1st Party Wii U games: Launch, launch window and first years.

[mike_intellivision]

TWRoO said:

mike_intellivision said:
If you could spread that out over 12-18 months, you would have a big big seller with a lot of momentum.
The problem is you don't want them to close together (they would cannibalize each other) but you need enough to initially move the system. I would think MarioKart would be the highest priority since it seems to have the most universal appeal. Zelda would have the lowest since there was just a release in that series.

Mike from Morgantown

I don't think having Nintendo's system sellers together would incur canibalisation... that may happen with the heavy front end system sellers like Halo/Zelda/God of War, but Mario Kart and Super Mario wouldn't do that. Perhaps they would have a slightly slower start than if released in seperate times, but the way they sell over a long period means they wouldn't directly affect each others sales.

What would instead happen is if Nintendo puts it's system sellers together... then runs out of them as they did with the Wii. With 3rd party attitudes to Nintendo this leads to a game drought and a slow loss of interest in the system overall.

Either way, it is a bad idea to bunch too many things together (Wii). It is even a worse idea not to have any system sellers at launch (3DS).