No other Skylanders titles made it to Japan afterward.
WIIU SPLATOON ISO JPN SERIES
Although gamers who played the Wii U version seemed to enjoy it (some even saying it’s the definitive version of the game), the series completely and utterly bombed. Publishing duties in Japan went to Square Enix, who, in their infinite wisdom, decided to sell the game only at Toys “R” Us locations throughout the country. There’s probably a good, yet somewhat complicated reason for that. Sales for the game were poor - it didn’t even chart during its first week at retail on any platform. Gamers that picked up this version could not only play the game via Off-TV Play but could also use the Gamepad to access a variety of menus, view statistics and play the lock puzzle mini-games. Interestingly enough, Japan saw a release of the game on the Wii U with some enhanced features. Similarly, the game saw release on the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Playstation 3 and was scheduled to come out on the Xbox 360 (that was nixed likely due to poor performance of the platform in Japan). This is The Famicast’s list of the Top Wii U Japan Only TitlesĬoming to Japanese shores nearly two years (July 2013) after releasing in the West, the first entry in the Skylanders series finally made its way over to Japan. It’s definitely a smaller list than what you would find on previous platforms like the Wii or GameCube, but there still were some titles that the West certainly missed out on, for better or worse. While there are quite a few games that are seeing new life on the Switch, there are some games on the Wii U that never even saw life outside of Japan.
Nintendoland, Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World, Splatoon, Mario Maker, the HD Zelda remakes, Captain Toad, The Wonderful 101, Xenoblade Chronicles X…the list goes on.
But, that doesn’t mean that the Wii U was without some awesome games. For a multitude of reasons, people just didn’t flock to the system like they did with the Wii before it, leaving system sales and general interest in the device in the trash. The Wii U was definitely one of the biggest flops in Nintendo’s long and storied history in video games.
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