Will good holiday 2013 sales from the Wii U help bring 3rd party games to the system next year?

[Soundwave]

the_dengle said:

Soundwave said:

If Nintendo can match the holiday sales of the GameCube from fall 2002 (its second holiday season), I think more or less that'll be a win in Nintendo's eyes, because so far for the year it's been trending below the GCN.

In America, maybe. In Japan they are going to destroy the GameCube.

The Japanese lineup isn't that great to be honest.

Sonic, Rayman are non-factors. So are the Western titles that Nintendo does have.

Mario 3D World is ok, but Japan tends to prefer 2D Mario pretty decidely, so I don't see that helping Wii U more than NSMBU did.

Wii Fit U and Wii Party U need to still have a market there, but I'm somewhat doubtful on that. DKC is a decent seller, but again DKC generally sells less than 2D Mario, it's basically a "diet" version of 2D Mario as far as sales go there.

The Japanese third party support is *horrible*. For people crapping on Western third parties, the Japanese support is far worse. Nothing major from Konami, Square-Enix, Capcom, Bandai-Namco, etc.