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Forums - Gaming - WiiU surge is because of PS4 and X1 disapointment?

CGI-Quality said:
NavyNut said:
X1 and PS4 are disappointing, they have no must have games, its feels more like an update to the previous gen than something new and fresh. On the other side the WiiU has some must have games, loads of great games and is a much bigger leap from there last console compare to the X1 and PS4.

That's twice now that I've heard this in here. I'm curious, though, what were the must have games on the 360 and PS3 during the same time periods of 2006 and '07? How did the rest of the gen turn out?


True the 360 didn't had much games before Gears of War came out and thats about a year after release but the PS3 had Uncharted. The 360 was dissapointing too at launch.



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well in my opinion all the systems have been equally disappointing therefore no gamer would swing from their original preference to another disappointment lol.



 

 

PwerlvlAmy said:
Wii U sales went up because of its own games and content. Although there's always a group of people who will see anything negatively when it comes to Nintendo. So Nintendo can never win,no matter what they do lol

Besides saying he is a prick I can't determine which system he is fanboy or hater because he bashes PS4/X1 but also disregard the positives of WiiU and how much mk8 was antecipated. Maybe a PC fanboy trying to badmouth all consoles or the sole Ouya fanboy trying to garne support for it?





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bigjon said:
I think it has more to do with the WiiU finally got a bonafide system seller of a game in Mario Kart.

Yep,

That's the story of my life.



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That article is bullocks. It was really all Mario Kart 8 that made the Wii U sell like that



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padib said:
It's true the other two consoles sold on promise of games, not on games.

In parallel, the U is doing well on its own merits thanks to solid games.

I keep reading this, but I think it's far from the truth.

You have to take into account the ps' entire history and Sony's support of their systems. The ps3 was supported until the end of last uear whereas the wii  didn't get much support from ninty the last year or two before the launch of wiiu. It's about customer satisfaction. I owned both a wii and ps3 and have no plans of buying a wii, but plan on buying a ps4 due to my huge disappointment in the wii. If you get burned, like people felt they did with the psp and wii, the successor rarely does well after that.

The fact that 3rd parties never had much faith in wiiu and ended up not relasing enough games on it combined with the fact that multiplats run better on ps4 made several people go with a ps4 instead. That's not a promise of games. It's games looking better on ps4 than xb1 or wiiu. And since 3rd parties are what a lot of gamers care about (cod, destiny, watch_dogs, fifa, etc), why buy a wiiu? The wiiu is mostly for people who want Ninty ip's and the majority of gamers doesn't seem to care enough to buy a console for it.

You simply can't know how many people bought a ps4 for Killzone, Second Son, and for best console graphics. Because in that respect it's doing well on its own merits (combo of hardware and games).



Xenobot said:
bigjon said:
I think it has more to do with the WiiU finally got a bonafide system seller of a game in Mario Kart.

Yep,

That's the story of my life.


THATS the story of your life...?



All systems struggle if no good games are available. The Wii-U is the only system that is already past this stage because PS4 and X1 do currently offer not a single AAA game at all, only mediocre games like Titanfall, Infamous or Sunset overdrive.

PS4 currently heavily lacks Japanese games and JRPGs, so there is no reason to buy one for many PS3 owners. X1 will end up at 3rd place outside of UK and US and does not really matter to the worldwide market at all.

But the biggest problem of the new consoles is that any gaming PC will allow much higher resolution, FPS, texture quality and shader effects because the AMD APU is extremely weak and completely outdated compared to any Intel CPU combined with a modern GPU.