Wii U Gets Games - Will Sales Go UP?

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Roma said:
I don't think the games mentioned in the first paragraph will do much to increase teh sales

as for Wii Fit U it might give it a boost but the price is not right for the casual audience yet so the game won't do much for the system

Pikmin 3 will give it a small boost, Wonderful 101 is a new franchise that looks like it will be very niche so it will probably not do anything for the system.

honestly we need to wait until after E3 to see what sales might look like based on the games announced there

What about

Dragon Quest X

It releases in Japan this month, and Dragon Quest X is huge in Japan. Didn't it boost Wii sales by 300% that one week? They did, Wii went from selling just over 10k weekly (what WiiU is doing now) to about 42k after Dragon Quest released, and then it stabilized at 15k weekly for a while.

Yea that boost will go away in a month, but Japan might stabilize 5-10k a week higher and stick above PS3.

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As for the rest of the world, there will be a small 5-10k rise because of Lego and Monster Hunter, but I don't think Wii U sales will pick up until June. Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101 aren't "must buy console" for games, but they are great games, and they will still be that first good game which people need before they buy a console. After all people won't buy a console unless there is a game they like, and not all of us like New Super Mario Bros.

So sales will be up slightly overall in March, and it might stabilize at a higher point because now Wii U will have a small library of games to choose from. However we won't see big jumps until June-August when bigger titles like Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101 and Wind Waker release, and until we see footage of Mario Kart and Smash Bros at E3.