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tbone51 on 28 March 2013
think-man said:
Lego city is a prime example.....I thought everyone said that game was going to save the WiiU....less than 80k first week! what a flop...



watttt lol, who said that? Wii U did good and 78k is very good for Wii U. I dont kno who told you wii u will be saved by lego city, maybe 1 or 2 guys said that. Dont mix nintendo fans with those 1 or 2 guys! >:(



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noname2200 on 28 March 2013
S.Peelman said:
pezus said:

People tell me the Nintendo games on it sucked and that's why it sold so little

Truth, the big Nintendo franchise's offerings on GC are notably inferior to their N64/Wii offerings. I don't get it, for some reason the GameCube is praised nowadays while it was left in the dust when it actually was in stores. I wish people cared as much ten years ago...

Rol has a theory on that.



noname2200 on 28 March 2013
think-man said:
Lego city is a prime example.....I thought everyone said that game was going to save the WiiU....less than 80k first week! what a flop...

Links plz kthanksbai.



tbone51 on 28 March 2013
noname2200 said:
think-man said:
Lego city is a prime example.....I thought everyone said that game was going to save the WiiU....less than 80k first week! what a flop...

Links plz kthanksbai.



I kno, i dont even remember one person saying this lol!



Mr Khan on 28 March 2013

The fun one is how GameCube is now praised retroactively for its robust 3rd party support...



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

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curl-6 on 28 March 2013

Last week's hardware boost just from the relatively minor Monster Hunter and LEGO City says you're wrong.



DietSoap on 28 March 2013
arsenalrc15 said:
Taking E3 into account, Nintendo should come out with guns blazing as far as first party titles are concerned, but I do not see a Mario, Zelda, or Super Smash game being released in 2013. Instead, there will be a HD remake of Wind Waker.

3D Mario is definitely at the end of the year, I 100% guarantee it. Zelda and likely a new Metroid will be shown off but not released until late 2014 going off how Wind Waker panned out, I agree. Looking at Mario Kart Wii and Smash Brawl though, I agree they're not going to be released 2013, but they WILL likely be released early 2014.

And that leads me on to your main point of discussion; the reality is the Wii U doesn't NEED any of those other games, most are content buying a Nintendo console to buy the new Smash, Kart, or Zelda/Metroid/3D Mario (not as much for those 3), and then letting the thing collect dust for years.



Otakumegane on 28 March 2013
Mr Khan said:
The fun one is how GameCube is now praised retroactively for its robust 3rd party support...


Well we did get some good ones.

Tales, Resident Evil, MGS. (Others I can't remember.) Strangely enough the GC had the highest 3rd party ratio for me from any Nintendo console ever.

Close to 30%.



http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/92109/nintendopie/ Nintendopie  Was obviously right and I was obviously wrong. I will forever be a lesser being than them. (6/16/13)

curl-6 on 28 March 2013
Otakumegane said:
Mr Khan said:
The fun one is how GameCube is now praised retroactively for its robust 3rd party support...


Well we did get some good ones.

Tales, Resident Evil, MGS. (Others I can't remember.) Strangely enough the GC had the highest 3rd party ratio for me from any Nintendo console ever.

Close to 30%.

My third party ratio for the Wii was about the same as for the Gamecube; about 50-50. Same for the N64.



Captain_Tom on 28 March 2013
ECM said:
Captain_Tom said:
ECM said:
arsenalrc15 said:
NintendoPie said:

Iiiiinteresting.

Oh, and you're wrong. SW always increases HW. This has been proven over and over again. I don't know why you are trying to dis-prove this utter fact. (Plus, you're putting a lot of faith into some of those exclusives. I wouldn't do that.)


when did Wii software ever bring the console back to launch level sales?

Nintendo DS. It blew away launch sales about, oh, 10-months after a lukewarm launch, and pretty much demolished them for years after that.

Next invalid arugment...


So do you think that the Wii U is gonna do the same thing?

Since I  do not have a crystal ball, I cannot say, but the OP is clearly clueless and wrong., re: 'never approaching launch sales again' is obviously false, and it's happened innumerable times in the past.

The rest of my post made my argument: If the U gets momentum--defined as sufficient, big, games in a narrow window (say, 3-months)--it will do fine; if not, it will flounder like the Vita.


I just want you to look at what the DS did and its games (pokemon), and tell me that the Wii U is just as likely to do that.  Otherwise what you are saying is useless.  Saying the DS made a turnaround proves the Wii U is fine about as much as me saying the Dreamcast did badly proves the Wii U is doomed.  

 

So if someone brings up a valid case with points as to why the Wii U is in trouble, then come up with counter arguments.  Don't just say "Yeah well one console did bad then ok, so all must."  If anything Nintendo trends have shown us that the Wii was a fluke.