@Solaryellow said:
Your opinion is certainly valid but not one shared by the majority. People are going to Nintendo's competition en masse. Attribute it to the complacency and blunders coming out of Kyoto and Redmond. It's 2014 and not 2001 yet Nintendo is acting as such. The eShop hyped up the E3 presentation yet it came over as well as a fart in a crowded elevator.
Sorry but Wii U still has sold more copies than the XB1 and is starting to sell faster than it again (no doubt in part because of Mario Kart 8, but not entirely because of it). The price drop will help XB1 sales, but with so few games on the horizon I doubt it will do that much, price drops alone can't sell systems. Also most people that are at all open to Nintendo loved the E3 presentation, I can't find one person from any major gaming media outlet that doesn't think that Nintendo at least did decently, and most people seem to think they did really well, far better than Sony for example.
If you would have asked me in 2007 or even 2008, if the PS3 was dead in the water, of course like anyone I would have said yes. They had few even decent games. They were losing a lot of the games they had come to rely on (Final Fantasy and GTA for example). The 360 was outselling it big time, as was the Wii. It was too expense, largely because of it's use of a relatively unknown disk type. It was dead. While it might still have finished third, it came on so strong towards the end that it propelled its sequel to becoming the fastest selling console of all time, without even having any games. I am not saying the Wii U will do the same thing, I am just saying tales of its demise have been grossly exaggerated.
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