Pachter: "Wii U won't save Nintendo, phones took 35% of the market"

[Ail]

To be fair AC1 sold that much because it was something new, the graphics were kick ass at the time and the marketing campaign was great.
But the game was kind of repetitive and there wasn't that much to do in the game...
So maybe what you are arguing would have worked for another game but in my view AC1 is a really bad example.

The game sold on graphics and a marketing campaign based on in game footage. And these are the two points that would have been severely different on the Wii..