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nitekrawler1285 on 23 September 2013
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zorg1000 said:
nitekrawler1285 said:
I think it's very plausible. Even if the holidays are 66% of Wii U sales that isnt very much. As of now that would be 2-3 million sales in addition to it's paltry 3.5 million sold. 2D Mario cant sell the system so I'm not convinced 3D Mario can Multiplayer or not. WWHD I cant see sell a console. It couldn't sell the Gamecube which was way cheaper and had some decent games at least. DK:TF might help but it doesn't really have the overall library to compliment it that the first had. In addition to a strong holiday lineup the other consoles have strong libraries coming up Q1 of next year. I suppose the Wii U has a better lineup coming next year but we will see how it compares.


2D Mario has sold the system, how many Wii Us would be sold if NSMBU wasnt on it? Also its not one single game that sells a console, in the next three months Wii U has 8 exclusives that belong to multimillion selling franchises. Wind Waker HD, Sonic Lost World, Wii Party U, Wii Fit U, Wii Sports Club, Mario & Sonic Olympics, DKC Tropical Freeze, Mario 3D World. Alone none of those games will do much but combined in a short amount of time in addition to price cut, new bundles, marketing and holidays should give Wii U decent sales for the next few months.


You must understand.  Ive purchased a console for one game. Sometimes 2 games. Had Dragon's Dogma not come along the PS3 may have never been worth the purchase as I'm still waiting on that game I bought it for. So I can tell you that to this enthusiast 1 game is enough. The promise of one game is enough. Though this new wound inflicted with TLG has me rethinking that stance. 

I wasn't aware of the full roster it appears but I cant imagine most of those drastically changing much of anything. Sonic long ago lost it's luster and Im not sure that isn't the case with all of them sans maybe DK. Galaxy 2 made it seem like the 3D Mario series is in a decline sales wise. I can't see the Wii series games being nearly as successful. Especially how Wii series fans were left without software so swiftly other than Tamagotchi and AC we havent seen anywhere near the same effect from expanded audience software which I would argue those 2 series arent mass market expanded audience whatever you would call them as their fan base of millions had been around prior and just gained popularity in portable format like MH. This line up might be able to lift holiday season sales to something less lackluster.  I would honestly think we may be comparing it to the Vita's holiday season last year as the closest system of reference.  .