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Aquamarine on 21 May 2015
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97alexk said:
Aquamarine said:
97alexk said:


Not really, Tropical freeze sold atleast over 1 million, unfortunate because its such an amazing game


Let's look at USA NPD data for a second. Ignore Chartz.

 

According to NPD data, Donkey Kong Country Returns hit nearly 3 million only a few years after being on the USA market.

Meanwhile, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze still hasn't hit 500,000.

 

It's abundantly clear that Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a failure to NCL.

Tropical Freeze had a good deal greater production costs than the original with a more robust dev team...and for what? To sell 1/6th of its predecessor in the USA?

Well thats only In the USA. and also Wii had a bigger install base, it doesnt matter if it even sold only 100 K, its the best game of the gen so far for me, and idc about the sales. I just said it was unfortunate, also returns has 9 million something, and Tropical freeze has 1 million, Thats not so bad compared to the install base at 2014 february. EDIT: Returns actually only has 6 millions, so tropical freeze sold 5 million less. thats not a big drop at all compared to the install base, TBH tropical freeze sold preatty good compared that no one seems to mention it anymore when they talk about good Wii U games

I want to know what world you live in where a title that sells only 1/6th of its predecessor is "not a big drop at all," haha.

So what if the installbase was smaller? It's still a failure. Especially because it didn't move any Wii U consoles.

You have to keep in mind that Wii's active installbase back in 2010 was a lot smaller than its total installbase. Remember all of the soccer moms / grannies that bought it for Wii Fit and Wii Sports and nothing else? Yeah...you have to take that into consideration.

And, if you look at sales data Tropical Freeze has pretty much flatlined...so it's never even going to go anywhere above its current state.

Donkey Kong Country Returns continued to sell for years. But Tropical Freeze? It had a small run to cater to the Nintendo diehards and then promptly withered away.

And I don't think Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has even HIT one million yet. Chartz says it has, but I think Chartz is over-estimating here.