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JWeinCom on 15 January 2014
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lucidium said:
JWeinCom said:
lucidium said:
JWeinCom said:


O_o... so... we shouldn't count the sales because Nintendo sold it at the price they wanted to sell it at? 

Not sure how else to make it any clearer to you.

Japan sold 3.7m, elsewhere was bundled with every console.
Nintendo aggressively priced the game since it was included for free elsewhere
Nintendo aggressively advertised the game since it was receiving heavy media attention elsewhere (due to being included free)

You are taking A (japanese sales in the existing climate) and trying to use them to calculate B (US/EU sales in a different climate), without factoring in the effects climate B would have had on A.

It isn't rocket science.

Marketing and pricing is part of what made the game a success.  Nintendo could have, and likely would have, marketed it heavily and priced it aggressively in the US if it wasn't bundled. 

Perhaps so, but as it was bundled virtually everywhere except japan, the best anyone can do is guess what the sales would have been, and how it could have effected the console overall.

Imagine they bundled Super Mario 3D Land with the WiiU instead of shitty Nintendoland?

Yeah, obviously that was nothing more than a guess.

I actually thought Nintendo Land was a really cool game that made sense as a launch title as it really showed off the potential of the Gamepad.  It's a case of a good product with the wrong marketing.  They really should have probably kept the Wii branding on it, and used the same general idea with less of the Nintendo stuff layered on.  I think the heavy slathering of Nintendo properties made the game less accessible to newcomers.  Some of the games also had to be simplified a bit.

Super Mario 3D World would have helped the system sell better, but I'm honestly not sure it would have been too drastic of a difference.  Super Mario 3D World is a great game, but it doesn't really have the novelty factor that Wii Sports did.  It would have sped up the adoption rate of hardcore Nintendo fans, but it wouldn't really win over the more casual wii owners where Nintendo is really struggling.