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curl-6 on 29 March 2013
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NightDragon83 said:
curl-6 said:
NightDragon83 said:
curl-6 said:
NightDragon83 said:
ironmanDX said:
So software on the ps360 and ps4 and neXtbox will sell them but software on the WiiU will not.... Right...

Mario is a hardware selling God.

Ummm... didn't the Wii U launch with a Mario title?  And not just any Mario title, but a 2D installment?

So if Mario is a hardware selling God, and the Wii U received the latest 2D installment in the best selling franchise of all time, then why have the Wii U's sales been in the toilet since pretty much the end of the holidays last year?

The Wii U is out of the price range of NSMB's prime audience; parents buying for their kids. And almost nobody buys a console for just ONE game.

You sure about that?

That was 7/12 years ago, and only because they brought in new audiences. With the vast majority of sysem sellers (and even with these two to a degee) there have to be other desirable games on the platform AS WELL AS the system seller. Wii U doesn't have a desierable libary to back up NSMBU yet.

I'm not arguing whether or not the Wii U has a desirable library (it doesn't), I was merely pointing out that people have in the past and will continue in the future to buy a gaming console for one game.  Games that have done so in the past for their respective consoles are the original Super Mario Bros, Sonic 1 + 2, Mario 64, Halo, SSBM, and Wii Sports.

Most people don't want to play just one game though, especially when it means buying a $350 system; if the system has no other desirable games, most gamers will be put off. For instance, people wouldn't have rushed out to buy Wiis for NSMBWii if it didn't also offer Wii Sports, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, etc.