Actually, quite a few of us were pleased, since prior DKC games are quite beloved. You're generalizing. 

And for the love of Pete, trim your bloody quote trees, both of you, its an eyesore.

DK games have always sold a minimum or 5 million.  The only one that did'nt (DKC3) still sold 3.5 million and you couldnt use DK or Diddy, and it came out when the next-gen had already launched.     On top of all of that Tropical Freeze is on pace to have 1.5 times more pre-orders then Super Mario 3D World which has already sold 1.65 million WW, and 1.4 million Wii U's have been sold since SM3DW's launch.   With the hype around it, and the appeal to casual and hardcore gamers, I would'nt even be shocked if this Donkey Kong does better then SM3DW, expecially since Nintendo has'nt overused the Donkey Kong franchise by any means.   Even the 3DS port of DKCR has sold 1.2 million, which would make it the top selling Vita game.  

Ouch, be gentle with him, his name is "PlayStationLegend" ;)

And you too, trim your quote trees, they're ridiculously overlong.

superhippy420 said:

DK games have always sold a minimum or 5 million.  The only one that did'nt (DKC3) still sold 3.5 million and you couldnt use DK or Diddy, and it came out when the next-gen had already launched.     On top of all of that Tropical Freeze is on pace to have 1.5 times more pre-orders then Super Mario 3D World which has already sold 1.65 million WW, and 1.4 million Wii U's have been sold since SM3DW's launch.   With the hype around it, and the appeal to casual and hardcore gamers, I would'nt even be shocked if this Donkey Kong does better then SM3DW, expecially since Nintendo has'nt overused the Donkey Kong franchise by any means.   Even the 3DS port of DKCR has sold 1.2 million, which would make it the top selling Vita game.  

Still won't "re-vitalise" the Wii U. ; )

My bad on the quote trees. I know that DKCR 3D stat is pretty harsh, but it just shows that Donkey Kong is a bigger franchise then people give it credit for. Part of that big gap between the SNES to N64 and then N64 to Gamecube had alot to do with Nintendo not making Donkey Kong games. Donkey Konga even sold over 1 million, and was'nt even a real DK game.

Damn son my eyes are bleeding from dem quote trees.

As for the topic? Dk wont do anything for the wii-u sadly.

Just a heads up, you won't last long on this forum if you maintain the attitude you've displayed so far.

Not on its own, but it will make the Wii U all that more appealing as time goes on.    A library with NSMBU,NintendoLand,Pikmin 3,Wind Waker HD, and SM3DW is pretty weak.  A library with those plus DK,Mario Kart,Smash Bros,X,Hyrule Warriors, and Yoshi's Yarn begins to be very hard to ignore.  

X, Hyrule Warriors, and Yarn Yoshi aren't doing much. Probably not DKC either. NSMBU and Mario 3D World are bigger than all those. X will likely be lucky to sell as well as Pikmin 3. 

It's basically all on Mario Kart to salvage this, if it can't do it, nothing can. 

N64 had an install base of just over 30m and DK sold over 5m

SNES had an install base of just under 50m and the three DK games averaged about 6m.

Gamecube had an install base of just over 20m and 2 spinoff titles that required accesories sold over 1m. A mainline traditional platformer would have sold around 3-5m on Gamecube.

When did I ever say anything about hype? I think this game will cause a modest boost for 2-3 weeks then sales drop back down.