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Forums - Nintendo - So Mario Kart 8 Isn't Going To Give The Wii U Even 1 Month At 100k+ In The US?

DarkRPGamer007 on 06 July 2014

Hey all the Wii U provided t this point has been quality titles. Granted sales are disappointing and I'd like to see my favorite company flourish but critically they are fine



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Soundwave on 06 July 2014
DevilRising said:
etking said:

They need to drop the tablet and cut the price as soon as possible. And create a Wii-U Sports HD bundle targeted at mass market Wii owners and Girls.

It takes some time and effort to make existing games and software capable of running without the oversized tablet but it is well worth the effort if the system can receive a 100$ price cut. Nintendo needs to act now, even if it is almost too late. A mass-market Wii-U Sports HD Bundle should have been there from day 1 instad of Nintendoland and the tablet should have been much lighter and smaller, so it is time to redesign or drop it.

 

Thank god you're not running the company then.

 

Because it's not a tablet. Go look up a pic of an iPad. THAT is a tablet.

 

 

And while the initial sales boost from MK8 wasn't as big immediately as some thought (or hoped), the game will have major legs, and it will also help with a prolonged boost in system sales over time. They need to continue advertising it more, and get more copies of that MK bundle out into the wild. But this "doom" talk is still fairly ridiculous.

It needs to get the system over a 100k at least. Even that really is not a good level of sales, that would put it at about GameCube level sales, but right now they can't even manage that. 

I mean I don't know how the situation can be spun optimistically. Sub-100k sales for like 8-9 straight months even with Mario Kart 8 is Dreamcast territory, not even sure if the Dreamcast was that bad. 



rik on 06 July 2014
Soundwave said:
rik said:
Soundwave said:
rik said:
Jesus guys this gen of consoles has like another 5 - 7 yrs left stop saying things have failed its getting boring now. Yes xone and wii u aint selling great right now anything could happen in the next short  years. Chill.


XOne maybe can turn it around, but the Wii U already has spent Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, DKC, NSMBU, Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Play, Nintendo Land, Pikmin, etc. There's just not many bullets left in the gun as it were, maybe a miracle can happen though like Splatoon becomes the next huge blockbuster gaming franchise like a Minecraft or something. 

But at this stage it's kinda like a guy who's been working out for 3 months and can still only manage like 3 push-ups thinking he's going to win a strong man competetion. The Wii U doesn't look like it's going to have 100k+ month in North America until November ... though maybe they can eek it out for June because it's 5 weeks instead of 4. 


Yeah i agree to some extent but you forget one thing. Pokemon. If nintendo release a 3d Wii u pokemon it could be huge and who knows waht games they got for late 15 and 16. Galaxy three maybe?  It may carve a good market for a second console. Also sonic boom if the cartoon takes off with kids could move systems. Xbox one i aint to sure about halo gone down hill dead rising flopped forza didnt sell that well titanfall sales slowed down so i dont know


Lets be real, Sonic hasn't been a system seller in like 20 years. So that's out. 

Lol ok fair one i just chucked that out there. In wii u defense though it has some steller exclusives people just buy one



Soundwave on 06 July 2014
rik said:
Soundwave said:
TheLegendaryWolf said:
It's summer, video games' slowest time of the year.


Then lets compare to the GameCube during it's exact same point in its lifecycle (summer 2003):

June 03 - 124k

July 03 - 126k

August 03 - 100k

September 03 - 165k

The sad thing is I'm not sure the *3DS* can even match some of these numbers this summer, let alone the Wii U. 

Gamecube was like 99 bucks thats pocketmoney for most working people. You just bought it on a whim it was soo cheap. It still sold fairly bad though but made a profit (unlike xbox and ps).


It wasn't $99 until fall 2003 though. And factoring in inflation and the fact that it didn't include a free game too brings the comparision more into balance. It was also competing against PS2 and XBox which were also cheaper than a PS4/X1. 

Though it's probably fair to say, Nintendo will be fairly shy about releasing anything above $200-$250 ever again. 



phaedruss on 06 July 2014
KLXVER said:
phaedruss said:

Mario Kart 8 is arcadey as hell as is Smash Brothers and most of Nintendo's games are arcadey except a few.


Yeah, but theyre not just ports of already existing arcade games...


So what, neither were a lot of Dreamcast's great games.



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episteme on 06 July 2014

Well, we don't know that much yet.

25k MK8 bundles were sold during the last two days of May and we heard of availability issues of the MK8 bundle in June.

MK8 will be the main factor besides Smash for the next holiday season, it doesn't just affect sales for a few weeks.



KLXVER on 06 July 2014
phaedruss said:
KLXVER said:
phaedruss said:

Mario Kart 8 is arcadey as hell as is Smash Brothers and most of Nintendo's games are arcadey except a few.


Yeah, but theyre not just ports of already existing arcade games...


So what, neither were a lot of Dreamcast's great games.


That console is overrated imo. Probably because it was the last Sega console.



rik on 06 July 2014
Soundwave said:
rik said:
Soundwave said:
TheLegendaryWolf said:
It's summer, video games' slowest time of the year.


Then lets compare to the GameCube during it's exact same point in its lifecycle (summer 2003):

June 03 - 124k

July 03 - 126k

August 03 - 100k

September 03 - 165k

The sad thing is I'm not sure the *3DS* can even match some of these numbers this summer, let alone the Wii U. 

Gamecube was like 99 bucks thats pocketmoney for most working people. You just bought it on a whim it was soo cheap. It still sold fairly bad though but made a profit (unlike xbox and ps).


It wasn't $99 until fall 2003 though. And factoring in inflation and the fact that it didn't include a free game too brings the comparision more into balance. It was also competing against PS2 and XBox which were also cheaper than a PS4/X1. 

Though it's probably fair to say, Nintendo will be fairly shy about releasing anything above $200-$250 ever again. 

Yeah i owned a ngc ps2 and xbox back then and actually gc and xbox were the better consoles imo and they both sold less then 25mill. 360 and.ps3 were better then wii but ps4 xone and wii u seem closer again. Oh yeah i had dreamcast too not bad either sega just ran out off money



DarkRPGamer007 on 06 July 2014

Well if they really want Wii U to get selling they'll need a new game every month which is hard to do no doubt



XBOX ONE/Wii U/3DS/PC

RIP Iwata 12/6/1959-7/11/2015

Thanks for all the great memories!

Soundwave on 06 July 2014

Wii U vs. Dreamcast by the end of their lifecycles should be an interesting showdown ...

Mario 3D World, Zelda U, Smash Bros. U, Mario Kart 8, Splatoon, Bayonetta 2, Xenoblade X, Zombi U, Donkey Kong Country: TF, Hyrule Warriors, Star Fox U, Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Yarn Yoshi

versus

Shenmue 1/2, Sonic Adventure 1/2, Skies of Arcadia, Jet Set Radio, Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter 3, Resident Evil, Soul Calibur, NBA 2K, NFL 2K, Powerstone, PSO ...

Too bad the Wii U and Dreamcast couldn't have sex and make a baby ... it'd be a glorious console, lol.

Pretty close. If Zelda U is better than Wind Waker, I think Wii U wins that showdown though.