Email: Wii U software selling significantly worse than Gamecube software

This is quite shocking.

 

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/386207/wii-u-game-sales-far-behind-launch-levels-for-gamecube-and-wii/

 

50% lower than Gamecube software in its first December! Down 43% on Wii’s first December. 

 

But wait. Doesn’t Wii have a 2D Mario game? The Gamecube and Wii did not have 2D Mario games. Help me make sense of this Malstrom! Is 2D Mario simply not important anymore? *shock/horror*

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Just look at December 2009 NPD to see the influence of 2d Mario. Enough said.

No macro economic analysis = worthless. It’s like comparing a product’s sales from the 1930s to the late 1920s.

When one did a macro economic analysis of the game industry pre 7th generation, you find that there was no true growth in the game industry. The ‘growth’ was population growth, multiple console ownership, and the same gamers buying more games. This is why people did not see the Wii coming until it is too late.

What no one is pointing out is that EVERYTHING is down. This doesn’t excuse the Wii U (it’s doing bad in Japan just as the 3DS did at launch). This is what Nintendo gets for making a Xbox 360, PS3 type console during an economic depression. A 2d Mario is not a panacea, especially not one half assed on aesthetic and aural resources like NSMB U. If you scratch behind the data, you’d find that NSMB U is the only thing that is selling the Wii U at the moment. Everything else is bombing. This is why I was hoping a 3d Mario would launch with the Wii U so the bomba would be universal (there is no data to suggest 3d Mario sells hardware outside the NA N64 launch), and we can wipe away the N64/Gamecube era forever. As expected, jokers like yourself are trying to pin the blame on 2d Mario which sounds desperate.

Despite the same brand, the Wii U was designed around the hardcore. Even Nintendo Land using Nintendo IPs is more for the hardcore (which is why Nintendo stripped the IPs out of games like Wii Sports and Wii Fit).

The Wii U is philosophically an anti-Wii, it is the opposite of the Wii in nearly every way. The Wii U’s demise is the hardcore’s demise. The console was designed for them after all.

I’m laughing as I watch the hardcore cheer Wii U’s decline. They don’t see the writing on the wall.