| KingHades said: Every Wii U or Nintendo fan uses the same excuse for the Wii U.Their excuse is it's lack of games. Now here's where that excuse does not help there cause in the Wii U selling at least more than 45mil. The GameCube had plenty of Mario Games,Two Pokemon Games,and Four Zelda games if I am correct yet it was the least selling console last gen and was outsold by the XBox the Rookie Console. Nintendo is an established company with a loyal following,but got ousted by the Rookie which was not established. So can anyone give me the answer to why they rely on the games arguement when that isn't even guarenteed to boost the Wii U sales by alot. Please no going off-topic keep it within the topic range and no trolling . |
Nintendo's top 2 franchies, Mario and Zelda, were extremely weak on the Cube, and most of the games were just not good enough. The few that were very good tended to be obscure and only appealed to a niche audience. Let us review..
Gamecube launched with a gimicky, mediocre Luigi title, instead of a Mario title. When the Mario game did finally come, it was also mediocre, and was also gimmicky and ridiculously kiddie. There was also no 2D Mario game present, which is a massive franchise and much more popular than its 3D counterpart. Mario Kart Double Dash was arguably the weakest Mario Kart game. It's Zelda offerings were also weak. Wind Waker's cell shaded and cutesy graphics turned off many gamers, as did the tedious sailing and fetch quests. Four swords was a glorified GBA game that was multiplayer only, not even a true Zelda game. The Pokemon games were not mainline games so they shouldn't even be counted. Basically had worse third party support than Wii, with fewer releases from Nintendo, and the few that were released were obscure games that didn't appeal to a mass market audience.
With the Wii U, Nintendo at least has 2D Mario, Wii Fit, (possibly) Wii Sports, Call of Duty, Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter, and a more serious Zelda effort to gain more sales. Mario Kart has also improved massively in popularity thanks to the Wii offering which was much better than the Cube's, a trend I don't expect to see reversed drastically for Wii U. While these games aren't going to magically elevate it to Wii level sales, it's extremely naive to assume that somehow these games will do absolutely nothing to increase demand.
