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The failure of the Wii U. After making the PS3 and Xbox360 their bitch, Nintendo drop the ball so hard. At least MS recover and are doing well, but the Wii U is dead weight as this point, despite a very impressive (critically) library of games.



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- the PSP Hardware sales when taking a look at the almost non-existing Software sales (except japan)
- GTA V
- the fact that Wii is neither market leader in US nor in EU, despite the huge lead at some point (last gen was so freaking long ...)



The PS3 comeback. I sort of believed beforehand the Wii would succeed and the Wii U would fail.



 

 

 

 

 

Apple. Sometimes i even think the need to buy apple products must be some kind of addiction.



Focusing on the past five or so years...

 

High Sales

  • Animal Crossing: New Leaf's Week 1 in Japan, almost immediately becoming the best-selling 3DS title.
  • Youkai Watch's immediate success in Japan, especially the second game.
  • The PS4 dominating the 8th generation so throughly.
  • GTAV selling quite as well as it did (45 million or so on consoles vs 21 million for GTA4) and on two generations of consoles.
  • Persona 4 on the Vita selling well across regions despite the Vita's userbase.
  • The Just Dance series coming out of nowhere and being huge for a couple of years.
  • Link's Crossbow Training being a thing that succeeded.
  • Kinect was insanely popular in 2010 and 2011 despite few great games.
  • Minecraft's retail versions.
  • Skyrim selling 15 million on consoles, over twice as much as Oblivion, in an era where an online focus was considered increasingly essential.

 

Low Sales

  • The Wii U's failure to ever secure momentum.
  • The decline of "Wii Generation" series like Wii Fit, Nintendogs, and Cooking Mama.
  • God of War Ascension and Gears of War: judgment were both released in March 2013 ands both had far lower sales than their predecessors, each called GoW3.
  • Guitar Hero and rock Band plummeting in a couple of years.
  • Madden is still relevant, but its decline since its PS2 Golden Age is remarkable considering how football itself isn't notably less popular in North America.


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