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oniyide on 18 June 2016
Miyamotoo said:
oniyide said:

How do we know casuals didnt buy TP? Judging by how the series usually sells, I'm inclined to believe that a good chunk might have bought Zelda.

Some casual definitely buyed TP but most TP buyers were core gamers not casuals who actually buyed Wii on first place to play Wii Sports. Just to mention that on launch Zelda TP was sold everywhere.

If we look at the overall sales for the series as a whole. I would say close to half of those were from casual sales. Im thinking maybe 2.5-3mil



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DannyDesario on 18 June 2016

Not too many. Hardcore Nintendo fans already bought the Wii U for Smash. It would be a short terms sales boost. I would've hoped it was like that sales boost with Mario Kart 8 that had the Wii U beating the X1 for weeks on end, but the Wii U is dead. Zelda was pretty much thought to be the swan song even before the NX was announced.



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Jranation on 18 June 2016

Having it on the Wii U is just Nintendo keeping its promise to fans and fans last enjoyment on the Wii U (if they are not getting the NX like in its first few months)



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Jumpin on 18 June 2016

It would probably move fewer consoles than it will on the NX.



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Guitarguy on 18 June 2016

I'm not too sure but in my mind it would have been the Shenmue for the Wii U in that it contained the depth and complexity that most Wii U(Dreamcast) games lacked.



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tak13 on 18 June 2016
Soundwave said:
Not much.

Every big Nintendo IP has been hyped here as the messiah for Wii U sales (first it was NSMB, then Super Mario 3D World, then Mario Kart 8, then Smash Brothers, then Splatoon).

Mario Kart 8 caused a modest 2 month bump in the West with a free game promotion.

Splatoon caused a OK hardware boost in Japan for a little while.

That was basically it. Sales levels for the machine were still consistently under the GameCube even with those bumps.

 Irrelevant comparison, how many times will I tell you that... GC had two huge price drops in two years consecutively, wii u had none...

Mario kart 8 had doubled the weekly  baseline for  five months and hepled wii u on holidays in the west! Splatoon ( along with super mario maker )  made wii u to have huge holidays in Japan ( repeating the sales of its best year, 2013 but this time with expensive bundles, not like the killer ones of 2013 )  which create wii u shortages later, do you forget the 100k selling week in Japan?

 

The 60% attach rate of Mario kart 8, means something...

Soundwave... Show finally some love to the poor wii u! 



Magnus on 18 June 2016

Nintendo should have never ported Botw to NX, and betray the people who bought a Wii U.



oniyide on 18 June 2016
Magnus said:
Nintendo should have never ported Botw to NX, and betray the people who bought a Wii U.

you for real?



Trunkin on 19 June 2016

Wan mirrion units.

Wan.

Mirrion.



bunchanumbers on 19 June 2016

There are people who are posting that they will go out and buy a Wii U now after watching E3. I think that it would have been a million easily. Plus there would have been word of mouth about other great titles like Xenoblade Chronicles X and Bayonetta 2. I think there would have been a mini revival of Wii U love.