binary solo said:
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. |
I don't follow any part of this. Look at Platinum's past titles and try to convince me that any one of them was ever considered so much as a potential system-seller. They make niche games. You really think Nintendo was counting on this game specifically selling Lego City Undercover numbers and noticeably boosting hardware sales?
Every console has dozens of little niche games like this. It's silly to put any kind of weight on W101. Like suggesting that Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir was supposed to sell big and really push the 3DS, that it was a huge flop because it didn't have a Star Fox/Metroid/Kirby/etc -level effect on hardware sales.
People are just looking at the timing of the W101 release and saying Nintendo must intend for it to be a big part of their Holiday Wii U strategy, ignoring that it was in development before the Wii U was even released, before Nintendo knew what their situation would be at this time. It's just a game they funded coming out during a tumultuous time for their console. They aren't suddenly putting the weight of the world on its shoulders. The task of selling the Wii U falls on their big Holiday titles: Mario, Donkey Kong, Wii Fit, Wii Party, hell even Wind Waker is probably going to sell better and push more consoles than Pikmin and W101 combined.
