Thanks for the education, but series like Monster Hunter, Pokemon and Animal Crossing are genuine system sellers in Japan. My point was Wii U needs a game to capture the public's imagination.
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SM3DW sells 107k in Japan, lowest 3D Mario debut ever
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Thanks for the education, but series like Monster Hunter, Pokemon and Animal Crossing are genuine system sellers in Japan. My point was Wii U needs a game to capture the public's imagination.
TheJollyCorner
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we'll find out in Feb. when PS4 launches there.
If PS4 is selling millions all over the rest of the world and hits Japan like a fart in the wind, then yeah, Japan is lost.
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Japan.
Bomber Bob
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SM3DW 3DS would have sold 1M+ first day
Maybe if consumer value was somehow derived from sales numbers it could do this, yes.
Sintoid
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Came to post this
Portugeezer
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If you bought an N64 at launch what the fuck was you supposed to get? Same story with NSMBU, sold like half the install base...
Prince Vultan
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Mess.
Wii U was pretty much dead already, so this is less the final nail in the coffin and more digging up and desecrating it's corpse.
Wii U was pretty much dead already, so this is less the final nail in the coffin and more digging up and desecrating it's corpse.
It saddens me how people find joy in seeing a console failing, let alone one of the highest rated games of the year.
They buy 3ds games on launch day/week though. Unless the target is really that different between console and handheld.
Neuromancer
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I'm not surprised, big heat wave in Japan right now.
-MD-
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How is it a bad product?
Heavy's Sandvich
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You're absolutely right, I was just hoping the gaming public would be more receptive to the game and purchase a Wii U for it.
That's Japan, where handhelds and mobile rule the world.
Between this and Lightning Returns totally bombing, I'm starting to fear for consoles in Japan. It'll be interesting to see what happens with PS4.
This thought process only works if people assume that every system sold goes to an owner who only owns that system and feels obligated to buy any good game on that system or they would have nothing to play. This is often untrue. Especially for platforms which fail to gain any traction at all, it is not unusual for people who bought it early to just forget about it because they have other things to play. It is also not unusual to consider that many might also have sold their systems, with the second hand units languishing unsold in second hand stores.
The sell through userbase for the WiiU in Japan is so small to begin with, so the people who own a WiiU don't really represent any sort of mainstream buying mindset. It's small enough that its entirely possible that every single WiiU owner already owns a 3DS and PS3 and just play games on those platforms instead.
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Mario is getting old?
Prevolition
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Loving these overreactions.
reynal1287
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Wtf Japan.
Interceptor
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This. I just don´t get it.
Mr. Saturn
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Why do you say that? Not a fan of the game?
It's the console not the game.Mario is getting old?
This picture really needs editing. When were ZombiU (a launch game thus before the U was is real trouble) and the Virtual Console ever dubbed saviours of the Wii U? You are better off putting down the weather as that was apparently blamed for bad sales.Obligatory
Rhazer Fusion
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Even if the third party multiplatform games were the best on Wii U, I have a feeling that they still wouldn't of sold. Interest in their type of games just wasn't there at launch and even now. If Mario 3D with amazing reviews is not garnering great sales, I doubt any of those third party games everstood a chance.
Sadly during the Console Warz the G in GAF stands for guffaw.
Spiritreaver
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Well deserved, what a shitty game. Thanks Japan.
Oh wait this isn't the Lightning Returns thread.
Oh wait this isn't the Lightning Returns thread.
MDSLKTR
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This. So ridiculous.
Personally, I'd love it if Nintendo went third party for their console efforts. I'd happily purchase Mario and Pikmin on Steam, but they're not enough for me to get a system for alone.
I really wonder what Iwata and co are thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if am Iwata resignation isn't coming soon if the holidays continue in this vein.
I really wonder what Iwata and co are thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if am Iwata resignation isn't coming soon if the holidays continue in this vein.
God Dayumm
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That will sell bajillions and prove that there is no god
zomgbbqftw
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10%.
Never. Hopefully.
Very low I would think. I would expect we will see another console in 3-4 years.
peanutbutterlatte
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That's personal preference though, not imitable business acumen.
About 10%, which is actually pretty good. Mario games do tend to have longer legs rather than a quick burst so we'll see. I don't have much hope this time unfortunately. Consoles in Japan seem to be a dying breed (outside of GTAV, where apparently 600k is just fine.)
Stop this. Mario is "on the Pokemon scale" if not higher. Just accept that the Wii U is a failure in so many aspects and the reason it's not selling it's because of these aspects, which were caused by disastrous decisions like A) Same hardware as PS360 (which have a combined install base of over 150m), B) Confusing concept/marketing/presentation, C) Wii aftermath/lesson learned, and D) Retarded name.
They had years of advantage thanks to the unexpected Wii success, and they decided to throw it by releasing an old hardware worth nothing more than the first party titles, which is exactly what the Wii was after the initial boom. No game can "save" this console because there's nothing to save. If people buy it they will do it to play the first party exclusives and put it on the shelf, and the amount of these people won't exceed the 5m. Nobody with a PS3 or a 360 can possibly desire a Wii U for anything else than their few first party games, and that's no reason to spend +200$, especially with the PS4 and Xbox One out there, and the casuals have already forgotten the gimmicks and have moved to smartphones and tablets. It's that simple.
Because a game sold bad it means the console doesn't offer real value anymore?
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