| S.Peelman said: It most definitely didn't bomb. Combined and alligned it's first week is 100k and it's at 160k now plus downloads. On a userbase of 3m and while being a casual game ('for kids', as you put it), that not bad in any sense. This game will have long legs, will definitely reach 500k and has a good shot of reaching at least a million. Moreover, the game more than doubled WiiU hardware sales. I think everybody's happy for now. |
By what definition is Lego City Undercover a casual game? This is a large scale open world game with tons of collectibles, bonus objectives etc. I also don't think this was solely aimed at children - the sense of humor and all the hints and jokes about old school tv shows and movies would say otherwise.
After seeing this at E3 I was not excited about the game at first but I decided to buy it because there is literally nothing coming up for me on WiiU within the next few months. So far this game is awesome - definitely a pleasant surprise. It's (too) easy to put this off as a children's game but even when you read some of the reviews you will see how much fun the (adult) journalists had with this game 
But what's with all the stories about shortages? It seems to be affecting an awful lot of Nintendo games lately. Is this their strategy to promote digital downloads? If so they had better included a larger storage on WiiU... I just can't believe Nintendo is suddenly unable to provide enough discs to supply demand created by a mere 3 Mil. WiiU owners worldwide...
