POE said:
Soundwave said:
POE said:
Soundwave said:
Slarvax said:
I think Wii U could do 60 million at best, but no less than 30 million. The thing is, I don't understand the reason Wii U isn''t selling. Free online, quality titles, actual innovation, backwards compatible, and nothing behind a paywall! Yes, there's not good third party support, but what happened to the +30 million people who bought MarioKart Wii, or +10 million people who bought SSBB/ SMG?
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Well saying you don't understand why the system isn't selling probably makes your estimates fairly off base.
The system is trending considerably below the GameCube right now which fizzled at around 22 million.
It NEEDS Mario + Mario Kart just to sell at GameCube levels I think. Right now it's way below -- case in point, October 2013 NPD for Wii U is 50k-60k (lets be nice and say it was on the highest end, so 59k). The GameCube sold 168k it's second October by comparision, that's more than double.
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Yes, but by that date, the Gamecube already had a Super Smash Bros (released at launch) and a 3D Mario (Mario Sunshine, July of 2002). So that comparisson is bullshit.
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Yet NSMB Wii outsold Melee + Sunshine by several times over. 2D Mario is a bigger franchise.
But yeah OK, lets keep pushing the "all it needs is EVEN MORE Mario", thing, lol. Don't get me wrong I think Mario 3D World will help (it can't make things worse), but I get the feeling its going to be a bit of a wake up call for some when it doesn't "save" the system.
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Thank god you said that. Now when the turn around happens it will be very pleasant to talk to you.
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When you say "turn around" what exactly do you mean? That it will start selling higher than the GameCube? The N64? When exactly? This month?
Keeping these things vague allows for the arbitrary and constant moving of goal posts that's already been happening all year.
3D World is a great game, but it's not like NSMBU was a dog turd either. It was a high quality game (probably the best 2D Mario since Super Mario World), so was Nintendo Land for that matter (far deeper and more polished than Wii Sports).
