Well I'm glad I could at least get my point across even if we don't agree on it. That's progress.

Hyrule Warriors isn't a character action game, it's a Musou game. You mow down legions of scrub enemies as an overpowered main character, and occassionally fight more challenging bosses. It's like a 3D hack and Slash. Look at Dynasty Warriors or Sengoku Basara for good examples.

Character action games are different and not hack and slash. CAGs focus on a main character, in a third person, 3D Environment, facing -relatively- few enemies at once, with a heavy focus on combat mechanics and systems, and usually a combo/style points system. DMC, GoW, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden, etc.

It's a pretty good market, one that Nintendo has never really been competitive in but now they have a solid, and exclusive, title in the genre and a temporary monopoly.

I know it's a wiki but the sources cited are legit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U#Sales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One#Sales

It didn't start off miles ahead..feet maybe but not miles and according to NPD it's at wii U's lows as we speak.

700k after first month and a half or 35% ahead. That's more than feet. Then what was the follow up quarter? 300k for Wii U and 1.2m for Xb1?

i know what those are but it doesnt change that they are in the same genre. Tekken and Smash Bros. are part of the same genre play very differently.

You are still missing my point. The genre itself is very niche. THe only blockbuster is GOW and that is a Sony exclusive. It doesnt matter if they have a monopoly if most people dont care in the first place

That's definitly not miles..35% is not even a football field. We don't know what the follow up quarter is yet for Xb1 because Xb1's next isn't done yet.. Lets wait a good year and let the numbers speak for themselves. My point is they both had historically bad starts right after inital release and there is still pleanty of time in this year alone for anything to happen. Nothing will be easy for Xb1 or wii U it will be a struggle for both of them and it will be a tough fight for second place. 

Yes, Q4 was last quarter and the one I was referencing.

24/5 oh my god ,

with this difference you re expecting   xbone surpass wii u?...semptember  is too early in accordance with sales:P smash bros is coming,mk8 poor boost?   poor boost  is what watch dogs gave on xbone this doesnt upset you?...oooo suprised that there is someone who are calling 33000 to 1870000 poor boost ,   ps4 was at  201000 so 187000 is a success,mk 8 gave bigger boost than watch dogs gave on ps4,which is also a huge boost

@OP: It's like most F1 races!
And yes, maybe too early to tell for sure, but the probabilities that Wii U manage to keep 2nd place surely increased, because at least we can already say Ninty showed that if it does things right there's still life in Wii U.

XB1 outship WiiU by the end of September? And how do you expect it to happen? I bet it won't outship the WiiU in total sales neither in September and not even by the end of January 2015. If it happens one day it will be after E3 2015, and if by then Nintendo starts to talk about its new console.

What big cards you believe MS will sort out to make it? Another price cut? The new Gears? Not even Titanfall, which is amazing and was the most expected XB1 game, did it. Maybe Halo can move loads of consoles, but still won't be enough to bridge this gap, not against a WiiU still in the hype for MK8 (which sold in its first 3 days more than any XB1 game so far, let's remember reality) and with SSBB in the pipeline. Not even to mention X and Bayonetta 2, which will also help to sustain the WiiU increased sales and the new Zelda, which will show once again that the WiiU is not that much underpowered as the haters are shouting...

It's time to accept reality man, XB1 will be 3rd place in the generation for a good while, beaten by the WiiU, which lots of MS fanboys despised but are now powerless to beat :)

Lol well this thread sure is fun to read. ;) How bout that May NPD??