| Einsam_Delphin said:
Your claims are mainly just taking advantage of the lack of Wii U sales prior to NSMBU, so we can't 100% know if NSMBU is why Wii U didn't sell even worse, but it's pretty obvious it is, and it can't increase the baseline because there's no baseline to increase. If 3D Mario was significantly more appealing then it'd sell more like MK8 did, simple as that. I'm sorry but the launch hype thing is so silly. You're implying people bought the Wii U purely because of hype (that games like NSMBU apparently aren't a factor in) and only bought games afterward as an afterthought like "oh yeah, this thing is useless without games huh." Even if that were true, they bought NSMBU specifically instead of other games. Also launch hype doesn't extend past January, so you still need to explain the 1.5 million Wii Us and 1 million NSMBUs. Btw you didn't acknowledge NSMB2, explain that too. What game has ever sold a million+ week one with zero effect on hardware? Your example just isn't realistic. |
Such a weak argument, it can't be a system seller because it doesn't sell like MK8? We'll pretend you didn't even type this, a system seller doesn't have to sell more then a userbase seller to have more impact.
Are you new to gaming? Early adoters have been around for decades and yes they do buy consoles based off hype or their preference for the company it's laughable you're trying to suggest it isn't possible especially when on this very site the have been people pissed off because NX is coming and they bought the platform years back for the new Zelda. The arguments going on right now because some people still believe the's much more on the way for Wii U.
According to the global data on this site the end of January is whe the platform dropped to a baseline of 20k and stayed there falling in line with my stance, NSMBU wasn't even in the charting either so the bulk of sales had already happened and it's not hard to explain NSMBU's sales it was the only notable game for early adopters to really buy. NSMB2 also launched the period when the 3DS had its price cut which was a catalyst in spiking sales, the baseline returned to normal shortly afterward and increased heavily when 3DL and MK7 arrived.
A number of shovelware games did it on the Wii.
