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Forums - Nintendo - Nintendo Gamuurs: Did Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze's 108,000FW American sales make you breath a sigh of relief?

Mythmaker1 on 28 February 2014
Clyde32 said:
Mythmaker1 said:
Looking at the global sales picture, I can't help but notice that Pikmin 3 sold more its first week. Not by all that much, though, so hopefully, Donkey Kong can still keep pace with Pikmin.


You are talking first week. We are talking first 2 days. 

Pikmin 3 didn't get a full week either. In Japan, it only had 1 day.

In general, the number of days a game is available during the week is largely irrelevant.



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dahuman on 28 February 2014

I don't see how people can see this as a hardware mover TBH, it's too hard for people who suck at video games, so only a minority would pick up a Wii U just for DK. The only game that will really move some hardware so far this year will be MK8, not Bayo2, not X, not anything else since Nintendo hasn't revealed more full fledged games, it's just MK8 so far, and maybe Smash, maybe!



ZyroXZ2 on 28 February 2014
Fusioncode said:

The sales are currently disproving your theory. The WiiU had an abysmal January 2013, but it's gotten plenty of big first party releases since then with Pikmin 3, 3D World, and Wind Waker HD. Yet even with a bigger lineup and cheaper price it was actually down YOY in January. Still selling worse than it did last year.  If Donkey Kong isn't moving units now it's not going to do so next week or next month. The hardware is not going to see gradual increases every week, that doesn't make any sense. Mario Kart and Smash Bros are the only ones that will sell systems, and Mario Kart is 3 months away. 

In the face of the PS4 and the XBox1, the fact the the Wii U HASN'T entirely dropped off the map also says contrary to your statement.  I think if the Wii U didn't have the already solid library, it would have pulled XBox360-in-Japan sales.  With the solid and growing library, it still remains "relevant", especially now that it looks like it might have secured 2nd place for 2014 instead of the "distant 3rd" people were claiming (this is looking at the XBox1's exclusives and the Wii U's exclusives this year and looking at the WW sales gap between the two).



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archbrix on 28 February 2014
softcoregamer82 said:
archbrix said:

For the console, yes, but when you factor in buying a newly released game like a DK or a Mario Kart, that's another $50-$60.  Granted, you're also getting Mario and Luigi in the deal as well but when you compare the situation to past Nintendo consoles it's quite expensive:

Gamecube (at this point in its life):  $150 + $50 for a new game.  That's a total of $200 for a new consumer to take the plunge on a Nintendo console enticed by a new game they were awaiting.

With WiiU, you're now paying $300 + $50-$60 for a new game.  So a new consumer is currently having to pay a minimum of $350 in the same scenario.  Nintendo has never been in this position before and I believe that's the main deterrent regarding WiiU.

At the very least they need to bundle Mario Kart 8 for $299 but truthfully a "$249/w MK8 bundle" is really what they need to deliver much more desirable results.

You failed to account for over ten years of inflation.  If you had, you would see the price gap between the two is a lot less.

Consumers aren't going to focus on an inflation difference either, so that's largely irrelevant.  They're just going to see that the price for a Nintendo console has never been that high before.

The Wii was five years after the Gamecube and inflation didn't prevent its launch price from being affordable.



Fusioncode on 28 February 2014
ZyroXZ2 said:
Fusioncode said:

The sales are currently disproving your theory. The WiiU had an abysmal January 2013, but it's gotten plenty of big first party releases since then with Pikmin 3, 3D World, and Wind Waker HD. Yet even with a bigger lineup and cheaper price it was actually down YOY in January. Still selling worse than it did last year.  If Donkey Kong isn't moving units now it's not going to do so next week or next month. The hardware is not going to see gradual increases every week, that doesn't make any sense. Mario Kart and Smash Bros are the only ones that will sell systems, and Mario Kart is 3 months away. 

In the face of the PS4 and the XBox1, the fact the the Wii U HASN'T entirely dropped off the map also says contrary to your statement.  I think if the Wii U didn't have the already solid library, it would have pulled XBox360-in-Japan sales.  With the solid and growing library, it still remains "relevant", especially now that it looks like it might have secured 2nd place for 2014 instead of the "distant 3rd" people were claiming (this is looking at the XBox1's exclusives and the Wii U's exclusives this year and looking at the WW sales gap between the two).

So do you have any numbers backing up your statement? The WiiU is still selling worse than the XBO every week and nearly a third of what the PS4 is selling. There is no way WiiU is going to be the second best selling console this year, I'm talking about yearly sales not LTD. If the solid growing library isn't helping WiiU now then it's certainly not going to help them in the next 3 months where there are virtually no games coming out. Your idea that the WiiU is going to see week on week increases thanks to Donkey Kong is ludicrous. PS4 and XBO owners will get big exclusives next month while the WiiU gets absolutely nothing. 



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