The Wii U will outsell the GC with just America

[zorg1000]

padib said:

zorg1000 said:

Im not so sure Nintendos franchises have grown that much look at NSMB on 3DS and Wii U, both are going to be down massively compared to last gen. Also Mario 3D World, its tracking behind every other 3D Mario game, even Sunshine which only sold 6.3m and released when GC had a similar install base to Wii U. Pikmin 3 doesnt look like it will sell better than the previous installments. Donkey Kong/Zelda/Metroid/Kirby all stayed relatively the same as the N64/GC era.

Do u have any examples other than Mario Kart 7 that shows Nintendo games growing?

I do, we have to realize that Mario really is the exception because it's currently over-saturated as a franchise.

Fire emblem on 3DS is doing much better so far. Small numbers, but the relative growth is what counts.

Animal Crossing is doing much better than the gamecube days

Smash is another example, the best-selling version was on the Wii sold almost double what sold for melee.

Twilight princess is another, which sold nearly as much as OoT despite the cube version, and outsold WW by almost 2 times.

I think that's enough to be honest.

The thing is u guys are trying to say that Wii/DS have caused those franchises to grow since the GC era. We dont know yet if they really have grown or they just benefitted from a vastly larger install base.

Animal Crossing only saw slight growth on Wii compared to GC, there wasnt a GBA version to compare the handheld versions but the 3DS version likely wont pass the DS version.

As for Smash ot did see big growth but the next one is split among 2 platforms whoch could potentially eat into each others sales 

Twilight Princess sold less than Ocarina and Skyward Sword sold about the same as Majora despite 3x the install base