By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Mummelmann on 03 May 2015
Edit Thread
zippy said:
Mummelmann said:


To be fair; he said "most gamers" and not "gamers are no longer interested", and how do you explain that the 3DS will likely sell half as much as the DS lifetime if he doesn't at least have a point?

Wii and DS were a complete one off for Nintendo, I never thought for one moment they would replicate that success with Wii U and 3DS (although i thought Wii U would be doing at least 5 million more than it currently has). If 3DS tops out at 70 million plus, i would consider that successful especially factoring in a botched launch.


Yes, they were a one-off, I agree with that. But why do you think that the Wii U and 3DS show such enormous contractions? Surely, if Nintendo IP's were a constant as a market factor, we would see a larger portion of the 35 million + who bought Mario Kart Wii? The DS also sold over 23 million of its iteration of MK (MK 7), that's almost 60 million customers who bought MK in the 7th gen, why did most of them not buy the sequel(s) on 3DS and Wii U? Donkey Kong is the same story, Kirby as well.

Personally, I've also said that the majority of the Wii's audience was not coming back to the Wii U or any other console because they weren't really gamers to begin with but there has to be more to it when Nintendo's biggest franchises aren't keeping the core customers coming to the Wii U and 3DS.

PS: 70 million 3DS would be a success indeed, I'm not contesting that at all, but I do find it strange that the handheld market was more than halved in one generation without franchise fatigue being at least part of the equation.