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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

I think banking on Wii Party/Fit/Sports Club this holiday to sell consoles is a mistake. People aren't going to pay $300 to experience that ... that was 5-7 years ago now, people have moved on to other things and if they want that type of experience they can always dust off their existing Wii. You can see for example Just Dance isn't putting up big numbers on the Wii U ... why buy a Wii U to play that game when you can get it on your existing Wii? 

Mario needs some help and Nintendo isn't giving it to him, it's like a sports team that's asking its star player to do everything and exhausting him while not putting a good team around him so that he can win.

It's more like a team owner that left the stadium to rot. While people don't dislike the team, they don't want to set a foot in that junkyard of a stadium in order to see the team play.

I am pretty sure that if Nintendo accompanied SM3DW with Metroid, F-Zero and Star Fox, you would call it an amazing lineup that is guaranteed to kickstart the Wii U.

That would be an amazing lineup for me since I love F-Zero and Star Fox more than even Zelda, but even that wouldn't neccessarily be the greatest lineup because it would be selling to the same core group of Nintendo faithful.

Why not try a new franchise? One that was marketable? Nintendo's far too conservative with their software lineup. Even with the casual games ... Brain Training and Nintendogs and Wii Sports were completely new ideas for the time, it's odd that they're not trying that many new off the wall concepts either. They seem scared of the smartphone boom.