| Goodnightmoon said: Have you read what sullwaker wrote above or it doesn´t fit your agenda? and I was talking about the games popularity, how the hell can be people tired of them when they are still selling more this generation than some of their biggest success on the past?? No sense at all, and even less sense when you talk about WiiU droughts when most of the games I talked about are from 3DS and consoles like N64 and GC also had big droughts, and that "last gent doesnt count" is getting ridiculous and old. |
Couldn't be that I was writing my comment while he was posting his? I never saw it.
Here's the thing. How many diehards did I say Nintendo had? 10-15 million I believe? How many sales does the average Wii U Nintendo game have? 2-3 million. Not all the diehards are buying all of the games every generation. Maybe they picked up Mario Kart 8 because they haven't bought a Mario Kart game since double dash. I'm not quite sure. But what I have actually heard out of Nintendo's fans mouths (and I wish I was joking) is that some of them buying more Nintendo games than they normally would because "Nintendo needs our support". I work with one of those guys. He quite literally has every Nintendo published game he can get his hands on for the Wii U. He just bought Mario Maker, played it for a half an hour, decided it "wasn't for him" and fired it on the shelf. This year alone he's had similar experiences with Splatoon and Bayonetta 2. It doesn't take too many die hards with that attitude to see a spike in game sales on a low volume platform.
The "last gen doesn't count" comment will go away when Nintendo can repeat it's success it had on the Wii and DS. If you remove that generation and look at Nintendo hardware sales, you see a downward trend. Each generation sold less than the last, and the latest generation has sold less than two generations before it. So that indicates that the Wii and DS are the exception. Don't like it? Too bad. Just because it's said often doesn't make it less true.
