Reacting to last night's release of NPD sales data for the US market in December, Cowen said in a research note: "Software sales for the Wii U remained well behind launch levels for the original Wii and GameCube in December.
"Totals for the November-December period were -43% lower than software sales for the Wii and -50% lower than those for the GameCube."
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
This article leaves out Nintendo's most controversial game to date devils Third.
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.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.
It's probably the launch price, as well as the confusion caused over those who still don't know the difference between the Wii and the Wii U (read: casual gamers). Hopefully the system will pull a 3DS, and sales will pick up.
...sometimes much longer to play a game after you plug it in, because of updates, etc.
Then there's one good game and playing with the gamepad isn't much fun if you're using it for multiplayer or as my wife said, "So, my job to put things in the world so other people can have fun? That's a job. I don't want a job, I want to fucking play, too!" lol
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Also, it's hard to sell a lot of games if you've just passed a million consoles sold. That's what the games on Invisible Walls said anything.
I really should hurry up on my Zelda & Metroid HD...
then we will kick some butt!
WTG! SONYNTENDO FTW!
Dam what a horrible day for nintendo
This is entirely Nintendos fault for pushing its own games back in order to make bad ports look more appealing.
Can't say whether is unfortunate or not, but do to their bad marketing, only harcore gamers know about the console and thus are the only ones who have bought it. They can recognize the bad games fromn the good so those games are not going to sell.
All they need to to do is start releasing more games that people actually want to play. There is no problem with the console itself and people really don't care about the price because its the PS3 and 360 were above that for a long time and they still sold.
This is all a matter of whether or not the games people want are on the console.
Making those bad ports the exact same price as brand new PS3/360 games certainly didn't help either.