Global Hardware March 9th 2019

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0D0 said:

curl-6 said:

Over 5 million people bought NSMBU on Wii U, that's more than most games can ever hope to sell, so it's not like "nobody bought it".

And even if hardly anyone did, that wouldn't change the fact that it was publicly available to own for over 6 years before it's re-release on Switch, so personally I'm still gonna stick with the definition of "new" as a game that hasn't seen release before at all.

Nintendo had a lot of done games that they simply released as new, that's the whole marketing behind those games. For most NSW audience, they're all new games. Wii U was an obscure console for die hard fans, that's why I can say that nobody on the mainstream game audience bought it.

Wii U is an obscure console comparing it with 3DS, DS, Wii, or NSW. Even though sticking to the dictionary definition is all right, I think it doesn't apply to the specific context of this discussion. Yes, the games were factually out before, but it really doesn't matter much in this specific business case.

Just to hammer this point home, the bestselling Switch game is a Wii U port with all it's DLC (although, a huge Spaceship, SSBU, is approaching fast). So there is a large market for it.

More than that, for those who didn't have a Wii U it's brand new, and for those who did and bought it there chances are that they double dip to put their Wii U into retirement, rendering the point nil.