Is Donkey Kong tropical freeze going to not break a million in sales lifetime?

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Mummelmann said:

zorg1000 said:

Mummelmann said:
Japan only? No, not 1 million, perhaps 500-600k or so. Globally though? Shouldn't be a problem at all, wouldn't be surprised if it sold over 1.5 million either, or even close to 1.8-2 million with the severe thirst for good titles on the system. Most likely though; 1.4-1.6 million.

I think even 2 million is selling this game short. Look at the how well Donkey Kong games did on Gamecube.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat-1.34 million

Donkey Konga-1.15 million

These were spinoff titles that used Bongo controllers. Also consider that Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart, Smash Bros all sold around 6-7 million and Wind Waker, Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing all sold 3-5 million.

Donkey Kong Country sold 9.3 million on an install base of 49.10 million, Donkey Kong 64 sold 5.27 million on an install base of 32.93 million. Both of those 15-20% attach ratio. If that trend remained on Gamecube, it would have sold at least 3 million.

Also the flagship Mario game on SNES/N64 sold a little over double of DK on those consoles. 20.61 vs 9.30 on SNES and 11.89 vs 5.27 on N64. Sunshine sold 6.31 million on GC, so again following this trend DK would have sold about 3 million.

Now with all that said, Wii U is not Gamecube and is currently doing worse in the same time frame. Wii U is on track to sell about 15 million at the rate its going or about 2/3 of Gamecube lifetime sales. If we assume that a traditional DK sells over 3 million on Gamecube than it should sell over 2 million on Wii U.

That's the thing though; I think many of these franchises are losing their hold after all these years. Selling the same mascots and concepts to an ever changing audience in challenging. Donkey Kong isn't a household name today, only nerds like us and aging gamers really know much what it's all about and I can't jelp but think that this will be yet another hardcore Nintendo fan hit and not much else. But, as I said in my post; it might climb to 2 million as well, who knows?

Regardless of that though; this will be an amazing game.

How does that go against anything I said? My post shows that from SNES to N64 to GC hardware fell and so did the Mario & Donkey Kong franchises.