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curl-6 on 22 July 2014
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spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

Oh please, were you even on this site in 2009 when MH3 launched? It moved plenty of hardware. As for TP, you only have to look at the hype for it among the gamers who dismissed WW.


Yet WW still sold 4.6m on the GCN. Hype is nothing but a crowd cheer in cases like that. TP sold because of motion controls during the dawn of the Wii, not because it was "gritty." A WW lookalike would have done the same.

When Wii got a resounding 100K boost that dropped back to below the Wii's base line two weeks later when Tri launched in Japan, it's most successful area. So basically 100-150K extra japanese people bought a Wii for Monster Hunter Tri. When it came out in the west, the Wii numbers dropped when Tri came out for the next two weeks. The Wii sold less with MHT.

100K WW for a console that went on to sell over 100m is not "plenty of hardware." Don't get excitable.

A WW lookalike would have done nothing of the short. No toon Zelda since has. There was simply no alternative when WW came out.

Tri became one of the main reasons for Japanese gamers to buy Wii, which by the way went up 300% on Tri's release and did not drop to its prior Japanese level for 5 weeks, not 2, not to mention many Wii purchases prior to Tri were in preparation for it. Hell, even a demo of it with Monster Hunter G boosted Wii sales 36% months earlier.

Like Nintendo, you can bury your head in the sand and sing "lalalala gamers only want cartoon games lalalala" but that won't make it true. Look around you. Times have changed.