The sky is falling!

[Mnementh]

ryuzaki57 said:



JTurner82 said:

So first week sales for WiiU games are not what people expected, everyone starts calling out that the WiiU is doomed, that 3rd parties are abandoning it, etc. WITHOUT ANY ACTUAL PROOF.  Yes we have yet to hear of new software for the system, and yes, it's frustrating not knowing what or WHEN such titles will come out (1).  But the jumping to conclusions doomsaying is REALLY grating on me.  I expect the sales for the multiports (AC3, NG3, Batman, CoD2) to gradually leg out (2), and maybe perform better digitally (digital sales) and it's also interesting to know that ZombiU (3) fared the best of the 3rd party games.  And that is a core title, not a casual one.  So... everybody just relax.




(1) People usually analyse facts. FACT : to date, no major multiplatform game is coming to WiiU.
(2) Why should the WiiU audience for those games act differently from the PS360 audience? (i.e. strong launch, then decrease)
(3) ZombiU sold all of its units from bundles in Europe. It is not performing better than the rest of the core titles. Nintendo games are already choking the 3rd parties' business.

1) I would call COD, Assassins Creed and FIFA 'big multiplatforms'. But yes, at the moment we have only few announcements of future multiplats. WiiU get's some good exclusives, also from 3rd party though.
2) Agree. Although also on these consoles launch-titles have usually better legs.
3) What do you mean? I bought ZombiU unbundled, because I'm not interested in this classic controller. The guy at gamestop had to give me the copy on display, because all ZombiU-games were already sold. Also customers can choose between bundles, there are much option without ZombiU. So purchasers of the bundle most likely had bought the game anyway. And probably Nintendo bundled it, because they expected good sales.So far ZombiU is third behind Nintendoland (also bundled) and NSMBU. That's not 'choking' third party. I expect Monster Hunter to be second most sold in Japan after NSMBU.