| Salnax said: When Watch Dogs becomes the biggest new franchise of the 8th gen, you'll all come to respect and fear me! ;-p |
Right, but not necessarily on Wii U, though. When was the last time a mature-themed third-party multiplatform game sold 4 or 5 million on a Nintendo platform?
Absolutely not going to happen.
BUT:
I think Mario 3D World is spot-on, but DKC is too high. 3D World will surely hit 2.5 by end of year, but DKC won't do nearly as well as the Wii version. Install base is like, 72 million fewer consoles than the Wii when DKCR released in November 2010. Wii U probably won't even be at 7 million pre- Thanksgiving.
Also, forgive me if you said this is in your OP and I'm just not seeing it, but are we talking US or Global sales? I'm talking US.
If you account for global sales, many of these games will do far better than any of our predictions. Home consoles have much higher attach rates of software than handhelds. I think Wind Waker HD is going to blow the pants off of most people's predictions, and in turn, it's going to be the surprise hit of the holidays before 3D World launches in December, just a couple weeks before Christmas.
I can't stress this enough, (and I believe pre-order numbers will back me up closer to October), Wind Waker HD for Wii U is going to do very well this year. Huge audience for that game in the US.
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