Seece said:
Soundwave said:
Vena said:
Soundwave said:
They have Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, a better main bundle (NSMBU for $299.99), DKC, Rayman, Wii Party U, Zelda: WWHD, etc. this year over last year though ... really they've spent pretty much all their big guns except Smash Brothers, which like Mario Kart 8 will likely be good for a 2 month boost and then they're basically screwed again.
Things like Bayonetta 2 as much I personally would love for it to do well, are not going to do diddly squat for the baseline.
Wii U is just a mediocre selling console, that's all there really is to it.
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No one should have an illusion of the WiiU doing anything but possibly NGC numbers if that and finishing in a distant third, but what should be obvious is that the system will not have nine month long droughts of gamelessness and baselines to match. It will end up as a system with low sales and a fat library of solid games, probably positive in profits by the end of the generation and with a likely high adoption rate for software. (And it won't single handedly kill the entire Japanese home console market and development ala PS3.)
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I think we need to kill this "Wii U is kinda selling like GameCube" fallacy. It's not. It's selling far worse in the US.
The Wii U's "normal" month equals what would've been considered a terrible month for the GameCube.
The Wii U has already put up something like 16-17 months of sub-100k sales in North America. It basically only goes over 100k for Nov/Dec each year and for one month with Mario Kart.
The GameCube had 5 total months under 100k at the same point in its life cycle in North America. But sub-100k is basically the norm for the Wii U even with several of Nintendo's bigger IP (Mario Kart, 2D Mario, 3D Mario, DKC, Wii series, etc.). It will be under 100k again in September even with Hyrule Warriors.
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Not just US, but shipments, WiiU is trailing by like 4m?
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If it isn't it almost certainly will by the end of this year as the GameCube had a huge holiday 2003, no way the Wii U can match it even with Smash Bros.
The gap is growing not shrinking.