August 2013 NPD Thread! - 360:96k

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osed125 said:

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osed125 said:
I really don't know what you expected. Aside of gaming forums (which obviously don't count) there was absolutely no hype for the game, thus the reason why there was no boost in hardware. Having a 2x increase in Japan didn't mean anything. 

September even with a price cut won't really be that much different really, mostly because the price cut comes so late into the month. October till the end of the year sales will be more meaningful. 

Well we've been sold this "all it needs is games!" line for months now, in Feburary it had no games really released and it sold 66k, this month it gets Pikmin 3 and Splinter Cell and can barely top 30k, virtually a zero month on month increase.

The question now really is becoming how much different this is than the GameCube if at all. Right now it's far worse than the GameCube, I think it will need that price cut + all those "bigger" games just to match up to what the GameCube was doing circa 2002/2003.

One game won't do anything, unless it's an extremely popular franchise (which Pikmin was not) and even with only one game, a boost can only last so long. February was different because the Wii U was still in the "launch window" period and people were still buying the launch games, that obviously wasn't going to last very long. If you thought Splinter Cell was going to boost the HW then you have bring yourself to the world of reality. 

Are we really that sure that 3D Mario (and not of the Mario 64/Galaxy variety that everyone seemed to want) and DKC are any more popular of a franchise over the NSMB series?

They better be at this rate, because Nintendo doesn't seem to have any other bullets in their gun left for the rest of the year other than a 10 year old GameCube game.

Pikmin 3 is probably the 4th or 5th "biggest" Wii U title of the year.