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I3LuEI3omI3eR on 12 October 2014
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Purple said:
I3LuEI3omI3eR said:

It's crazy that you are stating this, for many say Nintendo's inability to deliver with their OLD IPs at Launch date was a HUGE reason why the Wii U is not selling. Granted they had New Super Mario Bros Wii U, but NSMB series as a whole are just Solid games to back up the Heavy Hitting games (Pokémon, Zelda, 3D Mario's, Mario Kart's etc).

For the Record, Nintendo Land and ZombiiU are new IPs too.

But the old IP's are there now. The only games missing are Smash Bros. and Zelda. The sales of the Wii U show that there aren't enough people interested in these old franchises.

I counted Nintendoland, which makes me think you didn't read the OP. And I don't know how Ubisoft creating one new IP somehow excuses Nintendo's reluctance to do so.

HUGE difference between those games coming out between LAUNCH date and later on. When you buy a console at Launch you want a wide variety of games to play with. Lots of people gave up on it and moved to the PS4 and Xbone. Besides, Sony is still selling Consoles and The Last of Us is a remade game, and it's sold over 1 million copies in a year. Sony's PS4 doesn't even have many new IPs but yet it's still selling based on CoD and many old IPs as well.

And 3D World Mario is not the same as a Mario Galaxy. If A Sequel came out for Mario Galaxy 2 on the Wii U release date it probably would have moved 5 million copies and consoles within the first year. I know this because NSMB is more of a game for casual gamers, and they are a lot less likely to spend $410 on a console and game combined to play one casual game, where as Hardcore and Casual gamers COMBINED (key word there) would have NO PROBLEMS buying a system  and the sequel to one of the greatest games of all time. 

Keep in mind the Wii was out for a full 6 years compared to the 2 years of the Wii U. Wii definitely had more time to do more IPs.

And you say Zelda and Smash like they are nothing. THEY ARE PROVEN CONSOLE MOVERS! Only franchises that has had more success in moving consoles more than Zelda are Mario Games and Pokémon games (but Pokémon games shouldn't count because the best ones are for handhelds). And Smash did wonders for GC back when it was launched.