MDMAlliance said:
DucksUnlimited said:
Einsam_Delphin said:
DucksUnlimited said:
Hard to say. If the Wii U ends the holiday with 5m+ and early 2014 software enables it to maintain a healthy baseline it could get there first. Otherwise, probably PS4. |
If DK and MK along with whatever else get's released doesn't keep the Wii U baseline stable, then I won't even know what to say lol. |
I know! But I thought the same about a lot of the Wii U's software so far, and look how that's turned out. I don't exactly have a lot of faith at this point, even with DK and MK being as big as they are. |
Let's be honest about this year's software for Wii U. There was almost nothing for the first half of the year. Wonderful 101 was a new IP. Pikmin has a really small userbase and never had a big opening week. Wind Waker HD is a remake of an existing Zelda game that was on a system that didn't really sell amazingly either. 3rd party userbase on Nintendo systems has historically been lower than its competition. 2D and 3D Mario platformers are games that sell over time, and even then they DID sell a decent number of systems (meaning I think that without New Super Mario Bros U, the Wii U would be even lower), and Super Mario 3D World only recently released. While it didn't do amazing numbers, all things considered, it didn't really do poorly. Japan's numbers for 3D Mario platformers are low on opening weeks anyway.
However, Mario Kart is slated for an early 2014 release. If it does so, it will have time to (at least slowly) rack up the hardware sales. Given the userbase for Mario Kart games, there's no doubt it would move more hardware weekly for 2014 than 2013. Then each other game releasing for Wii U will give at least a relatively substantial boost, moreso than the other games for 2013. Of course, I say all of this in hindsight, but there is much more to support that the Wii U will sell much better 2014 than it did this year. Plus, December should be a relatively big month for the Wii U.
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While most of the games that have released so far aren't huge sellers, it's still crazy to me that a console with all of them combined is looking to barely scrape past 2m sold in an entire year. I have no doubt that the Wii U will do notably better in 2014 than 2013, and I never suggested otherwise.
