Kai_Mao said:
I'm not sure..Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze sold about a million units on Wii U, when its predecessor sold about 5 million on the Wii. Pikmin 3 sold about 1 million along with Yoshi's Woolly World. Wind Waker HD sold about 1.8-2 million. I think a new Metroid Prime on Wii U might have barely made it to a million, especially if it was not sold during the launch window of the Wii U. I guess with better advertising, Metroid could've sold around the range you pointed out, but if we go by what Nintendo has done recently in terms of advertising their games (with the exception of Mario Kart 8, Smash 4, Super Mario Maker, and Splatoon), brand name alone wouldn't have been enough I believe. |
You're comparing sales on a console that sold 100 million to a console that's only sold like 13. If dkc sold 5 million on the Wii it had an attachment rate of about 5%. Compare the Wii u numbers and tropical freeze did around 7.5%. The Wii u typically has better attach rates than the Wii and metroid could have seen success based off of that.
