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How much will Smash help Wii U sales?

Barely noticeable boost 53 13.59%
 
Big boost, but only temporary 259 66.41%
 
It will single-handedly save the Wii U 78 20.00%
 
Total:390
Soundwave on 24 October 2014
curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

People kept on claiming it would give Wii U a "one or two week boost"; Wii U is still above it's pre-MK8 baseline over four months later. 


That "new" baseline is still very mediocre and baseline sales tend to go higher as you get into August/September/October anyway, so some increase is to be expected just because of the time of year. 

It gave the system a good 4 week boost I'd say and then settled back down into it's usually sub-100k mediocrity fairly quickly afterwards. 

There's nothing here really worth celebrating, it would be like a sports team having a celebration that they only lost by 3 goals instead of 4. 

It wasn't a 4 week boost, it was still nearly double its pre-MK8 standard 11 weeks in. It still hasn't dropped back to the mid-low 30s yet, and it's been 18 weeks.

That's the point; that it was very commonly claimed it would be a short boost, and these people were just plain wrong.

The baseline shouldn't be in the mid-low 30s in September/October anyway, it was always going to rise from that previous baseline as the year went on just because sales tend to be slower in the first half of the year. 

It was all told a fairly underwhelming boost ... only one month of sales above 100k, then right back to sub-100k sales every month. A weak hardware bump in Japan too. 

Year over year the system is not up, it was actually down for September 2014, which indicates in the long term the game didn't alter the console's lame duck trajectory. 



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curl-6 on 24 October 2014
Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

People kept on claiming it would give Wii U a "one or two week boost"; Wii U is still above it's pre-MK8 baseline over four months later. 


That "new" baseline is still very mediocre and baseline sales tend to go higher as you get into August/September/October anyway, so some increase is to be expected just because of the time of year. 

It gave the system a good 4 week boost I'd say and then settled back down into it's usually sub-100k mediocrity fairly quickly afterwards. 

There's nothing here really worth celebrating, it would be like a sports team having a celebration that they only lost by 3 goals instead of 4. 

It wasn't a 4 week boost, it was still nearly double its pre-MK8 standard 11 weeks in. It still hasn't dropped back to the mid-low 30s yet, and it's been 18 weeks.

That's the point; that it was very commonly claimed it would be a short boost, and these people were just plain wrong.

The baseline shouldn't be in the mid-low 30s in September/October anyway, it was always going to rise from that previous baseline as the year went on just because sales tend to be slower in the first half of the year. 

It was all told a fairly underwhelming boost ... only one month of sales above 100k, then right back to sub-100k sales every month. A weak hardware bump in Japan too. 

Whether you consider it underwhelming is frankly beside the point.

The fact of the matter is, people said the boost would last a week or two. And they were dead wrong.,



Kerotan on 24 October 2014

No it won't. It will give it a boost for a few weeks, we'll have people telling us the Wii U is saved and then after xmas back to reality.



mii-gamer on 24 October 2014
curl-6 said:

Whether you consider it underwhelming is frankly beside the point.

The fact of the matter is, people said the boost would last a week or two. And they were dead wrong.,


Yep, the narrative was that Mario Kart 8 was going to do a "titanfall"