the_dengle said:
Mummelmann said:
Pikmin is among the smaller Nintendo franchises and sold incredibly tiny numbers compared to their other hitters, managing only 0.4 and 0.6 million on the Wii.
Pikmin 3 will at best be an obscure thing that moves a few hundred thousand.
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Both of the Wii Pikmin titles were rereleases. The original titles both sold over a million -- and on GameCube no less. Pikmin 3 won't be monumental, but it'll be much bigger than you're making it out to be.
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It will? I guess we'll have to see. There's nothing to suggest that it will sell as much as the GC versions, the popularity and attach rates of Nintendo franchises are hard to determine, for instance Super Mario 64 sold almost 12 million, an insane attach rate and more than Super Mario Galaxy despite the Wii's massive installed base advantage. In fact, Galaxy 2 is even farther down, at almost 4 million behind the original, despite massively good reviews, even bigger installed base, the popularity of the first one and having had almost three years to sell.
With the Wii U bound to have a lot smaller installed base and the varying degrees of popularity of various franchises, there's no basis for saying that Pikmin will sell over 1 million, for instance, I find it more likely that the smaller Nintendo franchises won't suddenly flare up and grow for no reason. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition sold about 500k more than Resident Evil 4 on Gamecube and this is a remake as well.
When you say so yourself that remakes and re-releases aren't that significant, what does that say when the Wii U is basically going to have to live off of very late ports and a Zelda remake through the foreseeable future? There's trouble abound, Pikmin is just one splash in the ocean of woes the Wii U is facing now and in the coming year, I'm afraid.
