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Gen 6 and 8 have a correlation 49 51.58%
 
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I own all consoles just g... 12 12.63%
 
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Soleron on 16 February 2014
Carl2291 said:
20-30 Million for Wii U

What numbers are people using to project above 20m for Wii U?



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Carl on 16 February 2014
Soleron said:

What numbers are people using to project above 20m for Wii U?


Well I was being very optimistic

I think when it actually hits sub 200 prices, with a library of Nintendo titles, it will hit its stride.



                            

Fusioncode on 17 February 2014

I blame Microsoft and Nintendo for totally dropping the ball this gen. It's like they forgot why their last consoles were so successful and decided to do everything completely different.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

NintendoPie on 17 February 2014

What's with this blame placing? Sheesh people, not every console has just "hardcore" gamers. How do you think the PS2 became the best selling console ever? Definitely not just because of "gamers."

However, I agree with the OP.



Justagamer on 17 February 2014
fps_d0minat0r said:
Thats because most the people who bought the wii wont be coming back. They are probably playing flappy bird as we speak.


That statement may be more accurate than anyone realizes....



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Justagamer on 17 February 2014
Carl2291 said:
Yeah, this is pretty obvious when you take into account just how different the Wii userbase was in comparison to anything else the industry has seen. Those gamers arent coming back and this generation is looking more like a return to normality.

I think lifetime if were judging solely on PS4, Xbox One and Wii U we can expect something similar to the PS2 generation - 200 to 225 Million lifetime.

100-120 Million for PS4
40-60 Million for Xbox One
20-30 Million for Wii U

I think as things currently are in the industry, those are fair early predictions.


Those are vey fair early estimates. But if anyone has the capability (money) to alter their fortune, it's Microsoft. 

Edit: btw Carl, my apologies for some of my statements yesterday, I meant no disrespect to you or anyone in these forums.



hugebong on 17 February 2014

nope.



fatslob-:O on 17 February 2014

Amen 2 that.



Spazzy_D on 17 February 2014
Nem said:
t3mporary_126 said:

I blame the Wii for opening the pandora box of causal gamers who would not return and I blame Nintendo for not attracting them back to home consoles.

So it's really Nintendo's fault for not making a true successor to the Wii because we all knew Sony and Microsoft were less likely to do so.


Its funny cause during the gen, people would complain that the Wii was for casuals and demanded a more hardcore system. Funny how it works.

Wii U isn't a hardcore system though, either.  It's not competitive graphically with Microsoft and Sonys offerings and even if it aschews motion controlls for dual analog it's still a gimmicky controller.



Nem on 17 February 2014
Spazzy_D said:
Nem said:
t3mporary_126 said:

I blame the Wii for opening the pandora box of causal gamers who would not return and I blame Nintendo for not attracting them back to home consoles.

So it's really Nintendo's fault for not making a true successor to the Wii because we all knew Sony and Microsoft were less likely to do so.


Its funny cause during the gen, people would complain that the Wii was for casuals and demanded a more hardcore system. Funny how it works.

Wii U isn't a hardcore system though, either.  It's not competitive graphically with Microsoft and Sonys offerings and even if it aschews motion controlls for dual analog it's still a gimmicky controller.


I have to disagree. Once it lost motion controls as its main use of control and used a controller, it stopped beeing aimed at casuals and became aimed at hardcores. Hardcore is not just someone who likes pretty graphics. Its someone who likes to play good games without gimmicks.