Good games aren't what's going to help the Vita or Wii U sell.  It's price that will move units.  Price is way too high compared to their competitors.

carlos710 said:
Is it possible to see who voted for which option ? Because 232 people that have voted for the vita so far will look like clowns by the end of the year.

Let's talk again when the Wii U loses in sales at the end of the year.  It's got a head start, but the Vita with its price drop will make it catch up.  Sony really needs to do a price drop in the west if they want to put it out of reach.



Mr.Y said:

I voted Dreamcast, I still need to pick one up.

I voted DC too *high five*

Best console ever! Gutted I've just about finished selling everything I have for it :(



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Trunkin said:
Wow. You guys really have no faith in the Vita if you actually believe that the Wii U is gonna outsell it this year.


Your right we don't lol. The Wii U sold more in 3 months than Vita's first 10 months or so, so yes we believe when the games come Wii U will sell more.

This is a sweet form of cherrypicking :) You are aware that if you align the launch of both consoles, Vita was doing 50% better than Wii U is doing at this point? But I guess that such a fair comparison wouldn't support your argument... Tells much about it :P

This is going to be a great competition between these two platforms, but Vita has the upper hand so far, because Vita games actually ARE COMING, while Wii U games MAY COME OR NOT in 2013.

Ok, if your going to accuse me of cherry picking your going to have to explain how that's unfair comparsion, otherwise your claim is unsupport and in vaild. Also your cherry picking a stat to bloster your point too, so dont be a hypocrite. Want a fair metric to compare them? ok, how about the fist three months after launch, by the end of Feb. 2012 Vita had sold 1.2 million, and Wii U sold over 3 million, there that is fair, and you lose again.

BTW, writing in caps don't help convince people your right, it makes you look angry and crazy.  Actually we know good Wii U games are coming, Monster Hunter just released for one.

Wii U got better out of the gate, but then dived much worse than Vita did and at this point is doing much worse. When talking about 2013 sales this is an important factor, because it tells us about the momentum the consoles have and Vita is ahead in this department. The sales from week 1-3 aren't as important at this point as the momentum. You were suggesting in your argument as if Wii U was really wiping the floor with Vita, while it's clearly not the case. Vita has been selling more steady than Wii U and is clearly rising right now, while there is no sign on the horison for Wii U to get out of the 30k/week slump. There will be some games or the West released soon and the pricecut will come a week before them, which will also bolster sales. I really doubt Nintendo will cut the price earlier than November.

@bold - that's just your opinion. I'm strenghtening the fact that Nintendo fans are constantly ignoring and maybe that's just making you angry? The games are coming, but WHEN is the big question here and the most important factor. Will they come in 2013? Who can really tell? I mean, they have to throw something out for Christmas to try and fight PS4/X720, but considering how they are struggling with Pikmin 3 I can easily see many games getting delayed as well or Nintendo strongly embracing the patch option with giving us sub-Nintendo quality unfinished games. Vita on the other hand has games announced and getting released all the time now (especially in Japan). We have a decent release calendar in the West. At the same time the Wii U games are in the same pack as the yet unannounced Vita games (like the next Sony Bend game, AC: Rising Phoenix, next CoD, MGSVita: Phantom Pain, etc.), so games that nobody is including in the calculations so far - and for a reason. There is a huge difference between a game getting released soon and a game just being announced for some distant future.

And seriously, yet another port of MH3 is a good game? Seriously? Now, when MH4 is going to be released soon and everyone has already played this game on Wii or 3DS? You think it will help Nintendo sell more than a handful of consoles? If it was MH4, it would be huge, but it's just an old port and I can't see it being a major factor driving hardware sales. I think that even MH fans, while waiting for MH4, would rather buy a much cheaper Vita for SS and God Eater 2 rather than Wii U and yet another copy of the old MH3.

