| Rogerioandrade said: Mario games normally have strong legs. Even on WiiU. SNMBU still figures among the 15 best sellers more than a year after its original launch (currently n. 13), although probably the bundles are helping. What really doesn´t make sense to me is: why Nintendo doesn´t drop the price of the WiiU in Japan as it did in the West ? That surely would help. |
The disappointment with Mario sales is in comparison to other 3D Mario games. Having strong legs only makes a difference if they are as strong or stronger than those titles. Also the bundles are the only reason NSMBU is in the top 15, before it was hanging around outside the top 50. NSMB2 had been roughly doubling NSMBU all year before the bundles and has been in the 3k range these past few weeks. That kind of ties back to my first point. In general, that would be good legs for Japan, but being a Mario game it'll be compared to Mario games. NSMB DS didn't drop below 20k for a year and didn't see sustained sales as low as NSMB2 until 2009.
The falling yen has made a western price drop more feasible than a price drop in Japan. At $350 a year ago, the Wii U was bringing in 28,700 yen. Today at $300 it is 30,600 yen.k By the same token if they are manufacturing Wii U's outside of Japan it will cost more Yen than it did a year ago.
