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| superhippy420 said: The Wii U and 3DS numbers really aren't that shocking. In January Pokemon had already been out for 3 months and Zelda had already been out for 5 weeks. For Wii U SM3DW had been out for 5 weeks and nothing else had been released since September when Wind Waker HD came out. The software is really weak. Same goes for Xbox One and PS4. The entire lineups are 90 percent games that you can get on the older consoles and a couple of exclusives. The exclusives were nearly all sequels of things that never sell crazy numbers (Killzone/Dead Rising) and the new IP's got crappy reviews. PS4 is doing solid, but if Sony is really hurting itself by not having more supply. They need to take advantage of the fact that Wii U and Xbox One are struggling and pump their sales up because once heavy hitters like Titanfall, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and Halo come out, PS4 could easily become forgotten about. |
The Wii U number isn't shocking because I think most reasonable people were able to see this platform is simply a lame duck and can't be expected to do much. Lowered expectations and all that.
3DS is considerably more shocking though ... this is supposed to be Nintendo's big bread winner, the fact that its showing such decline at this point in its life cycle suggests a disturbing amount of erosion of the handheld market in general (as if the Vita didn't illustrate it enough).
Pokemon X/Y + 2DS + Zelda ... 3DS/2DS should be at its absolute prime right now, 97k or so indicates virtually no momenteum for the platform. The YoY decreases in Japan are eye raising too. 3DS should be beasting right now, smartphones and tablets are killing Nintendo and they don't have an answer for that right now.
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