Sonic will be a system seller?

[sth88]

zippy said:

sth88 said:
I'm a HUGE Sonic fan, but even I have to admit that he doesn't move hardware anymore. He's doing much better now than he was 5 years ago, and I'm always excited to hear about new Sonic news, even when it's on a platform I don't own (like Lost World on the Wii U), but the mass market doesn't flock to him anymore, and if they ever do again it probably won't be anytime soon, if for no other reason than that platformers as a whole aren't system sellers anymore. The only one who still comes close is Mario, and even his power has weakened; NSMBU is considered a fine 2D Mario platformer, and yet the Wii U has stagnated ever since the initial launch rush ended.

If the new sonic turns out to be the best yet, would that tempt you to get a Wii U?

Yes, if Lost World (or some other Wii U-exclusive core Sonic platformer) turned out to be that good I would very seriously consider a Wii U purchase, but I wouldn't pick it up for a few years until I could get the console at a cheap price (probably $200 or less).  Same goes with the PS4 and any exclusives I might be interested on that platform.  Picking up the Xbox One sometime next year is my first priority, as that is where I expect I will play most of the games I want to play over the course of the next generation (and I fully expect to see some Sonic games for the X1 in the future).