Nintendo's FY2014 Projections for Wii U Software: DAFUQ?

[Cheebee]

Soundwave said:

Cheebee said:

Soundwave said:

38 million is in line with the 3DS' second year, but I think they'll miss this target.

The 3DS had Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, Zelda: OoT, Nintendogs that fiscal year.

The Wii sold 119 million software units its second fiscal year, lol, wowza. Catching lightning in a bottle indeed.

WiiU will have Mario Kart, 3D Mario and Zelda WW HD this fiscal year. Plus Wii Fit U, and Wii U Party, and Pikmin 3, and maybe stuff like whatever Retro's working on, Wonderful 101, X and Bayonetta 2. Who knows, they might surprise us all and even give us Smash Bros. before the fiscal year's over... And that's on top of evergreen stuff that will keep on selling, like NSMBU and Nintendoland. If anything, WiiU's lineup is far, far superior to the 3DS one back then.

Yeah they can probably reach it. 38 million as someone else pointed out actually isn't that much. Thought the Wii U won't sell as much as the 3DS did its second year, consoles tend to have a higher software attach rate than handhelds do.

And as someone else pointed out the PS3 sold about the same amount of software it's second year, and it was really selling like a dog in those days too.

I don't know if I'd say the lineup is "far superior", it's pretty similar actually. Zelda: OoT > Zelda: MM in terms of sales appeal too IMO.

Yeah I guess they should be able to do it. If they don't pull any weird moves like they do sometimes, you never know with Nintendo.

Anyway, I'd call it far superior, because yes, the trio of MK, 3D Mario and a Zelda remake are pretty much -exactly- the same as the 3DS games were, except 3DS didn't get much else that fiscal year. WiiU will have all of the other games I mentioned above, on top of those 3 heavy hitters.