@Moonco: We'll have to see, of course. But I reckon the Xbox One will drop like a rock, post-Scorpio. Microsoft got killed this generation, and they know it. They'll be looking to move on from this machine ASAP, I reckon.
@Moonco: I don't think the Xbox One will be around in 2020, so a head-to-head comparison likely won't arise. Microsoft are 'moving on' this year. By 2020, I reckon the One will have disappeared from the shelves.
@fig56: The Wii was a statistical outlier. Other than the Wii, Nintendo's home consoles have all sold fewer and fewer with each passing generation. The Wii is a blip on an otherwise consistently-downward trend.
Nobody's saying the Wii never existed/didn't matter - but, statistically, it's the one piece of data that could be excluded from the six. It'd be quite reasonable to do so.
@dylan35: I bought 80 games for the Wii U - almost all of them from the Virtual Console.
As a console, the Wii U is fine... but only fine, y'know? So many things could, and should, have been done better. There were certain applications for the Gamepad that were fantastic, but in other respects it was a pain in the arse. When the Wii U sent the same image to the TV and to the Gamepad screen, which it often did, it was so distracting having a mirror image of what you were looking at on your television also running between your thumbs...
... and don't get me started on the Pro controller. Jesus...
... and what about the games that, for no apparent reason, only allowed you to use certain controllers, even though others seemed perfectly practical for the task?
And there was the usual Nintendo crap - having to buy a bigger battery for the Gamepad to increase it's life from 4 hours to 7... yeah, I did that. I'm the guy.
What else...? Reggie halfway-promised us GameCube games on the Virtual Console a couple of times. Never arrived.
Oh yeah! Balloon Fight was released at 60Hz in Europe after a petition against 50Hz bullshit. Hooray...!!! But then every other Virtual Console game was released at 50. C'mon.
And how could I possibly forget this: 2017, and still no online gamer accounts? So that if my console dies I lose about £500's-worth of software, with no way of recovering it. Really...?! It's not enough to say Nintendo need to 'get with the times' on this front - they need to get with the mid-2000s.
Nintendo got so much wrong. All of the above needs rectifying this generation, otherwise they're dead.
@asylum83: The N64 was a failure, at least within the context of Nintendo's prior console releases. It heralded the end of their dominance. Let me see if I can find the sales data...
Once you acknowledge that the phenomenal success of the Wii is a statistical outlier, Nintendo have been in steady decline since the 1990s as a home console manufacturer. They've fared better with portables of course - which is perhaps why they're now making their new home console portable, because 'portable' is something that they're good at.
I wish the Switch every success. I like Nintendo, and I really don't want them to disappear from the home console space.
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