| chocoloco said: I think PS3 will sell better than the bone and both will be much greater than the Wii U. Remember when 2D Mario was the in thing to win a gen from Nintendo fanatics? I do. The Wii U has it now and is selling like a turtle. I do not think Mario Kart, nor Smash Bros will do much for it. |
You're ignoring one very important piece of data: attach rate.
The Wii U sold 3+ million units between it's mid-November launch, and the end of December 2013. That's less than two months. Those are really strong sales. NSMBU, despite Nitendo being dumb and putting NSMB 2 on 3DS out just a few months prior, in that same time frame sold around half the system sales numbers. Since then, since the software drought happened, the Wii U hasn't even managed to sell 1 million units in the nearly 8 months of 2013. Odds are, it's actual sales as of this very moment, are somewhere just under about 4 million units. I'd guess 3.7/3.8 or so. As of early August, NSMBU had sold just over 2 million copies. That means that over half of all current Wii U owners bought that game, and that's only retail sales.
So while it's certainly not on par with the mega-sales of NSMB DS or Wii, you must also keep in mind that selling 28 or more million copies for those games, still only accounted for less than a third of DS or Wii total sales. Still a very good attach-rate, but the fact is, the attach rate for NSMBU, as of this exact moment, is better. Who knows how well the game will continue to sell once more people start actually picking the console up again, but 2D Mario games have had a history of "great legs".
