Nintendo is the same way for the most part.  There is a reason we all have to wait for Zelda/Kart/Smash for so long, yet its always worth it when they come out.  This is why I stick with Nintendo because there are very few companies now that understand this concept.  Bethesda,Nintendo,2K,Naughty Dog,Rockstar.  Thats about it, everyone else is just about making $$$ fast, sometimes companies like EA put something truely great out, but for the most part they are trash. (cough..Battlefield 4).

COD sells hardware?? yes you are correct, Black Ops2 and Ghosts are doing wonders for Wii U sales.

People who buy Nintendo's avoid COD like the plague.   COD has almost the exact same attach rate on the PS4 and Xbone as the attach rate for Mario on the Wii U, yet Wii U is the Mario Box and PS4/Xbone are the multi-faseted, open world adventure, sports game, FPS,everything box.  If it was'nt for COD and GTA PS4 would'nt even exist due to how terrible Sonys 1st party games sell.  Microsoft lost so much money on Kinect R&D that they rebranded the new one as Kinect 2.0 and forced people to buy it.  These companies are on the brink of failure, meanwhile Nintendo sold so much 1st party software last gen that they have enough money to run for 30 years.

Article is written by a fanboy. Dat logic!

And yes that may seem really harsh but thats the business side reality of it all. Its the real reason why they charge us $60 a year for a subscription, because no one wants their 1st party titles.   Nintendo could charge too but they sell so much software that they don't need to ask for their customers for $60 a year.

It's not praising PS4 and Xbox One to heaven and saying Wii U is doomed, therefore it's written by a fanboy?

Great logic, there.

I like your posts, you make a lot of sense. Nintendo have the best IPs in the business, no question, and im sure that a majority of their franchises arent expensive games to make (Zelda and Metroid aside). Most Ninty games are pretty much nailed on to sell a million plus, even on a small install base such as the Wii U. Thats why i believe Nintendo can acheive modest sales like the Gamecube and still thrive because their software is very profitable.

yea and nintendo has always made great software, i would say the N64 was easily the most revolutionary, for you to say that nintendo games on wii were so much better then then every generation of nintendo consoles and wiiu is just laughable, dude it's the motion controls that sold that sold the wii,even kinect which had inferior software and controls managed 30 million, so motion controls played a huge role that generation

I agree to an extent. A game must have done SOMETHING right for it to sell so much, though it doesn't always mean how fun a game or well made the game is necessarily. It could boil down to accesibility or a number of things. But quality is largely a subjective thing, especially when it comes to gaming, so it's a tough subject to tackle. In the cases of PS4 and Xbone currently, those consoles are selling largely based on hype and their games are riding the current wave of that. If Knack came out on the 7 year old PS3 for instance, I doubt it would have outsold Mario 3D World in the UK..

The PS3 is winning the gaming industry, it has a better library of games than any other console.