Michael De Sua:
In an interview with CNET, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime revealed that the Nintendo Wii U sold upwards of 400,000 units during its launch week and that it is pretty much entirely sold out of retail. This must be promising news for Nintendo as they have sold everything they produced for the first week, but how does this compare to the first week sales of other consoles in North America?
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I think it's better to leave games like AC: Amiibo Festival and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash forgotten on the Wii U. Best case, they are mediocre games; worse case, they are very bad. It was a dark time for the Wii U, and the first only exists to sell Amiibo cards, whereas the second was put together in a couple of months with a shoestring budget, and it shows.
The rest of the list does have some really cool games, though. I would love to see a remake of Star Fox Zero with decent controls, and Xenoblade X doesn't require that much modification to work.
Same as Paper Mario color splash. One of the best wiiu games and getting even better with dual screen. Same reason why i prefer Splatoon 1
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I personally found the cover system really fun in that one compared to at the time most fps games completely lacking one.
Kirby is always ignored or forgotten by people, so good to see it mentioned here.
Play Kirby Canvas Curse on DS, and then play Rainbow Curse on Wii U, they're really fun and unique 'platformers' without any actual jumping.
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It sold out of stock and people are comparing it. Why compare it? If it's sold out then it shouldn't be compared to anything else since it can't exceed X amount of units sold due to, y'know selling out.
i hope PS4 will be priced like Wii U from day one because i'm not ready to pay 600€ like i did in 07.
We can't predict how the Wii u will be doing in the future from these numbers alone.
The gamcube in the first week sold 500000 unit in the first week but it lifetime sales were very miserable.
The ps3/Xbox 360 sold about 400000 unit in the first week and both going strong over the 70 million mark.
The desperation of buyers of the Wii who couldn't get one is nowhere to be found for the WiiU.
That's the point. And it's not sold out. That's lies. I can go right now to my local Walmart. Their right behind the glass.
Reggie says that wii sold 300k units first week...lies.
It was 600k. So WiiU is 200k behind.
Reggie says blops2 is better looking on the WiiU.
Lies....screen tearing, 8fps is single player, color saturation (subjective), AA.....looks no better than 360; and under performs big time compared to 360.
wii u will not be anywhere near as successful as wii.. It will prolly sell like N64 did