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Antabus said:

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--OkeyDokey-- said:

I wonder if Wii could actually wind up in third this holiday. With Microsoft's Kinect, Reach and continued strong sales of the slim model and Sony's Move and GT5, Nintendo must be praying Donkey Kong is a hardware mover cause it's their only hope right now.

I'm really wondering why people think DK is going to be a hardware mover.

Donkey Kong as far as I remember mostly catered to existing Nintendo fans/Mario fans. And NSMB Wii must have got loads of Mario fans on Wii.

DKCR will surely move some systems, but I don't think its gonna be a massive system seller like NSMB Wii.

So funny how history repeats, especially when that history repeating is less than a year old...

As I recall, almost EVERYONE here said the same about NSMB Wii, that it would only sell to existing Wii owners. When I said it would move massive hardware, noone believed me.

Donkey Kong Country Returns is a similar type of game NSMB Wii is; a mass market sidescroller that appeals to many. Also similar to Mario, DKC is a series that has been untouched for a over a decade, which probably has created a lot of pent up hype. But at the same time, it's still a different game, that will probably pick up some gamers that NSMB Wii did not. Expect this game to be huge, then the crow eating will begin again, just like with NSMB Wii..

While it won't be AS big as NSMB Wii, Epic Mickey, Wii Party, Goldeneye, and Kirby could pick up that extra slack. Wii won't sell 4.3 million like last December, but I think a 3.5 - 4 million is very possible.

Yeah, when was the game released? Oh no, maybe it was not the game itself but the usual holidayboost! That boost is not from those individual games but people buying wii for christmas presents. Usually parents buying consoles for their kids.

Do you really think the fastest selling videogame ever didn't move hardware? Even if Wii had tons of Mario games before, NSMBW moved a lot of hardware, it was mostly because of it that Wii had record holidays in the US, the price cut itself did something but would have never pushed the Wii to that. And sales in January show it, NSMBW was the game most people bought with the Wii, while now the games which are keeping the Wii at (relatively) high levels are Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus, and maybe some sales from Super Mario Galaxy 2 too.

Of course it moved some HW but it was not as big system mover as some people make it to be. Pricecut holiday season were bigger reasons for those sales.

Without NSMBW Wii would have sold 3 or 4 dozen consoles tops.