Koei Tecmo confirms Hyrule Warriors has shipped 1m copies

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Mr Puggsly said:

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Gamers today read up on which is the better version of a game. And lateness has even more of an impact.

LEGO City is about the only mainstream exclusive (that's not a Nintendo property) of solid quality, and it sold pretty well.

Third parties could have sold better on Wii U; for the most part, they fumbled the opportunity to do so with either late and/or bad games.

Yeah, gamers have always read about which version is better. Does that mean the vast majority of gamers are reading that stuff? Nope. People on forums seem to forget we are not the average consumer.

Lego City was an exclusive so people who want to play it didn't have options outside of Wii U. Furthermore, a game like that obviously appeals to the Nintendo audience. What next? Are you gonna boast about Just Dance?

The Wii U is the actual fumble. 3rd parties didn't put much of a focus on Wii U because Nintendo failed to make people care about the Wii U. Nintendo has a lot of money I hear, perhaps they should have bought some ports to boost their userbase. In my opinion, Sony and MS are more involved with their 3rd party support because they care about that audience and Nintendo simply does not.

The kind of gamers who would buy those games are the kind who read that stuff.

And you're moving the goalposts. Exclusives still count. So do games that aren't drenched in blood and swearing.

Nintendo's mistakes don't dismiss the failure of third parties. It was still possible to sell; they just didn't manage to do so.