Purple said:
I don't really subscribe to the view that Wii sales should just be seen as some anomaly and all Nintendo should hope for is selling ~15 million consoles and accepting that their franchises will just constantly decline in sales. As a publicly traded company Nintendo can't accept that. If they're not achieving growth, let alone undergoing massive decline the company will be taken over and die. And as a Nintendo fan I don't want that to happen. MK8 will probably end up selling a quarter of what MKWii sold. That is catastrophic. As I said in the OP, there is a thousand reasons the Wii U is a flop, but I think the lack of new IP to get new customers on board is definitely a key one. |
MKWii sold nearly 35 million, a quarter of which is about 8.5 million, and after 4 months MK8 has sold 2.7 million, I doubt it's going to sell 6 million more, I'd be surprised if it hits 4 million. It's barely in the top 30 after many users said it would remain in or near the top 10 through the holidays. So that is very catastrophic, personally I feel that Smash will sell worse considering Brawl sold only a third of MKWii and with the 3DS version scratching some itches, I don't see the newest Smash outselling MK8.
