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Aquamarine on 21 May 2015
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tbone51 said:
Aquamarine said:
97alexk said:
Aquamarine said:
97alexk said:

 

 

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.

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.


Not denying the massive drop between the 2 games, but in your opinion is MK8 a failure? It went from 36mil+ to 5.1mil (i know its going to be higher) and its down roughly 1/6th when its all done.

Mypoint being DKTF failed to move consoles, and failed to get close to the SW sales of Returns (and probably more expensive), but does automatically deem it a failur?

Pokemon was once a 20mil+ franchise (well gen 1/gen 2 sold 32mil/23mil) and its now at least a 10mil franchise, thats not considered a failure :)


The sheer fact that the much-lauded sequels to sales behemoths couldn't even come close to the originals....is a grave failure across the entire spectrum of Nintendo Wii U IP.

It's utterly, bitterly disappointing and it's primarily responsible for Iwata's somber paradigm shift (revenue stream diversification / mobiles / NX).

 

I don't like to deal in relativity because it takes away from the enormous elephant in the room.

Because you just don't know where relativity is going to end.

 

If it's okay to call Tropical Freeze a success because Wii U software is low across the board....what about the number-one selling Atari Jaguar title? I could dust off ancient NPD spreadsheets showing us the number-one best-selling Atari Jaguar title in the USA....is that a success when the console had abysmal sell-through?