Quote Originally Posted by danawhitaker View Post
What's interesting though is that if you compare total unit sales over the same period of time to the Wii U and the PS3, they aren't that far off. The Wii U is supposed to be around 3 million, from what I read, and Sony was at 3.6 million by the end of March 2007 and Microsoft was at 3.2 in March of 2006. Sony had estimated being at around 6 million the first year and ended up being off the mark. The original Wii did considerably better, with over 5 million units during that same time period.
Let's be real, the Wii U launch has two things uniquely separating itself from PS360: a cheaper $300-350 starting price point and a post-recession economy. Under similar circumstances, a newly released $400 broken down Xbox or $600 Blu-Ray Player wouldn't even reach half their sales numbers in the same time frame with MSony struggling far more in cutting costs than Nintendo.