Nintendo Wii U Games Fail To Crack UK Top 10

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Yakuzaice said:

Here is the top 20 WiiU chart.

1. Nintendo Land (Nintendo)
2. New Super Mario Bros U (Nintendo)
3. Zombi U (Ubisoft)
4. Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed (Sega)
5. Batman: Arkham City – Armoured Edition (Warner Bros)
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Activision)
7. Sports Connection (Ubisoft)
8. Assassin’s Creed III (Ubisoft)
9. Just Dance 4 (Ubisoft)
10. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Namco Bandai)
11. Rabbids Land (Ubisoft)
12. Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (Disney)
13. Tank! Tank! Tank! (Namco Bandai)
14. FIFA 13 (EA)
15. Darksiders II (THQ)
16. Family Party: 30 Games Obstacle Arcade (Namco Bandai)
17. Mass Effect 3 (EA)
18. Ben 10: Omniverse (Namco Bandai)
19. Skylanders Giants (Activision)
20. Game Party Champions (Warner Bros)

Black Ops 2 was approximately 2k, and AC3 was 1,618 units.  It's pretty fair to say everything underneath that flopped.

I must ask - where are you getting the numbers from?

Anyway, I wouldn't assume that things under 1,600 units are flops. Just to make the point, consider that Need for Speed Carbon on the Wii had a US launch week of just a touch over 10,000, which is roughly analogous to 1,600 in the UK. It went on to sell 1.2 million copies worldwide, including 407,000 in the US.

Launch numbers tend to start out depressed, except for a few must-have titles. In this case, in the UK, it's Nintendo Land, NSMB U, and ZombiU. All other titles tend to take more time to gather momentum. Expect FIFA 13, Skylanders Giants, and Just Dance 4, at least, to perform moderately well by the end of the year - those are titles that will find themselves more often in stockings or giftwrapped, rather than being bought directly by first-buyers.