Here's hoping it does more respectable numbers than W101 at least.
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Media Create Sales: Week 7, 2014 (Feb 10 - Feb 16)
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Here's hoping it does more respectable numbers than W101 at least.
theprodigy
Member
WIU | 8.706 | 8.605
8706-8605=101
Wonderful 101 lives on :lol
talk about a DK/Wii U bomb this week
8706-8605=101
Wonderful 101 lives on :lol
talk about a DK/Wii U bomb this week
Vyse The Legend
Member
It was always going to sell better on the 3DS. There are way more of those in existence.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Welp. I give up with the Wii U.
I still believe the Smash fanbase will "ignore" the 3DS version.
I'm sure of it, and I'm an expert
Ahaha
Once you stare at Vita's glorious
OLED
*the effect make take longer to manifest for users of LCD model, sorry guys and girls.
Vita finally stabilised at 18k? Maybe, next month is going to be good with quite a few releases. Let's see if PS4 launch does anything for Vita sales. (doubtful)
Next week itself is going to be interesting, PS4 show us what you can do.
Donkey Bomb is well....
BlackLagoon
Member
I doubt they can just port Wii U titles to the 3DS in the traditional sense. Reuse the basic game design sure, but I would imagine most full retail games would need to be completely rebuilt with new game engines and assets.
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Member
Hahaha
I predict the franchise would be dead in 2 years. Look at LBX.
ThatStupidLion
Gold Member
Because all these wiiU games are bombing does that mean its the last we'll seenof these franchises? At least for a bit?
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
What makes matters worse is that half of the WiiU sales number was SmokeyDave buying consoles to burn at his altar to keep Vita stabilized.
PS4 launch will be very interesting. I really have little idea where the Japanese gamers' heads are at in relation to consoles nowadays.
PS4 launch will be very interesting. I really have little idea where the Japanese gamers' heads are at in relation to consoles nowadays.
Haven't been here in a while. lol
Time to sort out your software pricing, NCL. Handheld games @ £$19.99 - £$29.99 Yen equivalent, console games @ £$29.99 - £$39.99 Yen equivalent.
Errr...they'll be bloody good. lol
I doubt that very much.
Time to sort out your software pricing, NCL. Handheld games @ £$19.99 - £$29.99 Yen equivalent, console games @ £$29.99 - £$39.99 Yen equivalent.
Errr...they'll be bloody good. lol
I doubt that very much.
AcademicSaucer
Member
i hope so, if they have really gone full mobile/portable well ...
jeremy1456
Junior Member
If I'm not mistaken someone posted them in last week's thread and it wasn't particularly impressive.
NTIETS13A_Superiority
Banned
More important info would be amount shipped. Does anyone have that for ps3?
I think Nintendo is under the impression that it's the $300 hardware / $60 software business model that is out of fashion, that consumers are fundamentally not interested no matter what you do on the software front.
Metallix87
Member
I agree with this, actually. Nintendo has totally made a mess of the release schedule for this platform.
denshuu
Member
That game already broke my record for most months in advance I've put in a full week's PTO request.
But yeah, that's gonna be the least played MK since Super Circuit. I hope the online stays active.
People say that there's too much platformers on the wiiu and that DK may have been hurt by this, but that's what really is? I mean, the two biggest sellers on the system are platformers, with the other platformer released by them (Luigy U) having nice sales besides being an expansion pack.
Nintendo was just catering to it's consoles public. When the other games that did well are party games (Wii party, Nintendoland and, to a lesse extent, Taiko) the choice was obvious.
In fact, there's not even that much platformers being released in Japan for the system at all. There was Rayman and Sonic, both sold terribly, and there was it. It's not people being tired of platformers. If three games on an year and a half makes for tiring, most of the industry would crater.
Focusing on it's strenghts is a good strategy and Nintendo did that. It didn't work for other reasons, but people aren't tired of platformers. Watch DKTF being ported to the 3ds to see if the sales are as bad as this one... The problem here is that the few people that bought the system is not buying a lot of games, if they are buying at all. I thought after the holidays wiiu software would have a new baseline since there was a lot of people with a new system that wanted games, but no. They bought the system with Party, Mario U, bought Mario 3D and that was it. Nintendo should adress this right now, if they can...
Nintendo was just catering to it's consoles public. When the other games that did well are party games (Wii party, Nintendoland and, to a lesse extent, Taiko) the choice was obvious.
