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

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Soundwave said:

curl-6 said:

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. 

It wasn't a 4 week boost, it was still nearly double its pre-MK8 standard 11 weeks in. It still hasn't dropped back to the mid-low 30s yet, and it's been 18 weeks.

That's the point; that it was very commonly claimed it would be a short boost, and these people were just plain wrong.