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Turkish on 12 May 2014
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DevilRising said:
Turkish said:
DevilRising said:
They're lowballing. It'll be over 10 million, probably on the way to 12 by mid-2015, thanks to Mario Kart, Smash Bros., and the by-then upcoming Zelda, likely a new Animal Crossing, etc.

They're lowballing on purpose so that it looks better when they surpass it.


They can't lowball to their investors. It isn't lowballing because the WIi U sold 2.72M units in 1 year with a pricecut, Donkey Kong,  Wii Fit U, Wii U Play and Mario 3D World. They're forecasting more than last year because of Smash bro and MK8, but they anticipate the impact will be rather small and thats where the 3.6M is coming from.


Perhaps you should listen to what you just said. Wii U had DK, Wii Fit, Wii Party, and Mario. A Mario game, by the way, while in spite of being awesome, many people were just not that enthusiastic for, because they felt it was too similar to 3D Land, and thus the hype was far less than it could have been, on account of many folks simply not considering 3D World to be the TRUE "next gen 3D Mario". So in other words, as has been stated many many many times before, Wii U, price cut or not, simply has NOT had the games to really sell it to the masses in droves. That is also to say nothing of the relative lack of serious ad media in NA.

And yes, they can/are "lowballing" their investors, at least in the sense that if they set their sales expectations low, and exceed them, it makes them come out smelling like roses. You act as if they're going to get in trouble for a twisting of honesty or something, when quite frankly, their OVER-optimistic sales forecast for last year was far too generous, and not being entirely honest, if you want to put it that way. So yeah, "lowballing" the expected figures is a far better approach. If they honestly didn't expect MK8 and SB to have that big of an impact, then why the hell would they even be bothering? They'd just do what so many of you have (hilariously, and erroneously) suggested, and pull a Sega, abandoning Wii U, and rushing out new hardware that would (obviously) magically change everything and do great.


lol. Wii U had Wii Fit U, Wii Play U, NSMBU, all these games sold 30 million copies on Wii. MK8 will have similar results on WiiU, it will not change anything. Smash Bros is not as big a franchise as is Zelda. They both sold less than 10m on Wii. On top of that, if Smash Bros wont do good, your excuse will be: "it was available on 3DS months before it came to WiiU so people already bought it!".

They cant lowball, period, lol why would they even lowball? Wii U isnt gonna sell any better in the coming year and Nintendo is expecting this.

Games or not, Wii U just isnt gonna turn its fortunes, the problem lie deeper than its software problem. I cant believe there are people who expect 1 or 2 single games to turn the fate of Wii U around.