Nintendo Can Solve All Its Wii U Problems With Metroid

[kupomogli]

TruckOSaurus said:

kupomogli said:
Actually. Disregard my last comment saying no. Even though Metroid and Kirby sell the least of all Nintendo properties they probably push more systems than a Mario game would. As I've said before, Mario games don't really sell consoles. People buy them because they're on the system.

Metroid, Kirby, and Zelda titles rarely come along and while not selling a lot, these games are actually system sellers. These games would push fans of the series to atleast buy the console. Even if they don't sell much, they get those die hard fans to buy the games. That gets more consoles which gets Mario to make more random sales here and there.

Do you honestly think that if the Wii U released with a Metroid game instead of New Super Mario Bros. U, it would have had better sales?

Maybe.  I know there are a lot of Metroid fans who would have bought the Wii U just for a new Metroid game.  

How about this, I'll wait until Super Mario 3D World is released.  If the Wii U sells a lot more once that's released, I'll agree that Mario sells systems and NSMBU didn't sell more systems because it was the only title at the time that people wanted.  If it's just a small sales spike and SM3DW sales are high, I'll continue to think that people just buy Mario games because they're on the system and they already have it.