So Mario Kart 8 isn't going to help boost sales of the Wii U huh?

[Zekkyou]

Nirvana_Nut85 said:

Zekkyou said:

Not saying it's impossible, but saying there is no chance of it not boosting the WiiU by 300%+ seems a bit silly to me. Still, you're free to believe whatever you like ^^

Increasing sales by 70k is not silly when they are currently at 30k. To believe otherwise is just foolish at best. If sales were 100-200k then 300% would not be reasonable. Let's change systems for a moment. If Halo 5 were to release tomorrow, do you not think that Xbox would be well over 200K for that week? Mario Kart 8 is that type of game. It would not be unreasonable to see sales increase by 5X for that week.

Again, I never said it wouldn't happen. I'm simply saying it's silly to say such a thing as fact. There is nothing wrong with people having healthy scepticism, even if something seems obvious.

Heck, people pretty much universally disagreed with the guy that predicted the WiiU would sell under 40m in its lifetime. Many said there was absolutely no chance of that happening. One guy even said he expected 20m sold by the end of 2013.

Look at us now ^^;