To be fair the PS3 version was/is assmilk so some (DMC/Kamiya/Cuhrayzee!) fans probably just skipped out on it altogether, or bought it when it was cheap/second hand.
The Wii U situation is in the middle between these two posts. Nintendo fucked up with this thing, and did it in an enviroment that really wants them to fail ( “Nintendo needs to go 3rd party” stuff), so they almost can’t do good no matter what. As successful as the 3DS is, publishers here in the U.S. are still shunning it.
The games are finally starting to come out and I wouldn’t feel bad about dropping the dough on it now, to play W101 and Sonic, to be honest. Those two games could keep me more than entertained for the money now, and I’d still have Bayo2, Mario 3D World, X, Smash and Puyo Puyo x Tetris come out.
I know people have a rule of " This # of games to come out before I buy a system", which is good but I don’t need to buy them all at the same time. I’d rather have no more than 2 come out with others confimed in the pipline. Wii U does that. I’m sure the twins will have games around this time next year that make me and other like minded people take notice, especially with the extra stuff sorted out, not to mention launch problems that Sony and MS are known for.
Bayo2 would’ve bombed on the twins as well, otherwise Sony and MS would’ve picked it up.
Your post was kinda hidden in there so I’m going to assume your post begins with ‘yeah not surprised’. Smash is next projected next year. Exactly when? Don’t know…If I was to take a guess I’d poise the game to be a later half of the year game…We don’t even know what Nintendo plan for releases next year are yet aside from DK in February. That leaves Bayo 2, X, Smash, Zelda Wii U, Mario Kart 8, Yarn Yoshi, and Fire Emblem X Shin Megami with possible releases for next year at some point…and this isn’t including whatever else they probably aren’t telling us they have cooking. Out of all that stuff if I were them I’d probably put Smash during the holiday season.
The funny thing about Rayman is that they released it multiplatform in an attempt to recoup potential losses on Wii U and as great as the game is it still sold well under expectations. They spent the time and money to develop 3 more versions of the game over the course of what…7 months? For all we know that game could have been a system seller during a period where there weren’t that many games coming out and they wouldn’t have had to build 3 more copies of the game but nope…and then they released it within a couple of weeks of GTA. Wii U had nothing at all to do with that.
I’ve heard there’s blood in the water, the wiiu is currently the worst selling console of all time (for the amount of time it’s been released) and while people are saying that first party nintendo games will save it, the brightest shining star–smash–is already tarnished.
The casuals are very upset at the announcement of a smaller roster than brawl and the story mode won’t feature the same cinematic flair.
I’m not really a smash bros fan but my guess is that the smaller roster means Smash Wii U is going to be a high quality game.
that’s all that matters to me, people debating about commercial success is kind of pointless. the reason we have the games we have today is because of the CONSUMERS you people praise games that aren’t worthy of being praised because you fall for those stupid psychological hooks. games won’t change until people will change so have fun complaining
They gonna buy it anyway. People buy Smash to pit their favorite Nintendo characters against each other. Who cares if it won’t have a story mode? The series never had a story anyway.
As for the roster, It could use some fat trimming. There’s no need to have characters like pokemon trainer around.