Nintendo: Too Big to Fail?

[Mensrea]

Mr Khan said:

Mensrea said:
This is a tad off topic, but I'm really sick of people writing pikmin 3 off. Calling it casual, etc. Try to get a casual player to play pikmin, they'll suck, hard. Its a pretty deep RPG that requires precision, patience , and time management. I think it will push systems once word gets out. Pikmin 1 and 2 were stellar games. In my mind they were on the same tier quality wise as WW, and prime 1 and 2.

Pikmin 1 and 2 sold under 2 million units apiece. Pikmin 3 might do slightly better, being a non-new IP launch title on a console that, by all accounts, will perform better than the GC, but a system-seller it will not be.

Maybe not in the way that a Wii sports will, but it will sell to Nintendo fans who loved the GameCube yet felt burned by the Wii. It will sell like crazy in japan because pikmin has become pretty big over there. And it will sell to a more gamer oriented audience looking for a RTS. Its probably going to be the best game on the system for a while, so I think it will be a good chance for pikmin to get the sales it deserves.