8 Player Smash a detriment to WiiU sales?

[JazzB1987]

MDX said:

Smash 4 sales might be doing good, but it might not boost 
console sales as much as people would expect.  Why?
Because you dont need to buy the game and console to enjoy it, you
can just go visit your "Nintendo" friend.

In order to really enjoy single player games you need to buy your own console;
so do you think that by selling multiplayer focused games Nintendo
is actually shooting themselves in the foot?

Well I dont know about other people but I was visiting a colleague and brought my WiiU and Mario Kart8 we were 6 people ate pizza and played the game (obviously not all people at the same time) and in the end 1 guy bought a WiiU the next day because he wanted to play MK all the time and not just when I was bringing my equipment :) or invited them.

So the local multiplayer  gave him a few hours to try the game made him realize he loves it and since he can play with alot of people that dont own a console as long as they visit him he just went and bought a WiiU including MK8.

Where I live party games are quite popular  everyone had a Wii just for parties. Smash might make WiiU a party console.