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curl-6 on 18 March 2013
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Mazty said:
curl-6 said:
Mazty said:
curl-6 said:
Mazty said:

Nope - because it's really, really easy. 
10 million units on a console that has sold 99 million +. Proportionally, that's not very good when we consider the amount of units sold on the other consoles which have almost 30 millions less sales than the wii. 

Uncharted, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Halo, Mass Effect, and Skyrim are easy too, but I bet you'd call at least some of them "core" games.

And regardless of install base, 10 million plus IS a massive number for a console exclusive. And it's predecessor, Melee, sold 7 million on the 22 million selling Gamecube.

Those games are all mature though, and certainly not as easy as something like Mario Karts. 

So in a best case scenario (also read utterly implausible) SSB will help shift 8 million consoles, meaning the Wii U taps out at 10 mill. Yeah that's guarenteed 3rd place.

Whether something is "mature" or not has nothing to do with whether it is core.

This second statement is just preposterous; you're concluding that every Wii U sold from now onwards will only be pushed by SSB? 


Yeah it does. Something like Heavy Rain is easy (can't really fail) but mature. Are you telling me that's a casual game?

Exactly my point. You are all saying that a handful of exclusives will shift the Wii U. That's absurd. Simply put the Wii U does not have a large enough line up to be successful imo as even in best case scenarios it won't shift many consoles unless something radically changes.

Core and casual are gameplay styles; casual games can be easily picked up a played by inexperienced gamers, and have simple gameplay that doesn't require long term investment or effort, core is the opposite. Whether a game is rated E or M is uttery beside the point. Heavy Rain is only core because it's not accessible. There are M rated casual games, and E rated core games.

To say that every Wii U will be shifted by SSB alone is absurd. But SSB, and 3D Mario, and HD Zelda, and Mario Kart, and X, and Metroid/Pikmin/etc, isn't absurd at all. A large portion of the sales of any Nintendo console can be accounted for by less than a dozen key games.