I honestly believe if Rayman, Pikmin, W101, and Wii Fit were all released in the first half of the year like planned then sales would be a good deal higher and would have helped the other titles released this year sell better.

Rayman Legends, Pikmin 3, Lego City Undercover, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Resident Evil Revelations, Wonderful 101, Wii Fit U, Injustice, Game & Wario is a pretty solid line up over 6 months and spans many different genres.

Im guessing if all those games released on time then Wii U weekly sales would be in the 50-70k range during that time, which is roughly double. A slight drought would have occurred in the summer and sales may have taken a dip but the baseline would still be higher and Wii U would be seen in a better light.

Fair enough, but the experience on the 360 and ps3 is more or less identical, and ps3 is 91, 360 89, wiiu 90 - so youre only telling half the story by pointing out the metacritic rating in the way you did.

By all means throw in some metacritic numbers, but give numbers for all versions, not just versions the wiiu scores better than, otherwise it suggests bias.

Whether it remained exclusive or not wouldn't make a great deal of difference imo, but Rayman Legends not releasing in February combined with the delays to various first party titles hasn't done the sales momentum of the Wii U any good during the launch window.

But now that Nintendo are set to launch at least 1 first party title every month the sales will pick up considerably. I'm still expecting the Wii U to have an installed userbase over 8m before the end of the year, the PS4 and One to have less than 2m each, the Wii U to continue to sell well next year with the releases of Yarn Yoshi, SMT x Fire Emblem, Mario Kart 8, X and Bayonetta 2 during the first 6 months and the PS4 and One hardware sales to slow to a crawl between January and April...but of course nobody is going to suggest that those two should go third party or start releasing their IPs on smartphones lol

because they already do?

Also, they have third party support to begin with.

As much, maybe not. But, it would've helped.

A very little bit, it would be more about bragging rights than game sales.

It seems so much like a platform Mario game to me. There already is a couple famous ones on the WiiU. Plus, clearly the tablet is not essential or it wouldn't be on everything now.

Would have helped more, because we wouldn't have had such a dry spell.

Also, would have sold roughly the same as it will on all the other systems now, so there you are.

Honestly the game is superb and speaking for myself it would have been the biggest reason for me to buy one so far. One the other hand, Rayman isn't a big selling game so it wouldn't had that much of a mainstream appeal for the average guy.

Wii U already has a much bigger platformer in MARIO, lol, it doesn't need Rayman and it would've helped in the sense that it would've shrunk the gap a bit but that's about it.

From what I'm hearing the game honestly isn't even all that great. Apparently it's incredibly short.

If it was going to sell systems in Feburary, then it should sell systems in September, especially since there's not another big Wii U release for a little while yet and it's only direct competetion (Wonderful 101) seems to have turned out to be a bomb.

No, what made the game look so good is it's touchpad capabilities, but we all know how that turned out.