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curl-6 on 29 October 2017
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zorg1000 said:
curl-6 said:

To an extent, though Wii U's smaller base didn't stop games like Mario, Smash, and Splatoon pulling in 4 million plus.

Those franchises should be crossing 10 million easily, not struggling to hit 5 million

I'm not saying Wii U's poor performance didn't hurt them, but there were still Wii U games that sold in the 5-8 million range, while TF couldn't even reach 2m. So I think Wii U alone doesn't account for the game's sales shortfall by series standards.

Peach_buggy said:
curl-6 said:

I think a lot of TF's sales shortcomings were because it wasn't what people wanted from Retro's first HD game, especially on a system already overcrowded with mascot platformers.

Didn't buy it myself but heard it was a really good game. Your explanation makes perfect sense tho.  Anything not named Mario, Smash or Splatoon struggled on the Wii u but Donkey Kong especially was way down on its normal sales expectations.

Yeah Tropical Freeze was a very good game, but it wasn't the right game for its time.