Soundwave said:
Einsam_Delphin said:
Michael-5 said:
spurgeonryan said:
The game sold about 100,000 in it's first few days in Japan.
It did not give the Wii U a huge boost, but this is just one game. One game a month and the Wii U all of a sudden shoots up.
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This is also only one week, if Wii U sales drop back down to 10,000 units weekly, no progress is made.
Actually, after Pikmin 3's release, I'm a bit worried for the Wii U. I thought Pikmin 3, the first AAA exclusive for the Wii U, would have boosted sales a lot more in Japan. I thought hardware would have gone to 40,000 units or so, not just 22,200.
I just hope this is enough to keep Wii U sales a bit higher, I now can't see Wii U outselling the PS3/360 until PS4/One or Super Mario 3D Worlds releases, and after the holidays I'm not longer confident that sales will continue to hold.
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P.S. It's actually 2 games because Super Luigi U released on the same day, and now Japan has nothing for over a month.
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It's just one game though, and as NSMBU has shown, it's gonna take much more than that. I believe most people buy systems for a collection of games, not solely just for one specific game. Pikmin 3 is a great game and it'll certainly help, but the Wii U's library as a whole is still very much lacking, and so it will continue to sell mediocre until this is fixed. |
Still, New Super Mario Bros. U + New Luigi U, Pikmin 3, and Nintendo Land are three pretty major efforts from EAD (granted I think they could've tried harder on Mario, but oh well).
This ain't Steel Diver, Nintendogs, and Pilotwings Resort level. The system should be doing OK, at least better than the Dreamcast was doing in Japan its first year but it's well behind. I think home consoles are becoming extinct in Japan altogether sadly. |
True those games sure beat out their initial line-up for 3DS even if you include the later released Ocarina 3D, however there's others factors such as price, advertising, game release consistency, and competition, all of which much worse for Wii U than for 3DS. And yeah Japan definitely favors handhelds for some reason. :L
