Is the impact Smash will have on Wii U sales being massively overhyped?

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curl-6 said:

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curl-6 said:
That's what they said about Mario Kart 8.
So much crow was served to the haters and doubters, it was glorious.

Err ... what long term sales boost has the Wii U really gotten from MK8? It gave the Wii U one month of sales above 100k in the North America and then it was right back to sub-100k mediocre sales by August. That's not a huge boost, it's huge only in the sense that the original Wii U baseline is so low. 

I think actually Wii U sales as stated above are lower for September 2014 vs. September 2013 ... which is pretty sad actually. 

People kept on claiming it would give Wii U a "one or two week boost"; Wii U is still above it's pre-MK8 baseline over four months later. 

That "new" baseline is still very mediocre and baseline sales tend to go higher as you get into August/September/October anyway, so some increase is to be expected just because of the time of year. 

It gave the system a good 4 week boost I'd say and then settled back down into it's usually sub-100k mediocrity fairly quickly afterwards. 

There's nothing here really worth celebrating, it would be like a sports team having a celebration that they only lost by 3 goals instead of 4.