How many Wii U s would LOZ Breath of the Wild sold .....

[tak13]

Soundwave said:
Not much.

Every big Nintendo IP has been hyped here as the messiah for Wii U sales (first it was NSMB, then Super Mario 3D World, then Mario Kart 8, then Smash Brothers, then Splatoon).

Mario Kart 8 caused a modest 2 month bump in the West with a free game promotion.

Splatoon caused a OK hardware boost in Japan for a little while.

That was basically it. Sales levels for the machine were still consistently under the GameCube even with those bumps.

 Irrelevant comparison, how many times will I tell you that... GC had two huge price drops in two years consecutively, wii u had none...

Mario kart 8 had doubled the weekly  baseline for  five months and hepled wii u on holidays in the west! Splatoon ( along with super mario maker )  made wii u to have huge holidays in Japan ( repeating the sales of its best year, 2013 but this time with expensive bundles, not like the killer ones of 2013 )  which create wii u shortages later, do you forget the 100k selling week in Japan?

 

The 60% attach rate of Mario kart 8, means something...

Soundwave... Show finally some love to the poor wii u!