Good question, probably the combo of Uncharted 2 and the Call of Duty craze. Price cuts helped too.

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And due to the economic crisis, retailers added their own excellent offers based on it too: for example here in Italy I saw an Euronics leaflet with the PS3 500GB GTA V bundle, plus The Last of Us added by the shop discounted by 110 euros, from 359 euros to 249 total price. That's a 30% discount, that makes the price of the shop's enhanced bundle still 50 euros lower than the plain GTA V bundle list price.

Notice the PS3 board doesn't have any launch titles, because the consoles didn't already need "saving" before launch. So Mario and ZombiU have no place on that board. Virtual Console is a weird one. Hell, Lego City would make some sense, while Wonderful 101 makes none, and I don't know why it extends beyond the next goal. If I made it, it would look like this:

Rayman Legends
Lego City
E3 Direct
Pikmin 3
Price Cut
Mario 3D World

And even that much is a stretch, since most people knew better than to expect Rayman Legends (even back when it was an exclusive) or Pikmin 3 to really change the Wii U's fortunes.

The Wii U board simply has no business being so crowded when Lair and Heavenly Sword came out in summer 2007 and Uncharted in November, and those are the only 3 in the first year. Why would the Wii U have two launch titles and eight first-year events or releases? And Wonderful 101, but no Lego City or Wind Waker? Really?

Nice analysis of the Wii U board in particular, really I think they were both made more for fun and mild trolling and as a result they both have flaws like you said.

As for Wii U board being so crowded? I suppose some people are more impatient when it comes to dooming console launches and their agenda is made clearer.    

theres been quite a few weeks where PS3 has topped Vita this year. Last of Us week for one.

I'm sure it topped Vita by A LOT in every single week this year .

I agree that it's more for laughs than anything, and I can laugh at Nintendo and its fans' blunders plenty -- that's why I offered my own version, rather than rejecting the concept entirely. I just think they ought to be somewhat consistent and logical at least, because it's funnier when I can say, "Yeah, haha, that didn't really pan out," than when I say, "Wonderful 101 -- wtf? ...Really?"

Maybe my sense of humor is just wrong for this kind of joke though.

I don't get it... on the vgchartz page we have this



And on the first page of the topik we got different numbers.

Adjustements on the main page of the website and title of this thread ?

OP too lazy to adjust the HW table. The VGC front page did have that 300K number for 360, but it got changed quite quickly.