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freebs2 on 03 February 2016
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Pavolink said:
RolStoppable said:
That's intellectually dishonest. I mean, I get that you say that Splatoon is a bigger success than DKC:TF, but your criterion to put XCX over DKC:TF is pathetic. Additionally, it's not like Retro had a stellar track record of moving hardware with their games before they made DKC:TF.

The lesson to be learned is that Nintendo shouldn't make a piece of trash like the Wii U, because ultimately pretty much all of their games suffered because of it. Based on Retro's whole body of work, there's no good reason to believe that a different project would have led to a significantly different outcome (selling below expectations, failing to move hardware on a notable scale).

XCX is a more impressive game than DK, that's for sure.

DKTF did underwhlmingly because it was strategically a bad choice to release (another) 2D plaftform at that time. I agree a game like Metroid would have sold more in that moment - because that was the kind of game the crowd who early bought the WiiU was waiting for. That said I don't belive making a good platform game with 3D graphics and the amount of content DKTF has is anything less ambitious than making a good jrpg game.

Xenobleade has benefited from the fact no one (on any platform) has tried to really push the genre in years - it has literally no competiton - DK on the other hand stands in a quite crowded competitive space, and at the end it will still very likely sell more. Add the fact Xenoblade was a 5 years project against the 3 years of DKTF.

As for why they released another 2D DK game on WiiU, I believe they were originally willing to make a sequel on Wii (to implement some of the ideas they couldn't fit on DKCR) - after all Wii sales in 2010 were still stellar - but at some point the project was moved by Nintendo to push the WiiU. It wouldn't be surprising since Wonderfull 101 and Pikmin 3 were released in the same time frame and were both confirmed to be origially intended for Wii. This would also explain why the game is visually and artistically very similar to the previous one.

Lastly, the Splatoon comparison it doesn't really make much sense. Last gen, Wii Sports obviously moved more consoles than Zelda, so they should have stopped making Zelda games?