| Nem said:
That is simply not true. Xenoblade X for example is proof of that. Sold similar ammount on both. I like how you guys like to say "oh thats niche". Yes, but this niche corresponds to a segment of the market wich can be caracterised. And is clearly on both the Wii and Wii U. You can tell me Metroid is niche, but i will somewhat disagree. Metroid has a wider appeal than simply niche. DK has a casual appeal mostly and a bit of hardcore/Nintendo fan appeal. I said in one of my posts that the Wii U is composed of Nintendo fans and hardcore (this includes niche) gamers. Casuals are very few here. Sales for the console show that and sales for DKTF show that. The games that still sell alot are beeing bought by the Nintendo fans and the very tiny casual market in the Wii U, maybe even some hardcores. Why? Because they capture the wider spectrum of the Wii U's audience. Guess i should define the Nintendo fans as those that buy the Mario games and the most popular Nintendo games. So, i hope this clears up why DKTF's sales are disappointing and why Metroid has a decent chance. The only thing that changes from the Wii to the Wii U is that the casuals mostly up and left. That is why titles aimed at a very casual audience will not sell as well as they did on the Wii, why Nintendo core titles still sell like crazy and why hardcore/niche titles still don't sell super well. Metroid still has its 2 segments mostly intact on the Wii U, and that is why it has a decent chance to sell better than DK. It actually sold really well on the Gamecube aswell, wich had a similar audience/userbase. I don't know why this is even in question. |
Yes it is true, Mario, Smash, Kart, etc. are still on the top of the charts, Xenoblade isn't on any system, and on Wii it had limited shipments in the West, Metroid is niche or very close to it as the numbers indicate, certainly not widely appealing, DK is far more similar to the types of games you finally admit people buy Nintendo systems for than Metroid ever will be, and lol if you think 90 million fewer owners isn't the main factor, or are you implying all 90 million of them are casual grandmas and not a single one of them bought MP3 which would be even more laughable. Even if it were true that the only difference is no casuals (it's not in case I didn't make that clear enough, plenty of children/familys own the thing), meaning the core Nintendo base stayed the exact same size between Wii and Wii U (ha, no), then an MP4 could only do as well as MP3, a game DKCTF is gonna be outselling. There really is no way to spin it. And it's not a question, just a matter of you finally deciding to either take the numbers over assumptions, or not, I already said twice you can do that too, you're the one who just keeps going trying to twist and cherry pick the numbers.
