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TheLastStarFighter on 02 December 2013
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Soundwave said:

Wii U is selling no where close to the N64.

As in not even in the same area code, ball part, soccer stadium, (whatever analogy you want to use).

The N64 actually sold fairly close to the original Wii in North America for its first 2 years. You could not find a N64 for holiday 1996, it was sold out everywhere, and its holiday 1997 was *monstrous*.

There is no GoldenEye equivalent (or even close) on the Wii U either and there likely never will be. 

Wii U is a lot closer to the GameCube, right now it probably needs Mario Kart 8 just to get to GameCube sales levels, as of right now its selling considerably worse.


This chart gives such a good summary of just how bad Wii U's software has been.  It also makes me think of how different things were when I was a child as I gobbled up the SNES launch lineup (which also had titles like SC4 and FF2(4) ) and was chomping at the bit for Zelda and SF2.  As an adult who doesn't have a tonne of gaming time, I barely noticed the Wii U drought... but I digress.  On the plus-side, at least 2014 looks more like the launch years of the earlier systems, with MK8, DK, SSB, X, B2 and others.