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Experimental42 on 23 July 2014
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OttoniBastos said:


no it isn't! 50k baseline is not good! The only reason why people are happy with this is because WiiU was even worse!(30k last year)

If mario kart that is the biggest release this year on WiiU didn't make it sell 100k/week,do you really think Hyrule warrior or bayonetta will do?

Smash brothers will be released first on 3ds so don't count with this too.

There's no need to be Captain Obvious. Of course 60k per week isn't going gangbusters, but look at it how it is. A "dead" console that Nintendo "should move on to its next console" from has doubled its baseline with a single game, and is currently in better shape than Microsoft's XB1 even after it's $100 price drop. If you were expecting a sudden 100k baseline from a single game you were a fool. Hyrule Warriors and Bayonetta likely won't be massive successes, but they will be good for the system. Bayonetta will likely sell a disproportionately large amount of systems for its sales numbers too, simply because of the audience it attracts.

You don't write a system off as "not saved" until it's current, gigantic upward trend stops. You should probably hold off on that assumption until the Wii U is technically fully released, as the NFC portion of the machine, there since the beginning, hasn't even been released yet. The amiibo is a potential miracle worker. It has a massive almost completely untapped market, can add 10-15 dollars to what a person would pay for a game traditionally, and can reignite MK8 sales.

I'm not saying any of this will happen, I'm just saying come down from the podium with your doom crying until it's an appropriate time.

 

Also, a lot of people seem to be misinterprating what I'm saying. I'm not saying third party games will not sell on XB1. I'm saying nobody will buy an XB1 exclusively for third party multiplats as they would for the PS4. If you have to preface your argument with, "people will settle for lower quality multiplats if they get (insert first party exclusive here)" then it wasn't the third party games selling the player on the system, it was the first party game, and you've proven my point. I'm not flaming here, I'm just pointing out an obvious and observable trend that a large majority of people seem to be overlooking, as seen by the backlash and defensiveness of many people on this topic.