happydolphin on 19 April 2012
| Soleron said: Yeah. I think if you called Malstrom out on it he would change the language. It does read like that. He repeats himself endlessly in blog posts so fully explaining it's about sales as if to a new reader is not something he does any more. I would rephrase it like: NSMB brings in new gamers, expands the gaming audience. SMB inspired a whole generation to go out and make games, leading to almost everything we have today. SM64 games only appeal to the existing gaming audience so are likely to lead to more SM64 games (Banjo-Kazooie) so gaming stays small and doesn't become like music and art and literature and film. |
That clarification helps alot, but even that doesn't really hold water. Check my retort here. It inspired a generation of games, but that generation of games appealed to only a very small fraction of Mario's initial market. So how is the result different from 3D Mario I just don't see it. Actually, 3D Mario launched more success, since games like uncharted sell at least 3M.
