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sc94597 on 13 December 2013
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Einsam_Delphin said:
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The existence of the 3DS itself benefits the Wii U. People who play Nintendo franchises on the 3DS will want to play them on the Wii U.


I feel it's the other way around actually. Why pay $300+ to play NSMB when you can pay sub $200.

That works for a series that transcends platforms, but a game like say, SSB, will play better on consoles and people who play it on the 3DS will want to play it on a console. 


You haven't played the game to know that and nothing we've seen so far shows this. That last part will not likely be the case for the majority, and regardless it works both ways.

SSB biggest appeal is its local multiplayer. Even if the 3DS version takes off and does well, there will still be things the Wii U version does better (local multiplayer - don't need multiple 3DS' to play, etc, etc.) Furthermore, I have a feeling that Nintendo will make them work in tandem. As for the last part, it is true of SSB's audience, but since when were we talking about majorities? We were always talking about marginal boosts or losts in sales induced by a different game.  


I was always talking about the 3DS's existence hindering the Wii U's sales, and simply used NSMB as one example out of many. You then brought up SSB, which really has no weight here as we have no sales of a handheld version yet.

I made a deductive claim that NSMB is a game that transcends platforms and used an example of a game that doesn't transcend platforms, not as a refutation, but as an example of the difference between NSMB and other releases. There aren't many games that can be said to be the same on both the Wii U and 3DS, which is why I mentioned SSB (it should be analagous to NSMB2 and NSMB Wii U.) I do not use anecdotal examplse (like you had) because there is no inductive means to determine whether or not sales are affected from that particular fact, only deductive means. We cannot say whether or not NSMBU sold less because of the existence of the NSMB2, especially considering the sales of the games on the DS and Wii respectively, and considering the decline in the series in general. 

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=New+Super+Mario+Bros

What we can be certain of is that people who played the series before bought a Wii U for this game. Whether they played it on the Wii, 3DS, or DS is irrelevant.