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no 63 47.37%
 
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MTZehvor on 11 July 2013
EricFabian said:
MTZehvor said:

Pfft.

Sonic a system seller.

 

In all seriousness, a big no. The best selling Sonic titles are the Olympic Games ones with Mario, and excluding those the best selling recent Sonic title managed just over two and a half million units. Lost World will help move units, certainly, but it won't turn the Wii U from failing into a success.

It probably doesn't help that Lost World looks very similar to the recent 3D Mario titles.


for me, that is the reason of its [modest] sucess.

I agree, that certainly helps Sonic sell as a game. The issue is that it won't convince many other people to buy a Wii U. If Mario and Sonic are such similar games, the people who are likely to buy a Sonic game are those who are likely to already buy/have bought the Wii U to play Mario. In other words, it doesn't reach out to a different crowd. Helps the individual game sales, but not that of the console it's on.



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zorg1000 on 11 July 2013

Not alone but with the combination of other titles yes. I wouldnt say Pikmin, Wind Waker, Fit U, Party U, W101, DKC, 3D World, Sonic are system sellers on there own but when u put all of those together in a few months span then yes they will push alot of consoles.



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MTZehvor on 11 July 2013
zorg1000 said:
Not alone but with the combination of other titles yes. I wouldnt say Pikmin, Wind Waker, Fit U, Party U, W101, DKC, 3D World, Sonic are system sellers on there own but when u put all of those together in a few months span then yes they will push alot of consoles.

Definitely. Sonic's efforts, combined with those of other games, will definitely cause a rise in Wii U sales (if they don't, then I might even jump on the "Wii U is doomed" bandwagon). I just don't think that a Sonic game, were it hypothetically on its own, could sell systems by itself.



Mensrea on 11 July 2013

No.

It looks better than that 3D world though. I will be purchasing it.




WagnerPaiva on 11 July 2013

Around 50K or so. No more than that. However, every new game counts at this point.



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EricFabian on 11 July 2013
WagnerPaiva said:
Around 50K or so. No more than that. However, every new game counts at this point.


lol 50k for Sonic or for the system?



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WagnerPaiva on 11 July 2013
EricFabian said:
WagnerPaiva said:
Around 50K or so. No more than that. However, every new game counts at this point.


lol 50k for Sonic or for the system?

System sales caused by Sonic. The game will probably do around 300k-500k .



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curl-6 on 11 July 2013
Mensrea said:
It looks better than that 3D world though. I will be purchasing it.

Agreed. it's bizarre that we live in a world where the next 3D Sonic game looks better than the next 3D Mario game.



forethought14 on 11 July 2013

Lol no, it will never be



Lonely_Dolphin on 11 July 2013

No, as I really don't believe many people buy consoles solely for one game. Just look at NSMBU. Even a big multi-million selling franchise like that can't sell very many systems on it's own. I believe it's the combination of great games that move consoles, hence it'll be Sonic: LW + other games that sell Wii Us.