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Wiil DKC:TF help Wii U sales?

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no 87 32.71%
 
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tbone51 on 25 January 2014
prayformojo said:
T.Rexington said:

Ultimately, I say no. I do think it'll have legs and be a profitable venture, especially if it turns out similar in quality to the last DK game on the Wii. It just doesn't seem to have the same level of anticipation going for it. Frankly, I kind blame it on the name. Tropical Freeze sounds a bit underwhelming as a sequel title. It sounds like something you'd name a DLC with. Maro Kart and Super Smash Bros will be the big hardware movers in my opinion.


I agree with the name. The same goes for alot of Nintendo IP imo. The last DKC game should have been "Donkey Kong Country 4 (insert phrase)". This game should be "Donkey Kong Country 5 (insert phrase)". We still haven't gotten a Super Mario Bros. 4 or New Super Mario bros. 2.

Thankfully, Pikmin got it right.





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prayformojo on 25 January 2014
tbone51 said:
prayformojo said:
T.Rexington said:

Ultimately, I say no. I do think it'll have legs and be a profitable venture, especially if it turns out similar in quality to the last DK game on the Wii. It just doesn't seem to have the same level of anticipation going for it. Frankly, I kind blame it on the name. Tropical Freeze sounds a bit underwhelming as a sequel title. It sounds like something you'd name a DLC with. Maro Kart and Super Smash Bros will be the big hardware movers in my opinion.


I agree with the name. The same goes for alot of Nintendo IP imo. The last DKC game should have been "Donkey Kong Country 4 (insert phrase)". This game should be "Donkey Kong Country 5 (insert phrase)". We still haven't gotten a Super Mario Bros. 4 or New Super Mario bros. 2.

Thankfully, Pikmin got it right.




I'm talking about consoles lol.



tbone51 on 25 January 2014
prayformojo said:
tbone51 said:
prayformojo said:
T.Rexington said:

Ultimately, I say no. I do think it'll have legs and be a profitable venture, especially if it turns out similar in quality to the last DK game on the Wii. It just doesn't seem to have the same level of anticipation going for it. Frankly, I kind blame it on the name. Tropical Freeze sounds a bit underwhelming as a sequel title. It sounds like something you'd name a DLC with. Maro Kart and Super Smash Bros will be the big hardware movers in my opinion.


I agree with the name. The same goes for alot of Nintendo IP imo. The last DKC game should have been "Donkey Kong Country 4 (insert phrase)". This game should be "Donkey Kong Country 5 (insert phrase)". We still haven't gotten a Super Mario Bros. 4 or New Super Mario bros. 2.

Thankfully, Pikmin got it right.




I'm talking about consoles lol.


How would that franchise work though as the HH have that already :P Would it be called NSMB Wii2 or NSMB WiiU2? I think the name is fine.... The console name is just off.



prayformojo on 25 January 2014
tbone51 said:
prayformojo said:
tbone51 said:
prayformojo said:
T.Rexington said:

Ultimately, I say no. I do think it'll have legs and be a profitable venture, especially if it turns out similar in quality to the last DK game on the Wii. It just doesn't seem to have the same level of anticipation going for it. Frankly, I kind blame it on the name. Tropical Freeze sounds a bit underwhelming as a sequel title. It sounds like something you'd name a DLC with. Maro Kart and Super Smash Bros will be the big hardware movers in my opinion.


I agree with the name. The same goes for alot of Nintendo IP imo. The last DKC game should have been "Donkey Kong Country 4 (insert phrase)". This game should be "Donkey Kong Country 5 (insert phrase)". We still haven't gotten a Super Mario Bros. 4 or New Super Mario bros. 2.

Thankfully, Pikmin got it right.




I'm talking about consoles lol.


How would that franchise work though as the HH have that already :P Would it be called NSMB Wii2 or NSMB WiiU2? I think the name is fine.... The console name is just off.


I agree. I forgot about the DS release of the original. Maybe the original DS game should have never been made and instead, released on Wii as Super Mario Bros. 4? Idk, I just think it's messed up how I've waited nearly 24 years for a Super Mario Bros. 4 and they won't give it to me lol.



Sareth on 25 January 2014

Super Mario Bros. 4 already came out.



