Bofferbrauer on 17 December 2015
| fireburn95 said: Nintendo developed and published games with good marketing sell good. Also gotta consider many wii u gamers were starved for games and splatoon came out as a well-reviewed game. I reckon if wii u actually had a few third parties developing then something like splatoon would've got buried (1 mill or so) by nintendos standards, but 2.75 mill isn't too crazy |
Starved for games? While this may be true (not for everyone though), I don't think it would have sold worse if Wii U still had third party support. It would probably even have sold better because then the console would also have sold much better.
Also Splatoon wasn't exactly well reviewed. It was well recieved, but the reviews where way below the expectations of those who played the testfires due to limited map and mode selection at start as well as the "missing" voicechat. Did a bit of controversity back then, too.
