Why Mario Kart 8 didn't save the WiiU

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padib said:

RolStoppable said:

That's easy to explain. Home consoles and handhelds, while similar in nature, do not serve absolutely identical jobs. Historic sales trends in Japan clearly show that the ceiling for handheld sales is much higher than for home consoles, especially in recent history. All things equal, a handheld should be able to sell more. One important difference between the 3DS and Wii is that the latter was incredibly deprived of quality content by third party publishers. Software drives hardware sales; without games, the whole controller thing becomes moot. The Wii went through incredibly long droughts during its lifetime while the 3DS has a much more robust release schedule.

The actual problem is that not only do you refuse to accept certain things (your opinion on the Mario Kart 8 hardware boost speaks volumes), you also have problems to connect the dots. I've talked about the latter with other members and they confirmed to me that they see it the same way.

If the Wii was incredibly deprived of quality content from 3rd party publishers, then how did it end up selling so well globally? I thought the controller thing becomes moot in such a case, but you're going to answer "It's the mote"...

Also, the 3DS has a similar library to the DS and is on its way to sell similar numbers in that region. What happens to the controller argument in that case?

You also often harp on the N64 and cube, but how do you explain the controller theory in this case (which you often lump up as being two duds):

Pos	Platform	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
13	Nintendo 64 (N64)	20.11	6.35	5.54	0.93	32.93
14	GameCube (GC)	12.55	4.44	4.04	0.71	21.74

How come the N64 sold better in NA than the cube did, but the cube sold almost as well as the 64 in the other regions. Is their psychological barrier different?

As for the 3DS, how does your controller argument apply to the discrepancy between regions.

Again the obvious truth is that it has nothing to do with the bottom line. If your friends agree with your way of thinking then they probably struggle with a similar logical issue to yours, waving blanket ideas across the board without considering the subtleties (like in this case differences between regions).

Because PS2