Hyrule Warriors Pushed Japanese Wii U Software Sales to “Four Times” Amount of Last Year, Hardware Selling Wel

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Joaco <3 N64 on 19 August 2014

Only a couple hours more to go and we can finally see how Hyrule Warriors performed on its first week in Japan.

I'm more interested in Wii U's HW sales though.

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Maraccuda on 20 August 2014

vivster said:
So if you release more software, people will buy more software?

Nintendo finally found their secret recipe.

Shhh! That is the secret to selling consoles and obliviously isnt known to Nintendo yet.

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Smear-Gel on 20 August 2014

vivster said:

KLAMarine said:

vivster said:
So if you release more software, people will buy more software?

Nintendo finally found their secret recipe.

I'm detecting some sarcasm here: you speak as though Nintendo didn't already know this.

Well if they knew of it before the next question would be why they didn't act upon it earlier.

So we can choose from either ignorant or incompetent. I like the first one. What's your choice?

They stated that MK8, 3D World, Pikmin 3 and a few other games were supposed to come out earlier, and would have really helped give the console that early push, but they took too long on them. So I guess they just need more staff.

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HyrulianScrolls on 20 August 2014

Too bad it will probably be one of the more "meh" Wii U exclusives on deck. But then again, we're talking about a country that considers Nintendogs to be an amazing gaming franchise and often shuns 3D Zelda games...

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ECM said:

I like the third option: games cost huge amounts of time, money, and resources to make, and one company can only do so much while supporting two different platforms that aren't directly compatible.

(Just ask Sony and MS and their, in relative terms, anemic first party output.)

Sony's first party output is anemic? They released 8 first-party games last year, compared to Nintendo's 6 first-party games in 2013.