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Volterra_90 on 15 April 2015
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Soundwave said:
Volterra_90 said:

I don't think so. I don't doubt that WiiU has a great lineup of games for the second half of the year. But Mario Kart and Smash > all of the games they will release this year. I'm talking about sales. Mario Kart and Smash are the most powerful Nintendo franchises. WiiU this year needs a system seller if Nintendo wants to do better than last year. 


To be honest though it was really only MK8 that caused a really noticable bump for the Wii U. 

Smash bump was OK, but nothing monstrous. November NPD was so-so for Wii U, December was up noticably Y-o-Y but that was it. 

A price drop to $249.99 at some point this year probably cancels out the MK8 bump from last year.

The way I see it, the Wii U is like a turtle running a race ... it's going to plod generally to the same pace, so 3.3 mill or so this year shouldn't be that hard to reach with a $50 drop. 

To be honest too I think Mario Maker is a more mainstream appealling product than even Zelda is. After MK8/Smash/NSMBU and maybe 3D World I could see Mario Maker ending up as the 5th best selling Wii U title for its life time. 

I definitely see potential in Mario Maker, it all depends in how Nintendo will market the game (and we know that Nintendo is not very good at marketing). But I will be very surprised if Mario Maker pushes the WiiU a lot. Maybe a Mario Maker + WiiU bundle (250$) could do the trick, but, as you say, it will only allow the WiiU to keep selling... bad. I don't really know if the price drop will be worth it, maybe they will stick to its actual prize and milk the profits as much as they can before they move on to their next hardware.