In fact, there's not even that much platformers being released in Japan for the system at all. There was Rayman and Sonic, both sold terribly, and there was it. It's not people being tired of platformers. If three games on an year and a half makes for tiring, most of the industry would crater.
Focusing on it's strenghts is a good strategy and Nintendo did that. It didn't work for other reasons, but people aren't tired of platformers. Watch DKTF being ported to the 3ds to see if the sales are as bad as this one... The problem here is that the few people that bought the system is not buying a lot of games, if they are buying at all. I thought after the holidays wiiu software would have a new baseline since there was a lot of people with a new system that wanted games, but no. They bought the system with Party, Mario U, bought Mario 3D and that was it. Nintendo should adress this right now, if they can...
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
holy shit, slap that pony in quotes, my friend
Booty Patrol
Banned
What the hell is causing this resurgence?
BishopLamont
Banned
Anime.
Waluigilicious
Member
The 3DS version will sell more due to multiple purchases. We are going to have two 3DS copies and one Wii U copy since my brother wants to have his own 3DS game (other games we did this with are Pokemon, Animal Crossing and Mario Kart)
So yeah, even though the Wii U version will get more playtime than both our 3DS versions combined, the 3DS version might sell more due to this reason.
Either way Nintendo wins. We are getting three copies of Smash instead of one. THREE. My sister has her own Kart, Animal Crossing and Pokemon too but she probably won't get her own Smash Bros. Then again you never know and if she does that will be four times the copies!
So yeah, even though the Wii U version will get more playtime than both our 3DS versions combined, the 3DS version might sell more due to this reason.
Either way Nintendo wins. We are getting three copies of Smash instead of one. THREE. My sister has her own Kart, Animal Crossing and Pokemon too but she probably won't get her own Smash Bros. Then again you never know and if she does that will be four times the copies!
they are buying games, platformers, this one sold to 1 38th of the market, while returns sold to 1 69th, this one launched feb 21st and returns december 9th 2010, there is 1.6m Wii Us and there was ~11m Wiis at the time returns launched, if they expected better than 43k (I assume this is the download cards for the difference) then they had unreasonable expectations for the software. the reality is that platformers are a fulfilled genre on Wii U, it won't sell consoles anymore.
perfectchaos007
Member
So unless DK:TF does really well in the states, I imagine the trilogy is cancelled. Retro will have to find something else to work on
Hydrargyrus
Member
It seems like Cranky Kong won't see another DK in WiiU.
Who said there was going to be a trilogy?
Brainiac 8
Member
Considering how insanely high the Wii install base was at the time, that was a terrible first week too.
Donkey Kong just isn't that popular in Japan apparently. Go figure... :?\
Poor Wii U...it's about time we lay you into the ground and let you rest.
DKCR did great relative to Wii LTD at the time. Wii U install base is too small for Tropical Freeze to do decently. It doesn't look like it's a system seller either. One of Nintendo's many platformers to fall flat on the Wii U. I always thought Donkey Kong was popular in Japan, but no, it looks like the series really isn't.
DKCR did great relative to Wii LTD at the time. Wii U install base is too small for Tropical Freeze to do decently. It doesn't look like it's a system seller either. One of Nintendo's many platformers to fall flat on the Wii U. I always thought Donkey Kong was popular in Japan, but no, it looks like the series really isn't.
I don't think you can say that about series that can hit a milllion units.
I'm kind of surprised that the Wii U hardware went up at all, honestly. Maybe I just expect all Wii U titles to do more horribly than expected.
It's a psychological barrier. Selling 18k is still terrible but given how the Vita sold last year, it looks good in comparison The reality is that it's still selling bad. Vita fans are going to hide behind the "at least it's over last year's YTD" all year long, taking over for the "at least it's over 10k".
Poetic.Injustice
Member
The game went on to sell 638,305 copies.
I'm sure Monster Games is already hard at work porting Tropical Freeze to 3DS.
Yokai Watch will break 500k units sold in a few weeks! To think some people declared the game a failure a few months ago. It's doing really great and if they are able to sustain the popularity, L5 has finally found a new series they can exploit for the foreseeable future.
Yokai Watch will break 500k units sold in a few weeks! To think some people declared the game a failure a few months ago. It's doing really great and if they are able to sustain the popularity, L5 has finally found a new series they can exploit for the foreseeable future.
Not well. At this point I feel like both are going to under 100k.