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midrange on 20 December 2015
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slab_of_bacon said:
midrange said:

let me rephrase: people buying minecraft on the wii u does not imply that those people would buy a wii u for minecraft. It isn't a 1:1 ratio, instead for every 1,000,000 people that buy minecraft for the wii u, there is 1 person who will buy a wii u for minecraft. That ratio is too small to claim that "minecraft will move hardware."

Yes, I do believe 50k is to high. Once again, there is no incentive for buying a wii u for minecraft. If someone wanted to buy a console for minecraft, they are better off buying a cheaper ps3. I estimate minecraft to move less than 5k units of wii u hardware.

 

I feel as though your opinion is a bit on the lean side.  Let me ask you this:  Someone has been on the fence about getting a Mariokart bundle and then can now get a copy of Minecraft for the system which pushes them past the threshold and they buy one...  did the game alone incite that action?  How would the purchase of a Sony Playstation 3 or an Xbox 360 allow them to play Mariokart?

 

In that scenario, mario kart 8 and the bundle moved the console, not minecraft. Minecraft moving consoles would be like "hmm, I want to play minecraft, the wii u has minecraft, let me buy a wii u."

for minecraft to move wii u consoles, it must be the priority/main reason to buy a wii u, not an afterthought/bonus feature