Wii U NA Sales Dismal

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ninjablade said:

osed125 said:

Max King of the Wild said:

oldschoolfool said:
coming out with a couple of mario and nintendo games=problem solved.

How did that work out for N64 and gamecube bothe selling less than 35mil?

Their franchises are more popular that they were back in the day. Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash sold 9.87m and 6.95 respectively, while MK Wii sold 33.51 (yes, it was bundle but the difference is still extremely huge). Mario Galaxy 1 almost sold the same as Mario 64 and 4m units more than Sunshine. There also 2D Mario games which are known to have extremely good legs. Finally there's the "Wii series" which is extremely big.

So this argument doesn't make any sense because some Nintendo franchises are waaaay more popular than they were back in the N64 and GC eras.

your theory get debunked by new super mario wiiu alone, i mean the first one sold over 20 million pluse, yet, it not really selling much wiiu's, if you look at the npd, mario galaxy sold, 1 million its first month, while mario galaxy 2 sold 550,000 its first month on npd chartz, this proves that the series is not as strong as it used  to be, because systems sellers usually sell 2-3 million its first month on npd, they have huge launches with people lined up.

When New Super Mario Wii came out the Wii was almost at it's pick, there were tons of other games to choice from (including Wii Sports), people did not bought a Wii because of NSMB Wii. the system already had tons of games, and most people just added the game in their collection (there's also the bundle). 

NSMB Wii U doesn't have that advantage, at least not yet.