When Wii U launched in the UK last month its software struggled to make an immediate impact on the sales charts, with only Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U making into the all-format top 40 at 26th and 36th respectively. Considering only 40,000 Wii U systems were out there, it didn't appear too distressing.
Sales since then, however, have not improved, with last week's sales chart providing some disappointing reading for Nintendo UK. New Super Mario Bros. U and Nintendo Land have both failed to make it into the most recent top 40. Of course there are still fewer Wii U consoles out on the market right now than other consoles, but Nintendo will hope this improves in the coming months.
The Nintendo Switch is potentially nearing its lifespan, and several Wii U games haven't found their way over as ports yet.
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.
They should remake Starfox to the switch 2. Very beautiful game during gamecube days.
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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Uh oh...
They havnt even named many 1st party exclusives for 2013...
A Wii U Pokemon game would set the charts on fire..
1st gen Pokemon though.. please.
No surprise there then.
I own a Wii U and I'm in the UK. I can tell you the exact reason these games are struggling; price. I have 4 games but I refuse to pay £49.99 for multiplatform games that cost £20 on PS3 and 360. It's an absolute joke and they need to slash the price of software quickly to get some momentum.
Could be because some of the big games on release day were older games that were selling at full price, and many people that were interested in them may have already played them. Zombie U is more of a hardcore game, so may not appeal to any casuals that pick up the system. Mario is Mario so no doubt it sold well, and NintendoLand was bundled with a lot of systems(although not a majority of them. They had some other good games in there, but they weren't the kind that receive widespread recognition(Epic Mickey, Scribblenauts). I don't know about assassins creed, it may have taken a hit because of no achievement system in place. The rest of the games were party/casual stuff that doesn't appeal to the hardcore, and were what I would consider over-priced for what they were.
Not looking good ;)