curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:
Of course its not over yet. It's still too expensive for much of its target audience, and Smash Bros isn't out yet.
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Define "quite well". If by "quite well" you mean a distant third place and sub-GameCube level sales, sure it'll do "quite well". It did "quite well" last holiday season too. Even saying YoY sales are better well pretty much every console has better sales its third holiday season over its second, so that's some special attribute that applies only to the Wii U (not that it's really that difficult to improve on such low sales to begin with).
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Distant third is by no means guaranteed at this point.
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It's gaurunteed. It won't match GameCube sales, so unless Microsoft starts shipping each XB1 with cancer, they will comfortably beat it in the end even if the X1 only sells 30% of what the XBox 360 did.
If Mario Kart cannot generate extended momentum for a console, then really the truth is they are beyond screwed here. You should be seeing a much stronger response from the market to games like MK8 and 3D World if there was going to be an actual turnaround here. Not just a one month bump to above 100k.
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Mario Kart did generate extended momentum. We're more than 3 months in and it is still comfortably above its old baseline, even with the console too expensive for the majority of MK's target audience. It's already competitive with Xbone in weekly sales, and still ahead of it in total sales.
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59k two months post-Mario Kart is not "momentum". That's called sh*tty sales.
Just because it was even worse last year doesn't make that number any better.
The Gamecube never sold under 60k/month until like 2005 when Nintendo was winding it down.
But it just goes to show my point -- what we consider a "decent/good" month for the Wii U ("momentum") would've been seen as a terrible month even for the GameCube. Which tells you a lot. Lowered expectations galore. Believe me there's no one at Nintendo's HQ in Japan that's happy with those sales.
