I'm not saying to make a 100% casual console. But making a console for everyone. The Wii was a console for everyone. Casual gamers had Wifit, Wii Sports and puzzle games and part games. Core Games had Super Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Returns, Hardcore Gamers had Sin and Punishment, Xenoblade and Last Stroy among many others. New Super Mario and Mario Kart were played by all groups (see their huge sales). The wiiu is too expensive for the core / casual public, but it also do not has its own games appeal to any of these types of public. Nintendo should release the Wii U with a better Wiinote and with New Super Mario U with a Bundle for 250$. 2D Mario is adored by all groups and it would be much better than wanting to sell technology (WIIU Gamepad) for fans of technology and gadgets (a type of movement like Apple). It would be a better choice and could have better results in the medium run.

Nintendo doesn't get that marketing new IPs is pretty much essential now if they want it to succeed.

People correlate quality to the amount of marketing they see nowadays because of how much $$ is spent marketing the big name franchises.

I do believe Miyamoto's will have more marketing because heck he's Miyamoto.

However, maybe they're the type to test the waters 1st and not bank success on the 1st entry. I didn't see any marketing for Xenoblade in the west and that apparently did better than in EU and JP being years ater than everyone else and on a declining platform.

My guess is that they never really planned on haing this game sell well, it was just an effort for 3rd party relations. Can't be bad as Capcom having Remember Me and Lost Planet 3 bomb.

Ermm, what happened to the Vita's momentum? Lets hoipe this week is an anomaly.

while i agree neither game is a system seller anyone that would want a Vita for these games could have done the smart thing and bought one last week on sale somewhere seeing as it was Obon week

Yes, but Vita is not below the 10k terrible mark, and it is up compared to their worst weeks, while Wii U is going fast again to those.

Damn I was not expecting those hardware numbers this week... ouch. Hopefully they rebound next week.

W101 D;

Can anyone tell me if this is the lowest number of wiiU sold in Japan in it's lifetime, because I don't recall the wiiU doing lower then 8-9k in Japan. It is very sad, just when we thought the wiiU was getting the ball rolling and was over 10k, it crashes completely to 7k. As others have already stated, a 40% decrease over the previous week. Depressing indeed.

Let's hope so indeed.

What you mean i always thought the series is more associated with the playstation brand since the early ps2 days. The series should of stayed only on portables. PSV/3DS or like God Eater 2 PSV/PSP