| RealGamingExpert said: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse is a follow up to the game "Kirby: Canvas Curse" released in 2005 for the DS. The sales of the game are pretty low. According to VGC it sold 0.72M WW. The Wii U game is releasing on a much smaller install base than the DS. Does the game even have a chance of selling well? It doesn't to be a game with a high development cost, but I doubt that it can even pass the 0.5M mark. Thoughts? |
Thoughts? I dunno... not much thought went into this topic, so I'm not sure why you should expect much thought in the response.
If you had, you'd probably realize that the game is not releasing on a much smaller install base than the DS. The DS launched November 2014, and Kirby came out in March (Japan) and June (US). Using the later release date, the install base was I believe somewhere between 7 and 8 million. I'm not going to go through the trouble of doing the math, but I'm about 99% sure the DS install base at the time was much lower, and I'm 100% sure that the Wii U install base isn't "much smaller".
And if you want to point out that the DS sales would begin to surge later on, I'd point out that Canvas Curse didn't seem to benefit much, and sales flattened shortly after release. I'd also probably point out that according to the figures we have, the game sold 0 copies in Europe. Kirby may not be huge over the atlantic, but that does seem fishy.
So if you want to go by install base logic, you'd logically have to expect it to sell over 700K without any sales in Europe.
