Woolly World on track to outsell Tropical Freeze

[midrange]

TheLegendofDS said:

midrange said:

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.

 

Pikmin actually sold about what you would expect given the Wii U's install base back in mid-2013 and it's not too far from Pikmin 2 sales according to vgchartz and if I remember correctly the psysical version of the game was discontinued as for DK the game got tons of backlash from the fans when it was announced for not being Metroid, so those 2 are not good examples to use as evidence that the Wii U's install base is mostly kids and not older Nintendo fans

Pikmin 3 sales (along with wonderful 101 sales) were admitted by Nintendo to be lackluster, so it was definitely not good regardless of the Wii u install base.

as for DK, that backlash was negligible when thinking about sales. No one refuses to buy a game because of what the developer COULD have made