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TheLastStarFighter on 25 March 2013
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kitler53 said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
kitler53 said:

which wiiU games?  really, which games are you refering to?

pikmin?  ..failed to ignite the gamecube.

mario kart?  ..failed to ignite the gamecube.

3D mario?  ..failed to ignite the gamecube.

monilith soft's game (project x for wiiU)?  ..failed to ignite the gamecube.

 

oh wait, i know, you are waiting for the "wii" games.  you know, as soon as a 2D mario or a party game collection like nintendo land release!  ..err, wait a sec.  Oh right, wii fit!  ...it's going to follow up with another massive sucess just like the 3DS version of nintendogs!  awww... shit.

there is nothing confused about my second statement.  the wii tanked in the end.  no other generation winner has ever fallen so quickly and so dramatically.  3DS needed a 32% price cut just to stay afloat and is still tracking below the DS with a trajectory to be massively down GenOverGen.  poor wiiU sales is just another piece of evidence that all leads to one ultimate conclusion...

nintendo has no idea what made the wii was a success and they cannot recreate it.

 

..but i don't expect you to understand that.  afterall, you were the only person on this site that was still adament that wiiU was doing wonderfully and simply supply constraint when everyone else (even the most staunch nintendo fans) we're able to objectively see the evidence even if they didn't like the conclusions it pointed to.


You are definitely confused on a few things.

1.  That any 3D mario game is a 3D Mario game.  Or any Zelda is a Zelda.  This isn't true. That is the point.  Gamecube had Mario and Zelda, but they were versions with odd themes and styles that were very much geared toward children instead of the whole family.

2. That any Monolithsoft game is the same. X is not Baiten Kaitos.

3. That if games can't sell a late-to-market purple lunch box, they can't sell anything.  WiiU is not a purple lunch box, and it was first to market.

4. That WiiU didn't sell great at launch.  It did. It was selling at 88% of Wii numbers till Christmas.  That is exceptional sales, especially in a much tougher market than what Wii faced. People seem to forget this.  When I said it was selling through as it was shipped, it was.  Sales only tanked in January. Now it is overstocked.

and gamecube sales outpaced wii,.. that was until sales tanked in january.  people seem to forget this.

*NPD numbers.

 

and i think you are putting way to much into the color of the console and the title of a mario game.  but hey, does not matter what i think.  you'll be the one eating crow at the end of this year just like you did at the begining. 


Eating crow on what?  I said it was selling well before Christmas and it was.  I've said in the past don't judge the system until after it sells 5 million units.  I still say that. I say that about all systems.

And today I'm not saying Wii U will dominate.  What I'm saying is any problems it has are very different than gamecube.