2014-06-03, 04:28 AM
byakugan Wrote:Ok so Iwata's claims that a console can be saved by a couple games seem to be true. Mario Kart is definitely doing great breathing some life into the Wii U and Smash bros is definitely gonna do more than that. Now all that Nintendo's got to do is announce a couple awesome games during the E3 to keep the playerbase interested (Heroes of Hyrule, X and Bayoneta seem to be all there is).. I know many will be like "heck no" but I think announcing a new Super Mario Galaxy game for the Wii U would be the cherry on top to put the Wii U back on the competition (and a Majora's Mask remake for the love of god)
The Wii U isn't "saved" at all. Mario Kart + a free download of another complete retail game is doing well at launch, yeah.
But I'm pretty sure it's going to drop off a cliff in sales again though and never come up again for 6 months until smash bros launches, where the process will repeat with a minor blip in sales and then nothing again.
That's what happens when you have no software (only game of any note in the next 2 months is an eshop game which is just a sequel to a 3ds eshop game, pushmo). Then maybe hyrule warriors in august (that's when it launches in Japan). Then nothing until smash bros. A couple of days of momentum means nothing if you can't carry it with other software, which is impossible for any one company to do.
tldr: it's still never going to even get close to gamecube sales. Hell, I'm still not sure it can reach dreamcast sales.