Nuvendil said:
What? The Wii U had Wii Sports! Wii Sports Club launched in November, 2013. And no one cared. No one rushed out to buy it. No one saw it on shelves and freaked out. It has sold less than half a million copies to date retail, Bayonetta 2 tops that and it's a niche Platinum game. The Wii-game brand is practically dead. The fact you didn't even remember Wii Sports Club and that it sold so poorly is proof of my point that it has no pull whatsoever with the current market. Now yes, Wii U's marketing was a disaster, said that myself countless times. But the Wii brand was severely damaged well before then. By 2012, many associated the word Wii with motion controlled gimmickery. And Wii Sports was instrumental to that: it firmly tied the Wii to motion controls to almost the exclusion of all else. When motion controls fell out of fashion and the audience that still cared left, the Wii brand's strength crumbled away. The Wii U had an uphill battle from day one. |
No one could see Wii Sports Club on shelves becase a physical version capable of sitting on a store shelf did not exist. All that was launched in Novermber 2013 were digital versions of bowling and tennis. It took until summer 2014 for all 5 sports to be released, and only after that was a physical version released with no mareting push. Releasing each sport piecemeal, charging $13 per sport, including far less content in the whole package than Wii Sports Resort had for a lower price, and not bothering with a physical release for almost a year is why Wii Sports Club sold so much less.
Imagine if Nintendo released a digital-only version of Mario Kart with only 1 cup, charged $13 for that cup, and gradually released the remaining 3 cups for $13 each over a period of 8 months, and only then released a physical version. How would that sell compared to MK8?
