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Forums - Sales Discussion - Wii U beaten by the Dreamcast - what now?

Nostalpouet on 14 December 2014

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/9/dreamcast/

vs

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/47/wii-u/


with lower install base you can see the softwares making the difference.


next week ssb will be million seller and everything about nintendo market will be set next year=> if softwares sales match Big titles like 3dworld or MK8 big N will be ok for this gen

if they sell like bayonetta BIG N is doomed and will go 3rd party



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atoker on 14 December 2014

lol 2 years into it's life and you're declaring the dreamcast beat it? No just stop, the Wii U has a few more years.



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Crookster on 14 December 2014

Hasn't Nintendo invested a fortune merging it's handheld and home console hardware research and development teams? Not the actions of a company who is going to bottle it. Despite the poor Wii U sales, Nintendo is in profit. Even when it wasn't, Nintendo's losses were a splash in the ocean compared to Sony's and Microsoft's losses. I think they are highly unlikely to exit the hardware business any time soon.



bigtakilla on 14 December 2014
Crookster said:
Hasn't Nintendo invested a fortune merging it's handheld and home console hardware research and development teams? Not the actions of a company who is going to bottle it. Despite the poor Wii U sales, Nintendo is in profit. Even when it wasn't, Nintendo's losses were a splash in the ocean compared to Sony's and Microsoft's losses. I think they are highly unlikely to exit the hardware business any time soon.

The reality whether people want  to accept it or not. From here on looks very promising for the console as well. With Zelda and Metroid on the horizon, it should be good,



bigtakilla on 14 December 2014
Nostalpouet said:
http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/9/dreamcast/

vs

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/47/wii-u/


with lower install base you can see the softwares making the difference.


next week ssb will be million seller and everything about nintendo market will be set next year=> if softwares sales match Big titles like 3dworld or MK8 big N will be ok for this gen

if they sell like bayonetta BIG N is doomed and will go 3rd party

Wouldn't by  next year the Wii U already surpass Dreamcast in console sales though? Even if the rest of their games (and with Zelda U in the future I highly doubt software sales will be weak for at least that game) sell just as bad as the Bayonetta 2 (which would come in a 10 in the top 10 best selling Dreamcast games). Nintendo right now (even with less consoles sold) is still in a WAY better financial situation than Sega ever was during the Dreamcast days. Plus Sega didn't have a backup money printing machine (3DS). Compare the amount of hardware and software sales for that combined with Wii U and the whole talk of doom is almost laughable.

Sega and Nintendo are apples and oranges.



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Lyrikalstylez on 14 December 2014

R.i.p. nintendo



cainam on 14 December 2014

so Xbox One (vgchartz: 9.1 Mio sales) is a flop too?



tbone51 on 14 December 2014
Lyrikalstylez said:
R.i.p. nintendo


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaHAHAHAAAAaaahahahahahaaahhhhhaahahaaa

 

No seriously, HAHA XD

 

3DS and 50mil install base says hi.... Nuff said 



bigtakilla on 14 December 2014
tbone51 said:
Lyrikalstylez said:
R.i.p. nintendo


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaHAHAHAAAAaaahahahahahaaahhhhhaahahaaa

 

No seriously, HAHA XD

 

3DS and 50mil install base says hi.... Nuff said 

^This. I feel I laugh far too often but it's so easy when you get threads like this.



Lanicor on 14 December 2014
bigtakilla said:
BraLoD said:
To be fair the Dreamcast was a good seller until the PS2 appeared.

I don't know why Nintendo don't just stop making consoles and make their games multiplat
It would reach so many more people and make so much more money for them.

They can't seem to understand how to manage a console, they should keep doing games but stop making consoles.

Wouldn't you, core Ninty fans, like it?

No, that would pretty much be garbage. Instead of the gamepad all we'd have is the dualshock, or the Xbone controller? No thanks, it certainly isn't worth it for  better graphics. (Especially for how small the leap actually appears.)

This! You got it. Its true, if there hadnt been Nintendo around we still would have useed old fashioned controlls sony and ms provides us over and over. Nintendo=Innovation. Nintendo is kind of Apple and Sony like Samsung. Easy copies by sony though compromised by more horse power. I have still respect left for MS due to their kinect programm. I loled hard when i saw sonys "new" controller with touch functions. Bad copy!

I wonder who will.invent virtual reality on consoles first. I bet it will be MS. Sony will invent a gamepad with a a screen included.