Biggest drop in sales in a game series?

[Aquamarine]

tbone51 said:

Aquamarine said:

The sheer fact that the much-lauded sequels to sales behemoths....couldn't even come close to the original....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 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?

I by no means am calling DK:TF a success, WiiU is a failure in sales and obviously SW will be affected by it. That said Vita/WiiU both have plenty of successful games. DK:TF was a dissapointmemt in sales yes, a biased fan has to admit it, but that doesn't flat out mean it failed.

Userbase will affect Sales, if wiiu was over 30mil i definitely could see the game doing 3mil-4mil lifetime. An example of this is DKC 3D which sold between 1.2mil-1.5mil that is a down port of a wii game (from 3 years ago). Same game on WiiU with HD graphics (remaster) would of sold under 400k-500k lifetime.

 

Again, DK didnt push consoles/Is nowhere close to its predecessor/underperformed, but calling it a failure might be pushing it. Might as well call Many other games on wiiu a failure as well (like MK8/SSBU/NSMBU/SM3DW/etc) because its nowhere near close to the last game for sales. DK is more arguable because shipments are probably around the 900k-1mil mark compared to the examples above, but without knowing cost of the game we cant deem it a failure.

Edit: Unless when you say failure, your talking about direct comparisons from DKCR to DKTF, then I dunno why Nintendo would expect even half of the sales selling it to a 6.5mil user base at the time.

As I mentioned before, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has flatlined in sales. It's not an evergreen like its predecessor.

Nintendo corporate looks at trends as a barometer of success...gen-over-gen trends, but more importantly how the title is doing in terms of momentum.

 

MK8 and Smash Bros. are chock full of momentum. Donkey Kong Country? Dead in the water after selling to Nintendo diehards last year.

That might be an even bigger reason to call it a failure.