Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Hangs Onto Second Place In UK Charts

Wii u games are gold when marketed right

Impressive and glad its selling well. However, not surprising as retail releases have been thin on the ground recently.

@1UP_MARIO Wii U titles are gold when released on a console people care about.

@kobashi100 people buy consoles if it has good games too

DKC TF was sold out on Amazon UK leading up to its release so looks like there was a lot of people who couldn't get it the first week.

Either way the game is fantastic and deserves the sales!

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I don't know how much money Nintendo dumped into Labo - I hope it wasn't too much - but I can't say I am surprised. I can tell you, I haven't heard a single one of my students mention Labo and I teach in Japan. I did not expect it to do very well. At best it seemed like a gimmick to appeal to parents who want to buy their kid a game that seems mildly educational. Or for parents who don't feel comfortable with their kids playing "violent" games. The key being, it seemed like a game parents would buy for kids. Not something many kids would ask for.

@Heavyarms55 yeah, personally I think it’s a decent product for the niche that it’s for(not for me). Hopefully it was thought of as a niche product in its production budget and is at least making some profit. If Nintendo really thought this was gonna be the ‘next big thing’ then I’d be surprised

@Fandabidozi both great consoles with great library of gsmes

@electrolite77 thanks. Worded much better 👍🏻

Played Tropical Freeze, it really did deserve those sales and i am glad that it is getting the reception it deserved.

So how is God of War? I was a fan, though i think the formula got old and Krato just seemed to never change, always being that angry god.

@Heavyarms55 I was not keen on it personally but my son was absolutely adamant he wanted that Robot Kit, he's been so excited for weeks, and we started it weekend past and had a great time. We are halfway through, Step 4 of 8 and he's buzzing.

I think Labo will pick up again around Christmas or when they drop a cool new Nintendo themed set that works with Garage. As a kid I only got educational play sets (like LEGO Mindstorms) at Christmas or a birthday.

I still play, build and work with my Variety kit and I don't agree it isn't educational or fun, people have no idea how awesome Labo is until they get their hands on it (and that is a kinda a problem but Nintendo can fix that.) At least they are still marketing it cause I see Labo commercials all the time.

People buy great games.

DKC Tropical Freeze is an immaculate game. Word of mouth is selling it in droves. Enough people regard it as one of the best (if not the best) 2D platformers of all time. And people are in tune to that.

Hopefully they will cancel any other cardboard trash

Tropical Freeze Switch sales only dropped 32% over its 2nd week, which is an unusually small 1st-to-2nd week sales decline, especially for a port of a 2D sidescroller.

In fact, Tropical Freeze on Switch sold more during its 2nd week than Tropical Freeze on Wii U sold during its launch week.

Rather than be like "Oh another Wii U port", maybe we should look forward to the fact that the game being a hot seller might mean another DKCR style game will be put into production sooner rather than later....

.....that or a HD port of Returns., XD

lol labo

@gatorboi352 Nothing on DKC there?

"It's a little worrying that Donkey Kong's re-heated adventure has sold more copies than both Nintendo Labo packs combined, though"

If the message is "make more Donkey Kong instead of stuff like Labo", I'd say it's the exact opposite of worrying.

@YummyHappyPills i mean what else are switch owners going to buy? Labo?

@ricklongo I'm pretty sure another DK game at this juncture would not be received very well among switch owners. Just my take though.