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

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.

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

To be honest I think it's fair to say Donkey Kong doesn't have as much of a place in the market these days. Returns sold amazingly on the Wii, sure, but that was on a huge userbase and it was the first DKC game in nearly 15 years, so it had that nostalgia hype going for it.

Now, however, I think most people just don't care as much. Platformers are not exactly the biggest market in gaming today and when it comes to Nintendo, DKC is obviously overshadowed by Mario (and even more so when Mario has also been getting 2D games all the time). It's easy to blame the Wii U for Tropical Freeze's sales, but then you look at Returns 3D and notice that the situation wasn't much better even on such a large userbase (well yeah, it was just a port, but still the only DKC game on the console). But more importantly, it's just better to not have those kinds of expectations, because I think in the end the 2 million range is pretty good for DKC actually.

Pretty much, yeah, DKC itself seems kinda redundant these days. I suspect if they made a Switch sequel to TF it wouldn't set the sales charts on fire either.