| spurgeonryan said: Oh no! I guess smash was big last year along with MK. If only we had more deals this year, but if they are sellin g about the same I guess there is no point. |
Smash didn't do much at all, like I said just a few posts above Europe and North America are stable in sales compared to last year despite not having a big holyday release title like smash last year (XCX did well, but it's not in the same league as smash yet) or pricecut to compensate this. In fact Japan, the one region with no holyday release at all this year (SMTxFE only comes out this saturday) manages to be up by a big margin this holyday season.
The main culprit is MK8, which on the western sales transformed a 76k lead for 2015 into being 224k behind last year. Since then this year is constantly drawing closer, but it didn't suffice yet to eliminate the loss aquired during summer.
On another note, who'd had thought this year could keep up with MK8/Smash year without Zelda? A kiddie/squiddie Shooter new IP and an Mario ROM hack tool against 2 of the 3 biggest IPs of Nintendo? Get lost! And yet it manages to stay on par with that year.
