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anamme said:
Mario Kart for the Wii U can't come quickly enough!



I'm sure that will be the best selling Wii U game... but the Mario Kart on gamecube was also a very good selling game. What I'm saying is don't expect it to make much of a difference.



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Max King of the Wild said:
anamme said:
Mario Kart for the Wii U can't come quickly enough!



I'm sure that will be the best selling Wii U game... but the Mario Kart on gamecube was also a very good selling game. What I'm saying is don't expect it to make much of a difference.

MK7 + 3D Land revived the 3DS pretty much on their own. When MK and SSB and the 3D Mario all launch, with the 2D Mario already being here, that should be a critical mass to make it not a Gamecube. Not saying it'll sell 50m, but it won't sell sub-20m either.



just terrible all round, especially the wii u and vita.

still, alot to come for the ps3 in the coming months so its sales will pick up. wii u still has plenty also. vita, im begining to lose faith :S



How does PS3 still manage to get over 100k. What a BOIST!!!!



Soleron said:
Max King of the Wild said:
anamme said:
Mario Kart for the Wii U can't come quickly enough!



I'm sure that will be the best selling Wii U game... but the Mario Kart on gamecube was also a very good selling game. What I'm saying is don't expect it to make much of a difference.

MK7 + 3D Land revived the 3DS pretty much on their own. When MK and SSB and the 3D Mario all launch, with the 2D Mario already being here, that should be a critical mass to make it not a Gamecube. Not saying it'll sell 50m, but it won't sell sub-20m either.


I never said Wii U will sell as much as the gamecube. And it sold 22 million.



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Soleron said:
Max King of the Wild said:
anamme said:
Mario Kart for the Wii U can't come quickly enough!



I'm sure that will be the best selling Wii U game... but the Mario Kart on gamecube was also a very good selling game. What I'm saying is don't expect it to make much of a difference.

MK7 + 3D Land revived the 3DS pretty much on their own. When MK and SSB and the 3D Mario all launch, with the 2D Mario already being here, that should be a critical mass to make it not a Gamecube. Not saying it'll sell 50m, but it won't sell sub-20m either.

I don't really know much about the 3DS sales history, but I thought the price cut revived it, no ?



This is slowly becoming a worrying trend... 3DS (outside Japan), Vita and Wii U are all doing terrible. And let's not kid ourselves: The other next generation consoles are not going to fly off the shelves at a $400 price point either - they might do 10m each in their first full year but it won't be Wii-like sales (or even PS2 sales probably).

Just to be clear what these numbers mean: The Wii U is selling slower than the Gamecube did. It is currently headed for 20m lifetime sales and it is selling way slower than either the 360 or the PS3 did at first (like 1/2 of the PS360's numbers in their first year). The Wii U is close to being dead in the water. It is selling closer to Dreamcast numbers than sales of most "big" consoles. But unlike the Gamecube the Wii U is sold at a loss - they are not going to turn a profit on the console at this sales pace: Slower sales mean higher production costs per unit and lower software sales - basically their loss per unit increases over what they expected. Software development costs are fixed costs, they won't go down. Mario Kart U will be, say, $5m to develop no matter if the game sells 5 million units or 20 million units --> the net profit decreases. And it also means third parties won't find a healthy environment on the Wii U so they'll stay away from developing for it - which will result in less royalties paid to Nintendo. It's a vicious cycle. 

And the Vita is selling even worse. 28k worldwide is close to non-existent. 

(Not meant to provoke flamebait, btw. But I was really harsh on the Vita and I'll be equally harsh on the Wii U. These are not "normal" or "slightly lower than expected" sales for either console.)



gronk-bonk said:
DanneSandin said:
Metallicube said:
runqvist said:
360 selling more than Wii+Wii U combined, this is awesome. :D Wii U selling less than 40k, gotta love those numbers.

No, I don't "gotta love those numbers" becuase I am a Nintendo fan. What a stupid thing to say..

You are a pretty sad human being if you are seriously that happy about your preferred piece of plastic beating on your hated piece of plastic. I don't care if this gets me banned either because its worth it. 

 

I totally agree with, but just let him be. He's a sorry excuse of a gamer, and nothing we say or do will change that. don't bother with this one.

Im not sure why he hasnt got banned yet. He is running amuck in this thread wth the sole purpose of pissing off people. It baffle me that a person can stoop so low.

He did get banned tho ^^ But yeah, I can't stand that guy



I'm on Twitter @DanneSandin!

Furthermore, I think VGChartz should add a "Like"-button.

Man, the WiiU and the Vita have fallen and they can't get up. They might need life alert cause this is painful to watch.



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Barozi said:
Soleron said:
Max King of the Wild said:
anamme said:
Mario Kart for the Wii U can't come quickly enough!



I'm sure that will be the best selling Wii U game... but the Mario Kart on gamecube was also a very good selling game. What I'm saying is don't expect it to make much of a difference.

MK7 + 3D Land revived the 3DS pretty much on their own. When MK and SSB and the 3D Mario all launch, with the 2D Mario already being here, that should be a critical mass to make it not a Gamecube. Not saying it'll sell 50m, but it won't sell sub-20m either.

I don't really know much about the 3DS sales history, but I thought the price cut revived it, no ?

A price cut+3marios.



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