Spørsmålet har dukket opp jevnlig det siste året. Vil storspillene Mario Kart 8 (nå ute), Super Smash Bros for Wii U (4. kvartal i år) og The Legend of Zelda Wii U (tidligst i 2015 - arbeidstittel) være nok til å redde Nintendos Wii U-konsoll? Ifølge Scott Moffitt, som riktig nok jobber for Nintendo, er svaret åpenbart ja:
- As I look at what we have coming this holiday, now with Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros, plus the innovation of Amiibo, I think we are right at that tipping point where we have a lot of great content that is about to be released for that platform that's going to tempt gamers into buying the system. From the comments I'm reading online, and following gamers' comments, I think there are a lot of people that are going to have a hard time resisting buying a Wii U once Smash Bros comes out. I think that's going to be a major hardware driver for us. So that's the narrative we hope that plays out and that I think we are starting to see play out, kommenterer Moffitt til Games Industry.
At Nintendo var selskapet som ble suverent mest diskutert på sosiale medier under E3 forrige uke, kan tyde på at Moffitt er inne på noe her. Dessuten påpeker han at 3DS-salget gikk tungt frem til de kuttet prisen, og nå er den bærbare konsollen deres en gigantsuksess:
- We had the price cut in August [2011], and then we had Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, which really drove sales that first holiday, and on 3DS we haven't looked back, so we've had momentum ever since that first holiday and we've got now 260 some games in the library and some of the best, most highest rated, most highest quality content we've ever had on that platform. Everything we launched seems to do above forecast and surprises us on the positive side, avslutter Moffitt.
Tror du Wii U vil se samme oppsving som 3DS, eller gambler Nintendo for mye på effekten Smash Bros vil ha på salget?