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Soundwave on 16 January 2014
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superhippy420 said:
Soundwave said:
superhippy420 said:
Soundwave said:
Sounds like Wii U numbers might be above 460k which wouldn't be as bad as thought, though not exactly something to throw a party over either (GameCube did better than that basically in every December it had).

 

Gamecube also had Zelda/Metroid/Mario/Luigis Mansion/Pikmin/Smash Bros/Mario Kart/Starfox and a bunch of other great games in the 1st 18 months.   The numbers the Wii U is putting out considering there is only 1 or 2 console sellers (SM3DW and NSMBU) for the 1st 14 months is actually not that bad.   Wii U should be killing Gamecubes numbers next December unless Smash Bros gets delayed.


Hope springs eternal. GameCube had $99 and Mario Kart its third Christmas, Wii U ain't matching that. 

Wii Party U, Wii Sports Club, and Pikmin 3 are on the Wii U too and Zelda was not out on the GCN at this point outside of Japan, nor was StarFox. 


We will just have to wait and see.  The Gamecube sold 7 million copies each of Smash Bros and Mario Kart, and without those 2 the console may have sold unless 10 million.  Wii U is at 5.3 million without either already.  I'm not saying Wii U will outsell PS4 or anything, but I think it is going to end up with N64 number, not gamecube numbers.


N64 is raping the Wii U right now (sorry there's no other way to put it), if Nintendo hopes to have the Wii U start selling at N64 levels any time soon they're going to need something even more than Mario Kart and Smash Bros IMO.