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tbone51 on 11 December 2014
MikeRox said:
tbone51 said:
kopstudent89 said:

Wow that's disappointing....................................

Smash 3DS really hit it bad. Baffling decision by Nintendo imo.


depending on wat your saying, 2.25mil+ (3ds version made) is better than under 700k-900k which is wat i see SSBU doing lifetime :)


He's saying the 3DS version of the game existing, has seriously impacted the sales potential of the Wii U version.


Yes its impacted it, but it was never going to do as much without 3ds version being made. 



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MikeRox on 11 December 2014
tbone51 said:
MikeRox said:

He's saying the 3DS version of the game existing, has seriously impacted the sales potential of the Wii U version.


Yes its impacted it, but it was never going to do as much without 3ds version being made. 


But the Wii U version might have done a lot more, and those Wii U sales would have been worth far more to Nintendo in the grand scheme. The 3DS version would have been better being announced next year.



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tbone51 on 11 December 2014
MikeRox said:
tbone51 said:
MikeRox said:

He's saying the 3DS version of the game existing, has seriously impacted the sales potential of the Wii U version.


Yes its impacted it, but it was never going to do as much without 3ds version being made. 


But the Wii U version might have done a lot more, and those Wii U sales would have been worth far more to Nintendo in the grand scheme. The 3DS version would have been better being announced next year.


Yeah, but how much more? TBH this was definitely the best play overall Worldwide.



zorg1000 on 11 December 2014
kopstudent89 said:

Wow that's disappointing....................................

Smash 3DS really hit it bad. Baffling decision by Nintendo imo.


They made the right choice, Wii U version would never sell close to 3DS version even if it was the only option. Ya it probably affected it but it was much smarter to release Smash on a device with a large install base than to keep it on Wii U where it would be lucky to sell 1 million.



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MikeRox on 11 December 2014
tbone51 said:
MikeRox said:
tbone51 said:
MikeRox said:

He's saying the 3DS version of the game existing, has seriously impacted the sales potential of the Wii U version.


Yes its impacted it, but it was never going to do as much without 3ds version being made. 


But the Wii U version might have done a lot more, and those Wii U sales would have been worth far more to Nintendo in the grand scheme. The 3DS version would have been better being announced next year.


Yeah, but how much more? TBH this was definitely the best play overall Worldwide.


We'll have to agree to disagree, as far as increasing the Wii U userbase, it was an idiotic handling of the game.



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tbone51 on 11 December 2014
MikeRox said:
tbone51 said:
MikeRox said:
tbone51 said:
MikeRox said:

He's saying the 3DS version of the game existing, has seriously impacted the sales potential of the Wii U version.


Yes its impacted it, but it was never going to do as much without 3ds version being made. 


But the Wii U version might have done a lot more, and those Wii U sales would have been worth far more to Nintendo in the grand scheme. The 3DS version would have been better being announced next year.


Yeah, but how much more? TBH this was definitely the best play overall Worldwide.


We'll have to agree to disagree, as far as increasing the Wii U userbase, it was an idiotic handling of the game.


Thats only increasing the userbase though,a userbase thats never going to cross 3.5mil in japan. Remember that^.

Also 3ds version was done before WiiU, and there are many other factors aswell in it :0



Teeqoz on 11 December 2014
uran10 said:
Wii U over PS4... can we please keep it this way next week? That's all I care about (ps4 GTA5 bundle :( )


Not to mention DQ Heroes bundle release...



MikeRox on 11 December 2014
tbone51 said:

Thats only increasing the userbase though,a userbase thats never going to cross 3.5mil in japan. Remember that^.

Also 3ds version was done before WiiU, and there are many other factors aswell in it :0


I don't need to remember anything. They need more Wii U sales globally. Putting a cut back version of 3DS has hampered the sales potential of the Wii U version. This is nothing but shooting themselves in the foot with regards to increasing their Wii U standing. They could very easily have released their portable version of the game next year and enjoyed the same sales overall, however with a bigger impact on their home console.



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tbone51 on 11 December 2014
MikeRox said:
tbone51 said:

Thats only increasing the userbase though,a userbase thats never going to cross 3.5mil in japan. Remember that^.

Also 3ds version was done before WiiU, and there are many other factors aswell in it :0


I don't need to remember anything. They need more Wii U sales globally. Putting a cut back version of 3DS has hampered the sales potential of the Wii U version. This is nothing but shooting themselves in the foot with regards to increasing their Wii U standing. They could very easily have released their portable version of the game next year and enjoyed the same sales overall, however with a bigger impact on their home console.

Ok but your talking about only WiiU userbase with a slightly better increase, thats all. 3DS version was announced and began development way before WiiU terrible release (in terms of sales). Pushing back SSB 3DS wouldn't have helped at all overall



tak13 on 11 December 2014
Teeqoz said:
uran10 said:
Wii U over PS4... can we please keep it this way next week? That's all I care about (ps4 GTA5 bundle :( )


Not to mention DQ Heroes bundle release...


I do not disagree with what you re implying!However,wii u has a head start 24-27k and ps4 was at 13-15k in the previous week...Don't say me that wii u sales will fall because in december Japan sales are rising(although,you never know,especially with Japan).:P The best scenario for ps4 is to double its sales 26k-30k and a little more because of gta.

So in order to win wii u,wii u must fall or don't get any boost or a small one...