1.Are you really trying to claim the Wii U's sales dived worse than the Vita's lol? I suggest you go look at the first 6 weeks of both consoles sales after launch, and see how much your wrong about that. Vita week one sales in Japan were 325,000, the next week 74,000, and then drop even further to a low of 12,000 by feb.28th, 2012 , and a the pathern followed in the other regions. The Wii U's drop wasn't that bad as Vita because it maintined sales in the six figures until January  of 2013. Vita sold steadily after the bottom fell out of its sales after the first two weeks, and it only sold like 20,000 worldwide for most of the its first, the Wii U is doing better than that worldwide right now by about 10,000 each week, so its not quite how you say it is. Yes, Vita is rising now, but its because of the price cut, and not these games like you claim. Do you think these games are going to outsell Uncharted, or Persona 4 Golden? No, they won't.

2.No, I'm not angry, I'm just laughing at your assertion that these Vita games are going to sell the system so much better in the West. Speaking of Pikmin 3, its has release date in Japan for this spring, so that's not the distant future. Also, everything saying about when games will relase or if Nintendo will delay games, is just opinion as well. Most people pretty know what games are going to be annouced at E3, the new Smash Bros, the New Mario Kart, and the Mario Universe, which will crush the sales of any of those Vita games. Your glancing over the fact most of the Vita games are just waterdown console games with broken contorls, like the first Cod games, and the Resistance game,so those new ones arent likley to move many systems.  There are Wii U games besides MW3, like Lego City, and Need for Speed, and yes MW3 is a good game,because the quality of game has nothing to do with sales, look at Aliens:Colonial Marines or Duke Nukem Forever lol.

1. Buahahahaha!! xD Did you really do that? Are you comparing the sales of Wii U that was available world wide to Vita available in Japan only? Let's just keep it serious. Yes, Wii U's sales dived worse than the Vita's and there is no "lol" here. Just compare the periods when both consoles are available world wide and remember that Wii U is falling down from a higher level - it got a better start after all.

If you claim that Vita is doing well just because of the price cut and not the games, please explain to me why it sold more in the week when Soul Sacrifice was released than in the week the price cut took place? Price cut is nothing without the games, that's why the Wii U price cut in UK failed to move systems. And yes, Soul Sacrifice should outsell Persona 4 Golden quite easily. It's already at almost 50% of its sales and it isn't even released in EU and NA.

2. You still don't get it. Read again what I wrote in capital letters in my original post. An EXISTING Vita game will sell more systems than an ANNOUNCED Wii U game. Get it? Vita will actually get those games. They will be out there on the shelves and on PSN. Wii U games? Nobody knows, they can easily slip to 2014, since Nintendo is really struggling right now and it is yet to prove to us, that it embraced making HD games. Pikmin 3 has no release date, Q2 is not a release date. September 18th 2013 for Killzone Mercenary - that's what a release date looks like. Moreover, Q2 starts in a week, so are you really that sure that Nintendo will manage to release it in Q2? Cause I kinda feel that it's 50-50 and the game can easily slip into Q3 or very, very late Q2 (last weeks of June) at best.

Remember. No announcement will sell consoles, that's why Nintendo Direct announcing X had no effect on sales. I don't care what Nintendo announces on E3, it's what they can release in 2013 that matters. Vita has a really nice schedule this year with new games being added to the list almost on a daily basis. Now we're waiting for the the 28th  and the SEGA announcement and there will be yet another Vita game to add to the list. There are even two very exciting exclusive games announced for the traditionally weak summer period. On the other hand, so far Wii U has pretty much nothing.

By MW3 you meant MH3? I know it's a good game when talking about a game, but it's not a good game when talking about moving hardware. It may be a good MH game, but I don't see it moving Wii Us. It's really surprising that Nintendo is so ridiculously close with crapcom and still they only got a stupid MH3 port for Wii U and not MH4, which would move hundreds of thousands of consoles. MH4 for Wii U in August would make this whole conversation redundant, but as it is - Vita has a chance to finish this brawl on top in 2013.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

carlos710 said:
Is it possible to see who voted for which option ? Because 232 people that have voted for the vita so far will look like clowns by the end of the year.

You must be proud of yourself, since you've already managed to achieve this with this post.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

Scisca said:
carlos710 said:
Is it possible to see who voted for which option ? Because 232 people that have voted for the vita so far will look like clowns by the end of the year.

You must be proud of yourself, since you've already managed to achieve this with this post.

you sure 'bout that? XP