W101 is going to be a gargantuan flop

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the_dengle said:

Let's look at other Platinum Games releases... Madworld didn't sell 30k lifetime in Japan... Infinite Space didn't sell 200k global lifetime... Anarchy Reigns hasn't sold 300k across two platforms... why should people expect this to be the next Bayonetta or Vanquish? It could sell decently for a Platinum Title. It doesn't need half a million sales to not be a flop.

Not to flop as a game, yes, but to help Wii U shake off it's reputation as a flopping system W101 was a bit of a flag waver for Nintendo, and it needs to sell not only itself but it also needs to sell systems. It it fails to sell half to 1 million then it might still make platinum games som money, but Nintendo won't be very pleased with the result.

79 Meta isn't a guaranteed hit. But it's still a good metascore. If it's a genuinely good game that some critics don't seem to get it should still sell pretty well.

Nintendo need to do something fresh with it's long established franchises, something like they did with Super Mario Galaxy on Wii. Perhaps the HD Zelda game will be the thing that makes Wii U really take off.