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F0X on 26 January 2014

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zorg1000 on 26 January 2014
prayformojo said:
tbone51 said:
prayformojo said:
tbone51 said:
prayformojo said:
T.Rexington said:

Ultimately, I say no. I do think it'll have legs and be a profitable venture, especially if it turns out similar in quality to the last DK game on the Wii. It just doesn't seem to have the same level of anticipation going for it. Frankly, I kind blame it on the name. Tropical Freeze sounds a bit underwhelming as a sequel title. It sounds like something you'd name a DLC with. Maro Kart and Super Smash Bros will be the big hardware movers in my opinion.


I agree with the name. The same goes for alot of Nintendo IP imo. The last DKC game should have been "Donkey Kong Country 4 (insert phrase)". This game should be "Donkey Kong Country 5 (insert phrase)". We still haven't gotten a Super Mario Bros. 4 or New Super Mario bros. 2.

Thankfully, Pikmin got it right.




I'm talking about consoles lol.


How would that franchise work though as the HH have that already :P Would it be called NSMB Wii2 or NSMB WiiU2? I think the name is fine.... The console name is just off.


I agree. I forgot about the DS release of the original. Maybe the original DS game should have never been made and instead, released on Wii as Super Mario Bros. 4? Idk, I just think it's messed up how I've waited nearly 24 years for a Super Mario Bros. 4 and they won't give it to me lol.


Why does it matter if it has 4 at the end?



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superhippy420 on 26 January 2014

So here's my 2 reasons why I think the new Donkey Kong will give the Wii U a sizable bump.

1. DKC Returns came out in November/December of 2010 depending on the territory and was Nintendo's only big Wii release they had for months. By the end of the year it had already sold 3.5 million copies, which is great in itself, but what's even better to me is that it helped the Wii stay as the best selling console during the December of 2010, even after the Wii had already sold 75 million units. At that point in the Wii's life, it's very hard to make a case that Wii Sports and New Super Mario Bros were the one's moving consoles, when they had been out for a considerable amount of time. Another interesting thing to note is that the Kinect had released during the same holiday season, and in theory the Kinect as a device should have pushed the 360 past the Wii, but Donkey Kong's presence kept the Wii ahead for one last holiday season.

2. It's currently sitting at 78k U.S. preorders. SM3DW had 100k preorders when it released and Nintendo games almost always receive 35 - 45 percent of their pre-orders in the last 2 weeks. With 2 weeks to go Tropical Freeze should be sitting at atleast 88k in U.S. Preorders, and if the pattern holds true, DK will end up with 130 - 140k in pre-orders. That's a really good sign considering SM3DW sold 700k in the U.S. I really think that there is more interest and excitement for this game then SM3DW. Donkey Kong has not been overexposed by any means, unlike Mario,Pokemon, and Zelda, and people who love the DKC games have been waiting 3.5 years for a new one.

That's my analysis using some numbers. Either way, DK can't save the Wii U on it's own, but I do think think that it will pull even with the Xbox One, and maybe the PS4 (depending on how far the PS4 drops in a month) for atleast 4 weeks. If they somehow could get Mario Kart out by the end of March, then the Wii U would be in really good shape moving forward.



kekrot on 26 January 2014
VitroBahllee said:
My take on it is - a HUGE percentage of people who already own a Wii U (like me) will get it. Only a few people who don't have one will get it for this when it comes out. And when games like Mario Kart and Smash come out, a lot of the people who buy Wii U's then will get this. I think this will be a game where a lot of people who buy a Wii U from here on out will get this game, but I don't think a significant number of people who do not currently own a Wii U will buy one to play this title. I think it is a title that a significant amount of future Wii U owners will buy retroactively.

But as a system seller, I say it will not hugely appeal to people who didn't already buy a Wii U for NSMB U.


Exactly this. Maybe it'll even perform better than Returns lifetime even with a definitively smaller install base when this gen concludes, since it comes out just after a year after the Wii U launched, while it took Returns 4 years to launch after the Wii launched. 

Either way, Tropical Freeze will be immensely better than Returns because Retro has experience now, plus David Wise.



Yep.

Mike_L on 26 January 2014

I definitely think that the game will "help push Wii U sales". At least it's the game that gets me to buy a WiiU.