Volterra_90 said:
midrange said:
curl-6 said:
midrange said:
curl-6 said:
Monster Hunter Tri is third party also, and Skylanders Giants and Swap Force have also been out for years, but have not sold as much as Monster Hunter.
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Skylanders swap force and trap team are almost at monster hunter tri sales. Unfortunately for skylanders, it can cannibalizes it's own sales with annual releases, however skylanders as a series is significantly greater on the wii u than monster hunter. Skylanders is the only third party up to have nintendo exclusive support whereas monster hunter 4 wasn't ported to the wii u. Big reason for this
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Not a single Skylanders game on Wii U has sold as much as Monster Hunter Tri or Pikmin 3 so far. If kids were a majority on Wii U, they'd be eclipsing these kind of games. But they don't, because the average Wii U owner is a 20-something or 30-something Nintendo fan.
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If skylanders wasn't a yearly third party release (instead releasing just one title that doesn't compete with itself), I bet it would cross the million mark by now.
But ok, let's instead take splatoon. The market for that is without a doubt for kids. Can't be for Nintendo fans since it is a new ip. This is the kind of games that kids want, and sales show it.
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Nah, it's a game which could be enjoyed with adults and kids alike. I have it, and I'm having a blast with it. And I'm sure plenty of 20+ Nintendo fans bought that game. It's fun, polished, and a twist to the shooter genre, something which is very Nintendo-like. They did it with Mario Kart. They did it with Smash. Not all of the 3M copies are kids, that's far from the truth. Parents buy to their kids what's popular, the console the majority of their friends have. And I'm sure that's not the case with the WiiU, it hasn't sold precisely well. So that's my guess to say that the people which keep buying the WiiU are, most of all, people who had any relationship with Nintendo in the past generations.
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If the main audience was returning Nintendo veterans, then pikmin 3 and dk should have similar sales to splatoon. After all, they've been around for nintendo much longer than Splatoon has. They're also just as if not more critically acclaimed then splatoon.
