Are Pikmin 3 FW sales proof enough for you that the Wii U is not doomed?

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To be honest Dragon Quest X caused a (very slightly) larger hardware bump than Pikmin 3 did. Media Create numbers:

Dragon Quest X week - 22.829 (33.3k DQX sold)

Pikmin 3 week - 22.199 (92.7k Pikmin 3 sold)


That's kinda disappointing. Pikmin 3 sold ok for itself, but really didn't move hardware all that much.

I think that's one of the problems with Nintendo franchises is there's a lot of overlap in terms of the fanbases that don't create the hardware spikes you might expect. The fans of Pikmin are probably the fans of Mario for example.

You need things like Monster Hunter and Wii Sports and GoldenEye 64 to bring in non-Nintendo fans.