Wii Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I think regardless of sales Ubisoft are gone. These batch of games are their swan song on the current platforms before switching over to PS4/XBOX1. Yes Rayman sold better on Wii U in week 1 but quickly disappeared from the charts. The 360 version charted for longer in the top 40 and I'd say has sold more. Rayman Legends and Sonic Racing Transformed are the only 2 games I can think of off the top of my head that were released at the same time as the other versions and were the better than the others. Everything else has been botched in some way or other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liger05 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Splinter cell sales were shocking and I don't expect Assassins Creed or watchdogs to do much better. Rayman did as well as expected, those games always bomb but I think the sales of Rayman show there is an audience for certain games on wii u. Last week Rayman still had the highest percentage of sales on wii u. Considering the far lower install base it's done decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serebii Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I think regardless of sales Ubisoft are gone. These batch of games are their swan song on the current platforms before switching over to PS4/XBOX1. Yes Rayman sold better on Wii U in week 1 but quickly disappeared from the charts. The 360 version charted for longer in the top 40 and I'd say has sold more. Rayman Legends and Sonic Racing Transformed are the only 2 games I can think of off the top of my head that were released at the same time as the other versions and were the better than the others. Everything else has been botched in some way or other. Regardless of sales? Is that not contrary to what is being said? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wii Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Regardless of sales? Is that not contrary to what is being said? As I said regardless of sales I believe they'll be gone. I don't think sales will be good anyway and that's going to be their excuse to move on to pastures new. This is just the transition phase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmsly Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) @Emi1yRogers just posted. Splinter Cell Wii U is a sales disaster both retail and digital. NPD's report about Blacklist selling less than 5,000 in retail is spot on. Edited September 29, 2013 by Helmsly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I feel like ive got a rare collectors item by being an owner of Splinter Cell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fused King Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I'd say there's a very select market for 3rd party games on NINTENDO systems. NINTENDO should just create their own 3rd Parties, because most of those that exist today have their succes on the Playstation or the XBox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liger05 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I'd say there's a very select market for 3rd party games on NINTENDO systems. NINTENDO should just create their own 3rd Parties, because most of those that exist today have their succes on the Playstation or the XBox. Said this for ages. Nintendo have to purchase studios or get into agreements with studios to develop games for them. Many third party games failed commercially on wii and now wii u and I think it's down to Nintendo to cultivate the Nintendo audience so they start seeing beyond games which have Mario, zelda or donkey Kong in them. They have to start getting the Nintendo audience accustomed to a different genre of game that Nintendo typically develop. Under 5k for splinter cell in the US is so bad. Pretty unbelievable that it sold so few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh64 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 5000? Holy shit. I thought we'd never go lower than the Gamecube days but this really is something. All year I kept thinking Nintendo would have a dramatic 3DS-like turn around but it's going to take a LOT to save the Wii U. And I don't buy the advertising thing. Nintendo had plenty of launch titles they could have advertised all year, Nintendo Land and NSMU for example, and could have pushed Pikmin 3 and 101 in the Summer. It really does feel as though they're not even trying anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostOverThere Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Yeah, I got it from Dick Smith when they were doing their fire sale. And man, Splinter Cell did 5000 in the US? Suddenly getting flash backs from 3rd party Wii game sales. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liger05 Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Yeah, I got it from Dick Smith when they were doing their fire sale. And man, Splinter Cell did 5000 in the US? Suddenly getting flash backs from 3rd party Wii game sales. Ugh. Australia is even worse than the UK then considering they are not restocking wii u products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamba Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 5000? Holy shit. I thought we'd never go lower than the Gamecube days but this really is something. All year I kept thinking Nintendo would have a dramatic 3DS-like turn around but it's going to take a LOT to save the Wii U. And I don't buy the advertising thing. Nintendo had plenty of launch titles they could have advertised all year, Nintendo Land and NSMU for example, and could have pushed Pikmin 3 and 101 in the Summer. It really does feel as though they're not even trying anymore. In the UK particularly, the people that did such a good job of advertising the Wii and the DS aren't involved anymore. Plus I remember reading somewhere that Nintendo was saving it's budget for Xmas where it will be used more effectively (read drowned out by xb1 and ps4 noise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ike Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Grain of salt time, Em1ly Rogers is back. From what I hear there is a firmware update for Wii U this week. Most likely Monday. I don't know everything in update so don't overhype it. — Emily Rogers (@Emi1yRogers) September 29, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokong Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I feel like I've been missing something.... who is this Emily Rogers that ye keep quoting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzybee Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 So I played rock band the other night and the microphone seemed not to work properly, I remembered hearing about this at launch, but wondered what the situation is. Do they simply not work on the Wii u and I have to get a new mic? In mild urgency as karaoke is coming out this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wii Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I feel like I've been missing something.... who is this Emily Rogers that ye keep quoting? I think she's a games journalist and she's privy to a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes. She's usually spot on with her rumours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f00had Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 So I played rock band the other night and the microphone seemed not to work properly, I remembered hearing about this at launch, but wondered what the situation is. Do they simply not work on the Wii u and I have to get a new mic? In mild urgency as karaoke is coming out this week. No idea about Rock Band but you can use the Wii U Gamepad for Karaoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzybee Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 No idea about Rock Band but you can use the Wii U Gamepad for Karaoke I know you can, but I don't want to not quite same not singing with a mic. I think Wii mics will be fine actually, it's just Wii music games on the Wii u that is the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I feel like I've been missing something.... who is this Emily Rogers that ye keep quoting? In addition to what Wii said she writes a lot of articles for Not Enough Shaders that I think are actually really quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzybee Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Yeah shes very good, great writer, very close to loads of indie developers (where she probably gets info) antics pretty much always right in what she says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcubed Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Not that the word of Emily Rogers makes this any more or less likely (she misses as much as she hits really - still waiting on YouTube 3DS!), but I do reckon that the big Autumn system update is indeed due this week. All the signs point towards it (extended maintainence, Nintendo Direct due any time from this week onwards - bolstered further by the mysterious appearance of the specially themed Mario AR Photo App eShop cards on Amazon last week, Wind Waker HD's retail release happening this week in the US and EU) and they did actually say that the update would be due around the end of September/early October, so it would actually be right on schedule if it indeed happened this week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_rock Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Is this system update something big? Does it add more things other than some speed improvements? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcubed Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Is this system update something big? Does it add more things other than some speed improvements? Nothing else has been officially announced but it'll almost certainly include the Wii U system transfer feature that they said would be coming in a future update. Folders are also pretty likely (considering how hard they're pushing digital) and it'll almost certainly herald the start of N64 & GBA VC games (as the Spring update began the NES & SNES VC lineup). But nothing is set in stone other than a speed improvement. Those are just educated guesses (and lord knows if anything else is planned for this one...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fused King Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I'm guessing an Advance Wars WiiU bundle will be upon us soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostOverThere Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Hmm, when do we think the update will land? Surely today's planned maintenance will just prep the system for it, and then the update itself will land, what, Wednesday/Thursday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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