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curl-6 on 06 February 2016
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zorg1000 said:
curl-6 said:

The 7th gen was very obviously a hugely different market from the 8th, hence the Wii dominating the competition yet the Wii U getting steamrolled. 

It's not a coincidence that of the three 8th gen consoles, the one that's performing the worst by far is the one dominated by family friendly cartoon titles.

Wii U already had plenty of platformers, what it needed was a little diversity in its exclusive lineup and image, something Retro were well positioned to provide.

Correlation vs causation

the Wii U is not failing because of lack of dark, gritty games. We have 30+ years of data that shows cartoony & family-friendly titles are far more popular than dark, gritty titles on Nintendo platforms.

Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Tekken, Injustice, Ninja Gaiden, Resident Evil, Sniper Elite, Batman, Walking Dead, Bayonetta, Fatal Frame, Xenoblade, Watch Dogs, Deus Ex, Monster Hunter are all on Wii U, why has Tropical Freeze outsold each and every one of them? Why have 3rd parties stopped releasing these types of games on Wii U yet they still release cartoony & family-friendly games for Wii U?

30 years of data from a different era when the market was less dominated by 14-40 year old males than it is today. The days were you can propel a console to success on a primarily E-rated library are over. Your average consumer today is no longer the parent buying for their kids that Nintendo targets, its teenagers and guys in their 20s and 30s buying for themselves, and they would rather play T or M rated games.

Those games you list mostly had superior versions available on consoles that people already owned.

The thing is, nobody who didn't already have a Wii U was going to buy one for Tropical Freeze. It was yet another cartoon platformer on a system that already had plenty. It did nothing to address Wii U's lack of appeal to the 14-40 male crowd.