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.
Game Rant chats with the creator of No More Heroes about who he would like to see play the role of Travis Touchdown in a live-action adaptation.
Actually Ryan Gosling makes a ton of sense.
Edit: If this can be done in a Scott Pilgrim movie kind of way that would be dope.
Super Mario Maker's last level has been beaten, after Trimming the Herbs was revealed to be totally bogus.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "With Tears of the Kingdom being so recent and Nintendo’s next system likely coming soon, it’s safe to say we won’t be looking at another big Zelda launch title this around and it’ll likely be years before any ruminations of the next game start to surface, but in the meantime we can always speculate. Breath of the Wild changed things for the series by multiplying its popularity manyfold, so it would seem only logical that the franchise will continue along the path Breath of the Wild started, however a look at the series’ history shows it might not be as simple as that. So, let’s take a look at what the future of this legendary series might have in store for us, blending in equal parts qualified theorizing and wishful thinking."
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 ;)