Reggie: Nintendo Switch Is Setting Sales Records Every Day, We’ve Turned the Industry on Its Ear

[Pyro as Bill]

Soundwave said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Skyward Sword is a better launch game for the WiiU than NSMBU? Even though Skyward Sword couldn't manage 4m on a 100m userbase? How exactly are you going to do sword controls on the WiiU gamepad?

NSMB2 is over 10m on the 3DS. Zelda has never gone over 10m (until now).

Skyward Sword would have to be repurposed to work without the motion controls if neccessary, but it would've been better off as a launch title for the Wii U.

The fact that it didn't sell that great even on the Wii shows though that people were abandoning that platform and that brand like crazy. That's the other benefit Switch is, it gets to start fresh with "cooler" branding, by 2012 the Wii brand had grown toxic and become associated with soccer moms. 

You're saying the second highest selling game on the WiiU, over 5m, moved less consoles than a game that only sold 4m on a 100m userbase because of 'cool branding'.

People were calling the Wii a casual system from the get go even though it had Twilight Princess, Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 in it's first year.