Wii U NA Sales Dismal

[osed125]

ninjablade said:

osed125 said:

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. 

 

listen i will bet you 6 months of sig control if if any of the mario franshises sell better then GC, n64 levels on wiiu, you guys don't seem to understand motion controls sold the wiiu, not nintendo games, just look at N64 GC and now wiiu, but ok, lets keep on pretending nintendo games are a holy grail above everything else and 2 great nintendo games a year will save the system.

You sound mad. I not going to accept that bet because we already had one in place.

But anyway. Yes, motion controls sold the Wii, and that's exactly my point, most people did not buy NSMB Wii because of the game itself, they already bought the system for Wii Sports or other motion control game, so when Nintendo shows up with a new Mario game a lot of people jump on the boat. Not even Nintendo fans buy a new console solely because of a 2D Mario game (myself included), the game simple does not justify the price of a new console, and that's where the extremely good legs come from, people buy a Nintendo console console for X game and see a NSMB game and buy it. 

The franchise is really big, some may consider it a system a seller, but I personally don't think so. Like I said many times it has extremely good legs and I don't think that will change. And if this franchises are not popular anymore how do you explain Mario Kart 7 and Mario 3D Land sales?