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ninjablade on 14 January 2013
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JWeinCom said:
ninjablade said:
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Soundwave said:

2D Mario >>>> Zelda franchise

Call of Duty: BLOPS 2 is much bigger third party franchise than anything the Wii launched with.

It's not like this was a 8 month old port, it was only a few days after the PS3/360 releases.


lol i have been saying the samething, blops 2  sells systems like crazy for ps3/360. honestly nothing game wise can save the wii u, it launched with 3 of the biggest games franshises, AC3, blops and mario.

Because nothing convinces gamers to spend money on a new console like games that are available on hardware they already own.  Amirite?

AC3 came out the sametime as 360 and ps3, and blops came out a week later, so what gonna convince them, you guys think nintendo games, both gamecube and n64 had amazing nintendo games, look how they sold.


1.  The X-Box 360 sold poorly because of shortages?  Then why did monthly sales stay below 500K for about a year?  The 360 wasn't particularly hard to find after a little while, yet there wasn't any sort of surge. Even in its second december on the market, the X-Box 360 only sold 2,000,000, or 300K more than the Wii U did in its first December, and by then, any supply issues were undoubtedly worked out.  Three Decembers in?  The system was at 2.1 million.  Stop making up this imaginary massive demand for the 360.  Even if Microsoft made a gagillion 360s at launch, it would have maybe sold 2.5 million its first holiday season.  That would put it pretty much right in line with the Wii U, and that figure is being quite generous.

The 360 didn't sell that strongly for the same reason the Wii U didn't sell very strongly.  It didn't have a lot of games, since you know, it just launched.  As libraries get better, consoles sell better. 

2.  It's not a matter of when they came out, it's a matter of exclusivity.  Nobody with any bit of common sense would expect BLOPS 2 or AC3 to be exlusive.  Please try and explain to me the thought process of a customer who goes out to buy a Wii U to play Assassin's Creed or Black Ops 2.  They're not system sellers, and nobody with any shred of common sense would expect them to be.

3.  Yes, Nintendo games will sell the console.  Nintendo has so far released 3 first party games, and only one of them from an established franchises.  Nintendo has developed a much broader appeal than they did in the Gamecube days. Mario Party, Lego City Undercover, Brain Age, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Wii Fit, Wii Sports, etc.  Not to mention the potential for new franchises.  Basically you said, "well if every Nintendo gamer didn't rush out on day one for New Super Mario Bros U, clearly nothing will ever make them buy a Wii U in the history of ever."

I never said 360 sold amazing, i said it always put up decent numbers in the us, now the wii u with out being in supply constraint sold 475,000k in december, show me a december 360 sold that bad or even close to that bad, there only one december and its only cause it was sold out at launch and who in the world expects a system to sell 500k a month in the us, good sales would be from 240,000 to 350,000 in a system's first year