Omega124
Challenging Fate
Do people really care about the WiiU? It seems almost as dead in the water as the Cube.
The Gamecube wasn't dead out of the water. It certainly wasn't the leader of the generation, but it was neck to neck with Xbox for second. The Gamecube's best selling game was Melee at 7.09 million, followed by Double Dash at 7 million and Sunshine in 5.9 and Xbox's best selling game, Halo 2 was 8 million, but second place, Halo 1, drops to 5 million, and it quickly just drops from there. The had a solid library in its lifespan in all points, such as Melee, Luigi's Mansion, Metroid Prime 1, Pikmin 1, Super Mario Sunshine, and a port of Sonic Adventure 2 all released in its first year alone.
The WiiU, on the other hand, doesn't have any killer games released for it, first party or otherwise, in its first year. Pikmin 3 looks good, but its not a console seller for me. Besides that, the only other good exclusive that's out yet is New Super Mario Bros. U and its DLC expansion pack, New Super Luigi U. Worldwide, the WiiU had only sold 3.61 million consoles worldwide. To put that in perspective, at 3.07 million copies sold, there's barely more WiiUs sold than the game its going to have a remake of. There are more copies of Melee sold than WiiUs. Even if Gamecube was dead in the water, comparing the WiiU to the Gamecube would be an insult to the latter.